I like to eat high calorie, low volume, low fiber food during randonneuring events, which includes breakfast. Nothing worse than having to find a bathroom. I found that on my local permanents, if I eat my normal breakfast and then eat a candy bar and some chocolate milk at the start, it works pretty well. Never tried to simulate that at an organized brevet, but they usually start really early.
Originally Posted by
jimincalif
What do you mean by "long"? A bowl of oatmeal with a little brown sugar, banana and a cuppa coffee. 1/2 or 2/3 of the way thru a ride another cup of coffee and a Clif bar. This is gets me thru a metric century.
for the purposes of the long distance forum, a metric century is not "long." If I am half decent condition, 60 miles doesn't even require food along the way. I keep having randonneurs telling me that 200km is "short," and by the end of the randonneuring season I hopefully feel the same way.