Originally Posted by
CliftonGK1
For rides of 200k (125mi) and up, my nutritional plan is "shovel in whatever crap I can turn into energy". It's amazing what kind of stuff you (maybe not you, but me and some of my friends) end up eating on long rides. Yes, there's the usual bananas, Clif Bars, gels. Then you start getting the slightly odd for an exercise food: Tater chips, beef jerky, salami sandwich. And finally the outright "how the hell do you eat that and still ride?": Microwave bean/cheese burritos from 7-11. Chocolate Ensure and Starbucks Doubleshot mixed together in a waterbottle. McD's sausage/egg/cheese muffin and hash browns. Accelerade and 5-Hour Energy.
Slow and steady pace, and keep stoking the furnace.
Since I don't race, even on a short ride I fuel with 'normal' food. I lost ten pounds on tour in June despite shoveling anything and everything down my gullet - subs, trail mix, sno-cones, bananas, tea and soda and lemonade, breakfast sandwiches...... It's amazing what you can burn riding 40 miles a day pulling a trailer at 11 MPH.