NY Times:Secrets of Endurance: Eating to Go (and Go and Go)

[CycleChic06]

Yeah, it's a really interesting topic. Such a fine line between having too much and too little. And then it's all about eating the correct things...like the guy that ate the powerbar and it really hindered his performance. I guess it's kinda trial and error too, since it's so individualistic and also based on race conditions....there's not really one set formula you can follow every time.

It makes endurance sports just THAT much harder.

[Lise]

And yet, that's part of what I enjoy about it. The strategy, learning from errors, fine tuning each time out.

[HappyAnika]

Thanks for posting that. I have a newbie friend who doesn't eat on long rides (4+ hours) because she says she's not hungry (or she says, and this kills me, "I had a power bar with me, but I don't like power bars" Duh! take something you like to eat so you'll eat it!!!). I've said everything I can to convince her . . . I'll give her this article, I think it sums up nicely what I've been trying to tell her.

[KSH]

Great read right before my 100 miler on Saturday!

I'm all about LOADING UP ON THE CARBS! HA!

[latelatebloomer]

I bonked on the FIRST half of a 35 mile ride on Sunday. (Leave it to me to do things backwards.) I had a 3 hour meeting before we went out, THOUGHT I had had enough to eat, but it became clear I had not. My riding got worse and worse, I felt awful, I was near tears, I was near divorce, it is amazing how the mind will not recognize that the problem is food! (Probably because the judgement is impaired.) We got to a place I could eat, and one hamburger & milkshake later, and a few minutes lay-down in the shade, I was an entirely different rider. It was almost spooky.

[CycleChic06]

I'm all about LOADING UP ON THE CARBS! HA!

I know! This is the best news ever...any excuse to keep eating those carbs. Well, who really needs an excuse, I can eat whatever I want!

Down with South Beach and Atkins Diet!