Breakfast Before Early Rides?

[mimitabby]

Starfish, if you wait 2 hours to eat, you could bonk and that's a road you don't want to go down.
how about chocolate milk? is that something you can handle? You just want to keep from going below a safe blood sugar level.

There's a true science to keeping your nutrition right on long rides; that's one of the reasons people don't just go out and ride 100 miles. See what happens on a 30, a 50, a 60 mile ride.

I find myself getting VERY hungry if i ride much more than 25 miles. that's approximately 2 hours. People struggle with nutrition on these epic rides.
People like my DH who rides mostly rides ending in 2 zeros endlessly compare and try alternate diets; like Ensure and very expensive powdered foods; yet
he also likes stuff like chocolate milk and Snickers bars.
experiment on shorter rides, see what works for you!

[Starfish]

how about chocolate milk? is that something you can handle?

See what happens on a 30, a 50, a 60 mile ride.

Mimi, thanks. The shorter rides, 30-40 miles, are no problem. It is the longer rides when I notice that, even if I start eating on the bike right away, if I have not had a real breakfast, I think I pay for it several hours later, despite on-bike eating.

When I can eat a huge breakfast, let it digest for 3 hours, then go ride, I do great.