Nutrition for a 24 hour MTB Race

[mtbdarby]

I watched some of the 24 hour national championship race this weekend. Chris Eatough won the mens division and there is this comment on a Trek racing website from him - that during a 24 hour race he consumes 12,000 calories and still looses 10 pounds.

How is that possible? I thought your body could only process 200 calories an hour (this would be 500). Just curious. TIA.

[Pedal Wench]

I have no idea, but just realized that I wonder if this means that all of our meals should be limited to 200 calories, because everything else gets ---- what? Converted to fats, or just eliminated?

[LBTC]

Chris won again? Wow. Was Tinker there too? Who won the women's division?

btw, I have no idea about the calorie thing. But I have been told that exercise has an imediate speeding effect on the metabolism, so perhaps that increase the amount of calories that can be processed?

H&B
~T~

[mtbdarby]

Yep, he won again LB. I don't think Tinker was there either - someone told me he hasn't been there in years, but Rebecca Rusch was - she took second. If you go to www.itiming.com you can find the race and pull up the results. I've never heard of the female that won.

Chris was one of the people riding with a 29" wheel in the front and a 26" on the back. He has a support person that switched out bikes for him to keep it clean and running good. I saw a female Trek racing also riding a bike with the same wheel set up but I can't find a picture of one anywhere on the net.