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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 17:43:59 GMT
Same here with the touring diet. I find the trail mix from Aldi really good for sustenance. Bananas are also the bees knees and a natural electrolyte. I try to eat some protein such as eggs and chicken if I can get hold of it for post ride nutrition. Quite often I'll hard boil eggs at brekky and have them later on.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 18:02:47 GMT
It's amazing that things so simple can go a long way, i've yet to go on any long cycles but i hope to build up to that stage, has anyone experience with local cycling clubs? Are they worth joining?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 18:13:33 GMT
Be good to hear the results if anyone attempts making the gels. Where would I even buy those ingredients? Maltodextrin, caffeine,BCAA, Beta Alanine?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 18:33:32 GMT
Be good to hear the results if anyone attempts making the gels. Where would I even buy those ingredients? Maltodextrin, caffeine,BCAA, Beta Alanine? All of that should be available from myprotein (google it). They are very well priced. I've been using them for a couple of years.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 18:50:35 GMT
I was wondering about where to get those ingredients too. Do you reckon somewhere like holland & barrett would sell those too?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 18:54:28 GMT
I think the first steps to decent fitness is getting in shape and for most of us that means getting rid of shedloads of fat. I managed to do that by cycling for long periods (3-6 hours) at a mediocre pace over 4 or 5 months to burn off a fair bit of fat. I was on a low carb diet at the time.
It worked really well for me and I feel a lot better for it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 18:57:50 GMT
Same here with the touring diet. I find the trail mix from Aldi really good for sustenance. Bananas are also the bees knees and a natural electrolyte. I try to eat some protein such as eggs and chicken if I can get hold of it for post ride nutrition. Quite often I'll hard boil eggs at brekky and have them later on. yep - almost the same here (though I hate bananas as much as they hate me!) eggs played a huge part in our diet as did beans & pulses (I am vegetarian but allergic to dairy - just to make life interesting. ironically it is easier outside the UK to be allergic to dairy!). so we would make our own mix up and I would drive my husband mad though because he would buy mixed dried fruit and mixed nuts then add them to the same waterproof bag and I systematically pick out each and every single one of each type (per handful) and eat each nut/fruit type together! still do it with the roasted bean mix (food doctor) and mixed nuts when we have longer rides now as well! Eggs were an evening thing - and also strangely a midnight snack, somehow an egg around midnight if I woke up hungry worked miracles! We could routinely polish off 6 eggs in a sitting. Cooking them in the pasta sauce - crack egg into sauce and do not stirr) make for a plesant change from hard boiled eggs as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 19:28:51 GMT
Just been looking at prices of ingredients on myprotein to make those gels, it'll be bloomin' expensive! Problem is some things you need 8gms of come in 250gm packets, at Β£14.
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Post by spaceflightorange on Jul 11, 2013 20:32:16 GMT
Regarding nutrition, I like to carry a load of jelly babies and some fig rolls on rides over an hour and a half or so. Does anyone have a recommendation for a drink with carbs + electrolyte? One of our club members once laced some jelly babies with pro-plus, to help get a guy home who clearly hadn't prepared for the ride properly. Every so often the other members have a little dig at him and the "magic" jelly babies that got him home I use High 5 stuff all the time, either the Zero Tabs which are good for electrolytes and the endurance powders that you mix with water. They also have a 4-1 carb/protein mix that works as a recovery drink, i sometimes have this in my second bottle on long rides to get me to the end
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 21:42:56 GMT
It's amazing that things so simple can go a long way, i've yet to go on any long cycles but i hope to build up to that stage, has anyone experience with local cycling clubs? Are they worth joining? I've often wondered if it's worth joining a club. There's one nearish to me that says on their website that they put on social rides for all abilities, but I often wondered if they're any good for beginners who ride a bit (but still need to massively improve fitness) and have semi-decent kit or if they're full of a lot of people on clapped out BLOs and young kids (so you're unable to get a decent pace going).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 21:49:26 GMT
It's amazing that things so simple can go a long way, i've yet to go on any long cycles but i hope to build up to that stage, has anyone experience with local cycling clubs? Are they worth joining? I've often wondered if it's worth joining a club. There's one nearish to me that says on their website that they put on social rides for all abilities, but I often wondered if they're any good for beginners who ride a bit (but still need to massively improve fitness) and have semi-decent kit or if they're full of a lot of people on clapped out BLOs and young kids (so you're unable to get a decent pace going). I looked at a few clubs around here, all had good and bad points, but all had snobery so I decided to start a ofshoot cycling club with my running club....best of both
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 22:15:22 GMT
That sounds pretty decent, you know who you're cycling with and can set your own standards., i think it might help with my motivation but i'm weary of turning up and being shown up and embarrassed. Probably just a confidence issue, i stay in glasgow and they all seem to ask of a decent standard if you join. I suppose you can only gain experience i just wondered if anyone here had good things to say.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 22:31:10 GMT
a lot of clubs have different groups so they go out at different paces, one of the local ones has 3 rides, from memory the are set on average pace 13-18- +20mph if you can find one like that get in the group lower than you think you should be in to get used to riding in a pack and move on from there. See f there is a Clarion club close by, or British Cycling has a club finder. The good thing is most clubs will let you join in for a while before they ask you to join, so you can try them out
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2013 23:06:41 GMT
a lot of clubs have different groups so they go out at different paces, one of the local ones has 3 rides, from memory the are set on average pace 13-18- +20mph if you can find one like that get in the group lower than you think you should be in to get used to riding in a pack and move on from there. See f there is a Clarion club close by, or British Cycling has a club finder. The good thing is most clubs will let you join in for a while before they ask you to join, so you can try them out Top advice mate, that's exactly what i'll do. I'm new to cycling and i'm fairly fit but i have no idea about technique and what's best so it sounds like just the thing for me. Cheers mate
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Post by psyclepath on Jul 11, 2013 23:29:39 GMT
I joined a local cycling club before I bought my T3, thinking my hybrid would be sufficient for the social rides. I went with the slowest group, generally found it a really good club. It's a large club so plenty of novices to go out (and they are quite slow, prob average around 14mph). I suppose there is a little bit of bike snobbery in the faster groups, but there are plenty of members on really old or cheap bikes. There's a few women too (mostly in the lower groups) which is good to see. It's well worth doing and far better than trying to do 30-50milers by yourself. I went from about 25 miles rides up to 50 milers in around 4 Sundays, then thought I'd better get a road bike, hence the T3! There's a few people with very expensive bikes, but plenty of the group take the pi$$ out of them anyway, especially if they are the "all the gear and no idea" types! It's all good natured though. My advice would be to find a big club though to start with. Smaller clubs might not want to feel too held back by beginners.
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