What do you eat before a ride?

[shootingstar]

2 fried eggs
1 pork chop smothered in carmelized onions and garlic
big pile of mashed potatoes with olive oil and plain yogurt
coffee

Breakfast of champions! Gets me through triathlons and long morning rides, and I expect it to get me through my first half marathon next week.
(salmon can be substituted for the pork chop)

Wow, this wins a gold medal on volume.
I have eaten breakfasts like that, just substitute the pork chop..with a sausage or slice of ham (yea, bad), toasted English muffin, etc....particularily on self-supported touring bike rides that run several days. Or before we go snowshoeing for several hrs. somewhere in the mountains during the day.

The biggest danger for me when we go on vacation somewhere are the buffet breakfasts at a hotel. Another reason why our vacations have to include some multi-hr. long fitness activity.

AFter such a breakfast, I barely have a lunch. Don't need to. The purpose of that type of breakfast is precisely for 1) convenience 2) to help me not pine for a ton of food at lunch but to have 1-2 small snacks before supper during bike ride or snowshoeing trip day.