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Old 04-05-07, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Thulsadoom
I find that it helps to mix it up. Better to have a little of a lot of things, than to eat nothing but the same bars and drinks the whole way.
I'd agree with this.

During last year's series, I tended to go between Gu, clif shots, bananas, fig newtons, peanut butter sandwiches, potato chips and fruit (particularly when riding through rural Vermont and New Hampshire; where one can just pillage one farmstand after another for watermelon, cantaloupe and apples)

I'd frequently have half of an italian coldcut sub for lunch and munch on the other half around mid afternoon/early evening. I tended to default to chili or pasta for dinner on a 400 or 600k. That's all on top of consuming liquids that started off with Hammer products but then shifted to more water later in the ride; as my mouth got tired of the synthetic stuff.

A bottle of V8 is also a handy convenience store pull for electrolytes and sodium.

Of course, YMMV. Lots of other folks swear by a pure liquid diet, but I find that idea to be vaguely depressing.
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