What is your pre ride eating routine?

[Fab Foodie]

Breakfast of choice, tea, second schitt, ride.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Raw oats, Greek yoghurt, fruit and honey. If it is really early (before 05:00) and I can’t stomach much, I have a tin of rice pudding. Coffee or a mug of tea. Banana if there’s space. My rides are 10-12 hours usually. Lots of snacks on the bike and proper meals at proper meal time. I try not to break my routine.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Last nights pizza or kebab leftovers, a small glass of home brewed mead.

Don't forget the turkey left overs from 1977...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

No routine, weekends I have breakfast and that's it. Unless you've been starving yourself you'll already have plenty of fuel on board.

 

[Tigerbiten]

It doesn't matter if I'm going out to do 5 miles or 50.
I eat what I normally eat when I would normally eat it.
I've enough reserves of body fat not to need to eat extra ...........

 

[jongooligan]

For longer rides I usually start on an empty stomach, specially if it's an early one. Eat a Nakd bar around 20 - 25 miles then stop for a proper breakfast around 50 miles.

Shorter rides are more likely to happen later so I'll have eaten something but not specifically fuel for a ride. Also, if I've drunk alcohol the previous day I always have something to eat before I set off no matter what the time.

 

[Alien8]

Horses for courses.

For my weekend ride (typically 105/110 miles this time of year), porridge and a mug of tea.

Jelly babies, cereal bar, and High5-Zero during the ride.

Only stopping for a call of nature.

 

[PaulSB]

Hello

Just curious to know what you guys like to do and eat before your weekend ride.

Do you eat at all or do you prefer to start on an empty stomach and maybe stop halfway for a bacon roll or a cake?

And if you do eat before your ride, what do you normally like to fuel up with and how long before your ride?

What's your favourite treat and what gives you the most energy?

Breakfast is always the same routine. Two cups of coffee, one litre of water, porridge (60gm of oats) with either honey or dried fruit and a spoonful of creme fraiche. About 30 minutes before leaving.

On the bike one bottle of water, one of electrolyte. Drunk during first 40/50 miles.

In the cafe. Americano, beans on toast with poached eggs. Water to drink. Refill water bottles.

This gets me through 100 miles at which point I'd need another cafe stop.

 

[gbb]

It doesn't matter if I'm going out to do 5 miles or 50.
I eat what I normally eat when I would normally eat it.
I've enough reserves of body fat not to need to eat extra ...........

In a way, me too...although I m relatively skinny. When I did 50 milers I'd invariably stop at a cafe and stoke up. Equally some rides I wouldn't.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I don't ride far enough to even think about fodder pre-ride. Most I ever do is around 40 miles and more usually 20-25.

 

[HLaB]

I usually have 2 weetabix or fruit porridge before a ride and if its a more intense ride I like to rehydrate and also eat a banana.

 

[slowmotion]

Porage with lots of milk, and two mugs of coffee. Perhaps a banana.

Ham rolls halfway, maybe a KitKat but no cake.

Yellow beer afterwards.

 

[Globalti]

Read my account on "Your ride" about how I bonked last weekend after only a bowl of Bran Flakes at 05.30. I'm normally more careful to eat properly before a ride. 32 years of cycling have taught me the need for that.

When we used to ride Polaris Mountain Marathons the most awkward meal was always breakfast on the Sunday morning. There isn't really anything high energy like scrambled eggs on toast that you can carry and cook in a tent.

 

[byegad]

Cereal and fruit with semi-skimmed milk, tea. Just like any day I'm not riding.

 

[Sea of vapours]

On a longish ride, meaning 5-10 hours: an avocado, a banana, about 50-100g of nuts and several spoonfuls of hummus. During the ride, just a nut/seed bar which I make myself with the minimum amount of black treacle to hold it together.