Team BKool CycleChat

[Perky77]

Now I have a gel or banana or flapjack available when I do these longer sessions. Lying on your back on the floor unable to get up or even roll over is not somewhere I want to go again

Great tip, thanks @theboxers

 

[Whorty]

I forgot to have some food ready - HID threw me a bag of Harribo with an hour to go.

Only once ever had food during a ride, and that was when I did bonnette. An over ripe banana. My keep one next to me again today. Felt weird eating and cycling but needs must!

 

[bobinski]

I have a banana 30 min before any ride over 40 min, esp if I have done a warm up of 20 or more minutes, and then have a gel or jelly babies at 1 every 10-15 minutes thereafter. That's on basis energy reserves will begin to deplete at about 7-800 calories lost and need to keep energy up. Also, have been known to have a swig or two of chocolate milk I keep for post ride recovery in pref to a gel.

 

[theboxers]

I jelly babies at 1 every 10-15 minutes thereafter.

I think, even, I would have trouble eating one of these every 15 minutex
https://www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/giant-jelly-baby

 

[bobinski]

I think, even, I would have trouble eating one of these every 15 minutex
https://www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/giant-jelly-baby

That is QUITE disturbing!

 

[theboxers]

Right I'm set. 14:50 is my warm-up start time. 15:00 is the stage start time. With the warm down run back down Ventoux I hope to be finished by 18:00. We shall see.



Edit to add.

After yesterday my target is to stay above 200 bkool watts. Unlikely but I'll try.

 

[Whorty]

I have a banana 30 min before any ride over 40 min, esp if I have done a warm up of 20 or more minutes, and then have a gel or jelly babies at 1 every 10-15 minutes thereafter. That's on basis energy reserves will begin to deplete at about 7-800 calories lost and need to keep energy up. Also, have been known to have a swig or two of chocolate milk I keep for post ride recovery in pref to a gel.

Maybe this is my problem - a long ride for me can burn (according to BKool) 1500 calories and I don't replenish during the ride. I then start to fade towards the end. Will have my banana next to me today and like the Bonnette ride I'll take a mouthful every 15 mins so hopefully keep me energised to the end. Not used to eating and cycling, so have to try not to vom

 

[Whorty]

Right I'm set. 14:50 is my warm-up start time. 15:00 is the stage start time. With the warm down run back down Ventoux I hope to be finished by 18:00. We shall see.



Edit to add.

After yesterday my target is to stay above 200 bkool watts. Unlikely but I'll try.

I'll jump on your ride when I'm ready - you'll be way up the hill be then, but it'll hopefully give yo a bit of a moral boost to see another Moose struggling and in pain! You planning to challenge @Perky77 and his ghost? Could be a good pacer.

 

[Bored Man]

Right I'm set. 14:50 is my warm-up start time. 15:00 is the stage start time. With the warm down run back down Ventoux I hope to be finished by 18:00. We shall see.



Edit to add.

After yesterday my target is to stay above 200 bkool watts. Unlikely but I'll try.

Best of luck TB. I'm going to catch up on a couple of chaingang runs.. neither in France..

 

[bridgy]

I find I don't normally need to eat on bkool rides as they're not long enough, but for those of you who will take 2+ hours to do Ventoux it's probably a good idea to have some supplies to hand!

There's a fine line between being under-fueled and eating so many extra calories you undo all the good work the exercise is doing - particularly if you want to lose some weight. I don't believe the bkool or strava calories figures!

I do often have a gel with me just in case on longer bkool rides but rarely eat it. I pinched some jelly babies off the kids the other day to eat during a race and found it impossible to eat them as I was breathing so heavily, so the gel is definitely the easiest thing to get down!

 

[bridgy]

Strava reckons I burnt 1,900 calories doing Ventoux! surely not?

 

[bridgy]

Right I'm set. 14:50 is my warm-up start time. 15:00 is the stage start time. With the warm down run back down Ventoux I hope to be finished by 18:00. We shall see.



Edit to add.

After yesterday my target is to stay above 200 bkool watts. Unlikely but I'll try.

Good luck - what a pleasant way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

 

[CXRAndy]

Kipster has set a new world record 131miles in 3hr30. Me thinks Strava is broken slightly, given what Rick said the other day

 

[theboxers]

I'll jump on your ride when I'm ready - you'll be way up the hill be then, but it'll hopefully give yo a bit of a moral boost to see another Moose struggling and in pain! You planning to challenge @Perky77 and his ghost? Could be a good pacer.

You're welcome to join me .

I tend not to use ghosts as I am trying to learn how my body reacts to the ups and downs on these sessions. Drafting will pull me out of the zone I am trying to be in. Also, for some reason, I end up racing rather than following. I even did to a ghost of myself the other day and blew up half a mile from the finish

 

[theboxers]

You know it's gonna be hard when bkool shows it like this