When I was doing double centuries and my monthly 200Ks I would eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and drink chocolate milk on the way to the ride. If I had enough time I'd also eat a yogurt. Depends on how long the drive was. Once on the bike, I drank every 15 minutes and ate every 30 minutes like clockwork. One of the checkpoints for the brevet was at a grocery store and coincided pretty nicely with lunchtime. I'd get a banana, a Red Bull, a bag of ice and peanut M&Ms. I'd eat half to 2/3 of the banana, drink all the Red Bull, and the M&Ms went in my Bento Box since I'd be sick of Sport Beans and gels by then. I prefer my drinks cold so the ice ensured I kept drinking the rest of the day.

I figured out that this was I needed to do on all the long training rides I did before I did my first double century.

I followed this same routine for all the long rides I did. Then I got over doing long rides.

Goodness, I haven't had a Red Bull in like two years.

Veronica