Just started taking creatine, like first day was Sunday 09-22-24. Trying it for 3 reasons. 1 - broke my left femur last year in a crash and I'm finding my hips, pelvic muscles and abdomen (core) all got damaged in the crash. The broken femur was nothing compared to the rehab for my damaged core muscles; 2 - muscle mass maintenance; 3 - recovery time from rides. I have a 100km ride coming up I'm training for and want to make sure I can handle the ride and have an effective recovery. I ride 15-25km daily during the weekdays and 40-50km on one weekend day with the other off. just stretched the weekend ride to 75km. For the 100km I'll back off the weekday and just do the 100km. I'm averaging 24km/hr across the rides with elevation between 100-300m .depending on the route. Took 10g creatine in a shake before the 75km ride, another 10g shake after the ride. Taking 10g daily for this first week (kind of a pre-load) and will settle into 5g per morning shake thereafter. I'll let you know how it goes! So far it's good. My legs feel pretty good 2 days later but way to early to say for sure the value.