Originally Posted by fitmiss
As I begin to ride longer distances (metric centuries), I am giving more thought to nutrition. I am told that what I eat the night before a ride like a metric century or a century is important.
I am a woman in my mid-forties. I am of "normal" weight, work out most days I'm not biking, and am pretty healthy. I rode a metric on Satuday and Sunday night started with symptoms of a head cold. It might be very coincidental but I wonder if maybe my body was depleted. What do you think?
Is what I eat the night before a long ride important? If so, what do you suggest I eat for dinner? I prefer not to eat red meat.
Thanks for any information.
fitmiss: I hope you are NOT like my wife. She thinks that biking nice and slow should help her weight control program. WRONG. She also has your symptoms.
A long trip requires good nutrition as all the posters above said and I agree with all of them. Unfortunatly this will not make you skinny.
Now another subject.
I have lost a lot of weight by biking more intense. Century in 6 hours on lime stone trail.
My Diet for that:
Breakfast: Fresh fruit and Pancakes with slice of Ham.
One Powerbar/hour and lots of water.
Lunch: Subway with Pepperoni/Salamy and Veggies. (I need the salt)
Again One Powerbar/hour and lots of water.
Dinner: Salmon, Veggies, Pasta and bottle of very good red wine.
Next day repeat and another century.
With this diet I slowly lost 50 lb. out of 240 lb. over two years. I bike over 200 miles/week.( 63 years old)