http://www.32sixteen.com/2012/04/21/lejog-ride-entry-11-april-2012/

http://www.32sixteen.com/2012/04/21/lejog-ride-entry-89-april-2012/

Looks like the negative reviews on the App store are also starting to get through.

Mine got so bad the numbness started to go up the palm and into my wrist

Yeah. Still, it has an upside. Feels like someone else giving me w*nk 😉

Also, e

samuri +10

Overnight stops you can plug into Google Earth or into the Google Maps search bar.

http://www.32sixteen.com/wp-content/uploads/LEJOG.kml

That’s interesting happy because that’s my symptoms exactly. Will book in to see docs

Slices of smoked and raw salmon.

Five cheese quiche with mash, beans and rocket.

Tarte au Citron with creme fraiche.

Female Body Geometry gloves have just a little more padding than the mens. If you can fit them they’re worth using instead. The extra padding seems to be below the fingers which means you carry more weighton your palm and less on your ulnar nerve.

I speak from bitter experience. If you do lose feeling in your little/ring fingers life gets disproportionately harder.

I’ll throw a stick to the stars for you tonight.

You can review the app without downloading I believe.

To be honest, I don’t want a transition area, I want to be able pull up track side and be serviced on the course.

Once I’d gotten over my fnarr fnarr moment, this ^^^^

And the bit about toilets.

Mat inside for me. 3/4 length multimat and Rab Storm

I still get nervous twenty years on.

If you just want choc some petrol stations are doing two for £1.20 on Mars Duo/Snickers Duo/Bounty triple at the moment.

EBBs add weight and squeak. IMO. YMMV. obviously. Horrid things.

option 3 – swinger dropout. vertical, but swings for chain tension.

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http://www.32sixteen.com/2012/04/20/lejog-ride-entry-7-april-2012/

run what you brung will be fine

it will hurt

it’s addictive

To add – check out the diet section in this…

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0941950131

I used to use Torq products myself. The older I get and the more experience I have on endurance rides the more I think that the old way was better.

Am I alone is finding any kind of energy bar (for me SIS/Cliff mainly) very difficult to consume mid event?

No. Thats why I’ve stopped using them for longer (>12 hour) rides. Now I eat what my body craves, which is invariably savoury and high protein and/or fat. Tuna or egg mayo, chicken, chorizo, cheese, nuts… Oddest one was yoghurt. I suffer less bloat, less sore mouth (drinking/eating too much sweet stuff destroys the lining, gives me a sore tongue, and kills taste), but best of all less energy peaks/troughs.

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Until I broke the Lemond travelling over a car bonnet.

25mph? We had it up to 54mph on the North York Moors during a Polaris challenge.

I can see the logic of that, but I find breakfast and an evening meal a psychological boost

Quite agree, especially about the evening meal. I found an evening meal would set me up mentally for another 5 or 6 hours riding.

More on bearings…

http://m.bikeradar.com/road/gear/article/saint-gobain-bearings-from-the-future-33388/

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Polaris, 1999?

“cables that don’t fray”

dab of superglue after cutting

Bottom brackets. They used to last for years. Now they last for months. (Or less.)

+1

Im still waiting to find the perfect multi-tool.

That’s a Chain Pup with a set of proper allen keys instead of the silly welded affair it came with.

Suspension linkage bearings.

As a Turner owner I don’t get this one… Please explain. Oh, bearings. Not bushings. 😉

I was talking to shaggy, endurance rider par excellence the other day about food for long (100-200 mile) stretches of trail with no chance of restocking. I’d been working the supplies I carried on my LEJOG trip in terms of calories per pence as I was on a fixed budget per day. Shaggy thinks of food in terms of calorie density, not just how much it weighs, but how much space it takes up.

Dried carbs, are pretty shit on this count as you only get 4 calories per gram, and each gram takes up quite a bit of space. Also factor in that you need to carry or find and filter (water filter takes bulk and weight) water to cook them, and also to carry a stove and fuel to heat the water. Also this all takes time. Stop, unpack, find and filter water (if necessary), boil water, cook pasta/rice, eat, clean pans, repack, get going again.

Turns out my LEJOG diet was closely matching that shaggy was looking at for his long distance races.

For the same calories per gram as dried carbs I was carrying 200g lumps of Cathedral city cheese, 806 calories (403/100g). Entirely protein and fat and no carbs (even if not iDave friendly). It takes up less space than the same room of rice/pasta, needs no water, needs no heating, and can be eaten without stopping.

200g of chorizo provided me with even more energy density at 500 calories per 100g chunk. Again, protein and fat and no carbs. Again no need to carry water/filter/fuel/stove and can be eaten without stopping.

My last snack was 100g bags of peanuts, which are even more energy dense, over 500 calories per 100g, again no carbs.

And before anyone says you need carbs on long rides those three items above and a fry up breakfast sustained me for 10 hours and almost 90 miles on the last day of my LEJOG into a howling northerly gale (7mph pedalling on the downhills), without bonking, cramps, or the bloating that I’ve suffered when I’ve used carbs for fuel in 12/24 hour races.

On the one day I made the mistake of buying tiffin as a ride snack I bonked after just 30 miles and only recovered after I’d had a KFC.

It will take me a while to add each ride entry, but here’s the prelude

http://www.32sixteen.com/2012/04/18/lejog-ride-entry-5-6april-2012/

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Unfortunate food names.

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Fat is long chain molecule & will slow down your uptake of carbs. Avoid anything with more than 6% fat if you want good carb absorption.

carb absorption does not equal energy absorption.

it is a means to it. it is not the only means. it should not be considered as the end goal.

the best way of achieving the end goal depends on the intensity and duration if exercise, hence my request for clarification. On a steady endurance ride you want slow energy release from your food to sustain you instead of hit/crash of simple carbs. (IIRC simple carbs cause insulin spikes that cause you to start creating glycogen instead of using the energy).

Also, depending on how long you’ll be riding …

I did caveat it.

Also, I would recommend against carrying anything so heavy as food on your back. In your seat pack or bar bag is good, in a frame bag would be better.

Also, thanks to miketually for expanding on my credentials 🙂

974 miles singlespeed, solo, unsupported, 8 days 10 hours. 16 hours a day from wheels rolling to settling down for the night.

Also, depending on how long you’ll be riding, fresh salmon fillets (pack with ice) from nearest fishmonger and some soy sauce for bivvy sushi. I did this in Cornwall on my LEJOG.

Second chorizo.

Up in Caithness this year they appear to be clear.

I always used to chortle at Booker Fitch

+1 for choclate bars containing fat which is rubbish during exercise.

That statement needs to be qualified by stating what level of exercise, intensity and duration. Otherwise it’s just bollocks. You may quote your experiences, I could quote mine that exactly contradict it. Peer reviewed scientific sources to back it up please.

HT. SS HT. FS. FS Tandem. Chopper.

All my 700c bikes got broken. SS, geared, CX.