How Tired Are You After Riding?

[shootingstar]

When I was in my mid-twenties I did a lot of centuries, 100K - 100 miles. I would come home, shower, drink coffee, and go on with my day. After I hit 30, I'd come home after one of these, shower, drink coffee, stretch out on the couch and go right to sleep!

When I started riding again a couple of years ago, I got all gung-ho and ended up eating too much before rides. My breakfast normally includes some good carbs anyway, so I realized I didn't need to eat anything extra.

These days, at 52, the balance is getting out there regularly - either riding or going to the gym, but including one or two days a week for rest. There's no way I could "work out" 7 days a week.

Interesting to read your experience over a long time period. I have nothing to compare prior to cycling return at 31 yrs. Prior to that I had not cycled for 12 years.

In my early 30's, I used eat less food prior to an early morning cycle : ie. be able to jump onto bike in 80-85F degree, humid summer day at least 80-85% humidity and cycle for 25 kms. in blazing sun, without stopping ..on just 1 c. of tea with abit of milk.

I can't quite do that anymore. I have to eat abit more for that same distance before I start cycling.


Flybye:
Agree that some rides are such fun/enjoyable that ...for me, I literally forget how dehydrated I get which probably contributes to my feelings of depletion. I will drink more fluid at the end and at supper, not during ride. Then next day after waking up, I wonder why I still feel abit dehydrated.