Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
I don't understand the seemingly arbitrary restrictions most folks on here put on themselves with regards to eating when on the bike. "No food under three hours, no food under 50 miles, etc." Sometimes I eat on a 20 mile ride. Sometimes I don't eat on a Metric. I never leave the house and think, "oh, only doing 45 miles this morning, no snacks!" If I'm hungry I eat, If I'm not I don't. So the same philosophy transfers over to the 250kcal/hr thing-- I have never planned out how much I'm going to intake per hour in advance. Hungry, eat, not hungry, don't. Sometimes, chocolate milk.
I live by my user title.
It isn't a question of imposing restrictions. I don't take food on 3 hour rides because I never need food on 3 hour rides. But if I'm going to be out for over four hours I know I'll probably need to eat, I know it is foolish to wait until I'm ccompletely glycogen depleted before starting to eat, and I see no reason to eat more - or less - than I know I can absorb in the time.