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Are fig rolls and jelly babies all that is needed, washed down just with water??
jelly babies 😀
pork pie
Trail mix, mine is usually nuts, raisons, currants, smarties, jelly totts etc
Clif shot blocs are lovely.
jelly babies, choc chip elevenses, bananas, oat grain bars,
Cup of hot soup on endurance events, anyhting but rolls i find
Peanut butter and bananas, pureed up and on wholegrain bread.
Torq bars, torq gels and torq drink.
Nuun good aswell, but it has no carbs.
depends on how long hard you riding, you need to mix low GI and hi GI foods togeather.
Jamaica ginger cake
maxim bars
flapjacks, trail mix, chocolate, seasame seed bars,jelly sweets...for some reason I eat loads on a MTB ride yet dont drink that much and eat almost nothing on a road bike and drink loads.
tangfastics, flapjack, chocolate bars, beer.
mmmmmm Jamaican ginger cake and pork pies.
mmmmmm Jamaican ginger cake and pork pies.
That works for me!!
Jelly beans, bananas and granola bars get me through. Jelly belly jelly beans to be precise - not the sports ones though, they are disgustingly sweet and expensive!
You need some salt somewhere and some long acting and some short acing sugars as well
Half a kilo of jelly babies was good yesterday tho. Glucose mainly with a bit of gelatine and traces of other stuff
I had a handful of tangfastics before my last ride at Cannock, I was riding like I was on rocket fuel. Sadly forgot to take the bag with me so I ran out of energy quite quickly and didn't have any sweets to top me up again 🙁
So my vote goes to tangfastics 🙂
Malt loaf or fig rolls.
Tangfastics are just to sweet for me they make me feel sick.
Gatthia mix from local health food shop
was getting worried no other malt loaf enthusiasts for a while there
chocolate raisins?
good old bananas
whatever isotonic powder is on offer and doesn't make me puke
Sun dried bananas, the soft ones that look like cat poo's!
I find salted cashews the best way to take on salt on a long ride.
Fig rolls and fruit jellies are good.
Never tried malt loaf, but every time I'm on a ride and I see someone else eating it, I think "I'll have to remember to bring some next time".
bananas and water.
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Haribo's
Flapjack
Malt loaf
Fig rolls, elevenses, gel pouch for the end of the ride SIS go ( this time of year) in the bladder
Rig rolls, Flapjack, Malt Loaf, prefere all that along with haribo and jelly badies for emergencies rather than energy bars.
I once rode with a chap (the big Mr O) who drank warm vimto from a thermos on chilly winter rides. Loveley
Pasties and beer.
<probably explains why I'm not fast - but I'm happy!>
Bananas, Haribo and Apple/Blackcurrant Go bars
Elevenses and/or nutrigrain breakfast bars. Peanut butter and jam sandwiches if I'm short on time. 'One cup' Allbran fruit loaf if I plan ahead.
Warburtons do a hot cross bun loaf -
make little sarnies with lemon curd in it. deee..lish.
harvest bars work for me and elevenses
Soreen's new [url= http://www.soreen.com/our-products/go-bar.html ]Go bars[/url] got me all the way along the South Downs Way. 143 calories in each one.
Wine Gums
Cereal bars if I have no malt loaf, malt loaf at all other times.
mmmmmmmm malt loaf.
Another vote for Nakd bars.
Although I can just imagine someone working in an apple juice factory who has spent his life shovelling the left over pulp in to skips, suddenly saying one day "Hey, why don't we cut this stuff in to little bars and sell them for £1 each?"
Pretty much any combination of the above barring the kind of stuff the LBS sells. I did once take a banana and peanut energy sandwich with me. Didn't do it again as it was minging.
Pan bagnat 😀
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High5 4:1 energy source is a great energy/protein drink for during rides - contains electrolytes too.
Rhodiola Rosea - tablets/capsules - I find this stuff really helps with strength and recovery time .... it has various uses, but recovery from intense exercise is good!! [various places to buy it on-line or health stores & google search the benefits too if it helps]
Fig rolls, Jelly babies, Malt loaf, Yorkshire brack plus at the moment salty vimto................................... the lasts not that nice really but seems to work
Jamaica Ginger cake, malt loaf, haribos and beef jerky.
Not all at once mind
I've migrated to home-made flapjacks. Can share my recipe if anyone's interested, I've just about got it 'right' now.
speed?
Jaffa cakes and I always try to ensure we pass by the burger van that sells Ostrich burgers at about lunch time.
High protein, low in fat full of energy mmmm Ostrich.