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

[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!