Twilkes
Guru
Did 47 miles today, about 3 1/4 hours riding time, and slotted in a 50 minute hill walk up and down Conic Hill near Loch Lomond in the middle.
I had as big a smoothie as I could handle around 7.15am (oats, banana, frozen raspberries, crystalised ginger, skimmed milk) and ate nothing solid for the rest of the trip.
I loaded up on water before I left, and then got through 2.5 litres of apple juice/water mix, probably half of which was apple juice. It seemed to do the job, as the times I was flagging I stopped and drank about 300mls and 5-10 minutes later I was racing away, even up hills that 10 minutes before I was struggling with. I never felt dehydrated at any point.
But should I be balancing the sugar with something else? That's about 500 calories, with around 120 grams of sugar.
I feel fine, but wondered if there was something I could change so that I didn't have those dips where it felt like my legs were getting tired. I like the idea of drinking the calories rather than eating them, hence the breakfast smoothie.
I had as big a smoothie as I could handle around 7.15am (oats, banana, frozen raspberries, crystalised ginger, skimmed milk) and ate nothing solid for the rest of the trip.
I loaded up on water before I left, and then got through 2.5 litres of apple juice/water mix, probably half of which was apple juice. It seemed to do the job, as the times I was flagging I stopped and drank about 300mls and 5-10 minutes later I was racing away, even up hills that 10 minutes before I was struggling with. I never felt dehydrated at any point.
But should I be balancing the sugar with something else? That's about 500 calories, with around 120 grams of sugar.
I feel fine, but wondered if there was something I could change so that I didn't have those dips where it felt like my legs were getting tired. I like the idea of drinking the calories rather than eating them, hence the breakfast smoothie.