Drifting away...

Maybe it's menopause, but I'm finding I need to eat on a ride now, which I never needed to before. Otherwise I'm toast after an hour and a half of hill riding, or two hours pacelining. IF I have a nice BIG bowl of brown rice about four hours before the ride, I won't need to eat on a three-hour ride; otherwise, I have to eat.

I'm new to longer runs, but I'm definitely finding that I do better on runs over 1h15m if I take in calories. So far I've done fine with plain sugar plus electrolytes on runs up to 2 hours. Michele, I could only wish to run 8 mph over a long run! Heck, I could only wish to run 8 mph for a 5K.