Originally Posted by
photonick
400 calories for an hour?! No way man, there's no way I need that much usually when I do that ride with the out and back it comes to two hours and I do it on 1 bottle of heed 1 bottle of water and maybe a few. If I'm endurolytes feeling week i MIGHT pop a gel, but usually not. I can't stand drinking my calories so I'm doing perpetum in the first hour to get me through the hard part of the ride.
He means you make one strong bottle and one light bottle (water). You switch back and forth between the two bottles for the first 2 hours. 200kcal/hour is not excessive.
I know a few who use this for one bottle then just take water bottles from feed zones. 1200Cal in one bottle, but it's maltodextrin so it's not crazy sweet.
