Caffeine Free options?

[Trek420]

Ah, noooooooow I understand, you quit caffeine a while back. OK, so I would venture to say find your happy breakfast, find what fuels you. Look for whole grains, things that "stick to the ribs". Not so much relying on multiple bursts of energy as sustained energy.

Find what is your happy recovery meal so you don't go into the next day (and the next and the next ....) feeling drained and feel more the need to rely on energy bars etc.

Recovery on ALC: I read here on the board I think that after you put your body through he]] you have about a 1/2 hour to put nutrition back in. When I get into camp each day I park the bike, pat the bike down and say "thanks" and head for the food tent right away, usually knoshing on a snack in my pocket as I go. I see a lot of people head for the showers first and more power to them. If you see me in the dinner tent next year you might want to slide down a couple seats, I may be a tad stanky, but I'd rather recover for the next day than be clean .... and bonk

You will have lots of caffeine free energizing snack choices at the rest stops: fruit, bananas, oranges, raisins, these really cool sesame and honey cracker things, peanut butter and graham cracker cookies that I only see there, bagels with cream cheese and peanut butter .... I could go on.

So to conclude: if you want coffee on ALC it is there and you can do it, if you don't there are plenty of options too.