Nutrition

So the plan was to be up and on the road by about 5:45, giving me time for a quick half marathon & to get back home in time for a shower and to get to work. It didn’t quite pan out like that though, and I ended up leaving the house at 6:20, so...
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So my Decadent In-laws are here to stay and it’s the school holidays. Normally I’d do my long ride on a Sunday, but we’d hatched a plan for a picnic on Holy Island - the family would drive, and I’d cycle there before hitching a lift home. I plotted my route . . . ....
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I thought I’d been being good. But apparently not - the beer I drank during recovery week didn’t make up for the vast quantities of food I wasn’t eating. When I got on the scales this morning, my weight was back down at 11st - 70kg. This is not good, as it means I’ve...
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Not! OK - we’re off-topic here (there aren’t even any bikes in the background of the animation), but watch it anyway. It’ll only take just over eight minutes of your life, which is pretty short for a slice of education! (Brought to you via the eternally productive gwadzilla - so there’s your link to bikes.)
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While I was out on Sunday, another rider tagged along for a while, and was a bit surprised at the volume of fluids I had with me: Four, 750ml (30oz) bottles, filled with High5 Zero (electrolytes with a lemon flavour; no sugar & no carbohydrates) He was so astonished at this, that he even asked me...
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Two things about Ironman training: It takes up a lot of time You burn a LOT of calories So in the first week of March - the last of my Base 2 training period, I ate like a horse at every meal (to the point of feeling uncomfortably full), and I still dropped 3lbs over the week. Last...
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At various times, you might have heard me raving about Wife’s flapjacks. These are without question THE fuel of champions - just perfect for long rides. So perfect that they can no-longer be kept a secret. So I’ve dusted off my Minox A / IIIs camera and broken into the kitchen to steal the...
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So after the bike . . . the run. I got home just after midday, and it was warm enough for me to change - my first time in shots this year! I just hope that the sight of my winter legs didn’t scare too many horses / offend public decency too badly. This was...
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Yep. I’m pretty good at this. Usually it’s because I forget to drink enough before / during / after exercise. Or I drink the wrong kind of stuff (Guinness may well be good for you, but not during a race!). But this one was a whole new experience in incompetence for me… … I was...
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But you can keep your pasta shells, twists, bows, macaroni, and spaghetti. And you can shove your tins of Spaghetti ‘Oops, where the sun don’t shine. From now on, it’s Pasta di Triathlon for me: But if you can’t face the swim, they also do Pasta di Bici (bike only) and Pasta di Maratona (runners...
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