Originally Posted by
learning2ride
I don't think that is true what most people are saying. It depends on you energy system. It appears that most people that responded has trained their system to operate on limited carbs.
I bonked on a 25 mile ride when I was cutting carbs on Monday. On Thursday night, I had a bowl of pasta and rode Friday morning and had plenty of energy.
I ride at 9am. I eat my last meal at 7pm so that is 14hrs without food, so when I hear people say "just a water bottle" before a ride it doesn't make sense.
THIS^^^^
Everybody is different.
I have found "carb loading" to be very helpful to me for rides of 30-50 miles.
As far as the OP goes - for ME, one bottle of water would work fine for that short of a distance...as long as I ate a something before I started. But that's me.