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    If my ride of that distance is strictly for fitness/touring, then I will consciously eat just a bigger breakfast. I don't consciously extra-carbo load or eat extra protein. Just whatever is available at home or wherever I'm staying if I'm away at home which includes:

    a cup of oatmeal with skim milk or cereal /slice of bread
    fruit
    juice
    tea (+ skim milk) or coffee- yea, I know it's not good. But that is just me.
    I might add scrambled eggs if staying at a hotel plus a sausage if available. I never have ham/sausage/bacon for brekkie at home. (I eat sausage ....for supper. )

    Then approx. within lst 30-35 kms., I tend to need to eat a small snack with water or coffee, ie. it could be fruit or small muffin/cookie or half sandwich.

    Somewhere later during ride will eat small portions of an granola bar or fruit or part of sandwich. Water.

    At end, a sit-down meal...within 2-3 hrs. after ride.
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    If the ride has bits of errand time and stops, I eat 40% less of all this food described above...it would mean breakfast diversity/size is drastically reduced plus 1 less snack stop.

    I don't do cliff bars, cliff-shots, gels, energy drinks, etc. After all these years of cycling, am still just inherently lazy, cheap to buy and try this stuff. I justify this laziness as wanting to eat real food.
    Last edited by shootingstar; 09-26-2009 at 01:40 PM.
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