Real Food is Better!

[John Hughes]

Very interesting interview with Allen Lim, PhD on nutrition while riding. Lim is the nutritionist for the Shack and other pro teams:

     http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/12/13/avoid-gut-rot-on-long-rides/

His key points include:

• We're each an experiment of one
• Eat 1/2 your caloric hourly burn rate every hour
• Real food is better
• Stay hydrated
• Sodium is critical

He's obviously right since I've made the same points on my website :-)
http://www.coach-hughes.com/resources/resources.html

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John Hughes
www.coach-hughes.com
PO Box 18028
Boulder, CO 80308-1028

[dougm]

I'm a relative newbie to our sport and get lots of nausea after 300 k
or so. What I find to work best is Ensure Plus and I drank about 25
or so 8 oz bottles of the milk chocolate variety on PBP. It worked
real well. What do you think of this approach?

On Dec 14, 4:54 pm, John Hughes <coachjohnhug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Very interesting interview with Allen Lim, PhD on nutrition while riding.
> Lim is the nutritionist for the Shack and other pro teams:
>
>      http://www.fatcyclist.com/2011/12/13/avoid-gut-rot-on-long-rides/
>
> His key points include:
>

>    - We're each an experiment of one
>    - Eat 1/2 your caloric hourly burn rate every hour
>    - Real food is better
>    - Stay hydrated
>    - Sodium is critical

[Eric Keller]

I'm somewhat surprised that you could get Ensure on PBP, where did you get it?
Eric

[dougm]

On Dec 15, 12:02 pm, Eric Keller <eekel...@psu.edu> wrote:
> I'm somewhat surprised that you could get Ensure on PBP, where did you get
> it?
> Eric
>

> I flew about 25-30 8 oz. bottles over from the US and put about 18 or so in my drop bag. I fly a bunch so Continental gave me lots of free checked baggage.

I find it sort of perplexing that some call Ensure a sports drink in
the same category as Gatorade. I found Ensure to be a decent sub for
real food. In fact, I had less than three smallish meals of regular
food in my entire 87 hours and 40 minute relatively slow PBP. Ensure
was my only real sustanence. And I bet not many Rando riders get
diarrhea with it either. I sure didn't.

[Randon Nerd]

As others have said, we are all an experiment with sample size, n=1.
Due to some minor problems with my upper GI tract on longer rides I
used to supplement my dietary requirements with Boost and Ensure but
got tired of carrying the bottles and relying on drop bags, so I bit
the bullet and went "cold turkey" to Perpetuem for my sole energy
source for all of my rides other than my daily commute. Although I'm
only a "casual" rider, it has worked out well for me, but at the end
of 90 hour - actually I'm an 88 hour kind of guy - I'm getting a
strong hankerin' for a something with more desirable organoleptic
properties.

I didn't know Ensure was available in powder form or I may have
considered that, although having tried the bottles for a couple of
days, I got the feeling I was living on warm milk shakes.

I have no ties with Hammer Nutrition, but in agreement with others,
now that I'm strictly onto drinking Perpetuem, I should look for
sponsorship but I'm not sure that I'd make a good spokesperson, as i
have to admit that with Perpetuem I just hold my nose and swallow -
knowing that it will be good for me once I get that swallow down into
my stomach. Another benefit of using having replaced my normal water
bottles with Perpetuem is that it also forces me to remain hydrated -
and it has been formulated to be mild coming back up, and I have to
admit that the strawberry favor tastes almost better going down the
second time.

Willy

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