Gest24

If I wake up early enought and my fiance is up, I'll have her make some eggs and toast. If I sleep in, Clif bar. Wash it all down with OJ.

Machka 

A bottle of Ensure and an oatmeal raisin cookie.

dmb2786

really?

AndyOrg

Yes...I have...what's the deal?

Jasper Storm

Can of chili con carne and three english muffins
or
Big plate of spaghetti

AndyOrg

Oh, it was at a rock gym.

dmb2786

ohhhhh. not on a bike. makes sense

spry

Cup of coffee,newspaper while on the throne,forage through the kitchen.

dmb2786

kashi cereal. omelette. water. maybe a banana

henria86

whey protien shake, an esspresso or a frappe

umd

Sometimes I ride 3 times in a day. If I didn't eat anything 3 hours before I rode I would have an hour window in the mid-morning, an hour window in the afternoon, and a few hours in the evening. I would always be hungry and would have to eat huge meals. No thank you. I eat constantly; small meals. As long as you don't have a large quantity of food its perfectly fine to eat before riding. The trick is that you don't want to have things that are hard for your body to digest, and the importance of this depends on how long before your ride, and how your body deals with different types of foods.

FWIW, I usually have a little bit of granola and coffee when I wake up (maybe 4oz of each), an omelette (with veggies and a tiny bit of low fat cheese) after I ride to work, some kind of sandwich for lunch, and fruits and other similar snacks in between. If I go for a ride at lunch I will usually have some kind of recovery drink or yogurt w/granola immediate after the ride and lunch later. Dinner is too widely variable and not really relevant to the discussion, but it usually is several small meals throughout the evening rather than one big sit-down meal.

Ritterview

Muesli, an idea I got from podcasts of the Tour de France in 2006. Phonak had muesli for breakfast, and Tom Boonen said he too had muesli. If it works for them, it I figure it will work for me. I think it tastes great,

I doctor my Muesli, adding protein and nuts in a large container I can have every day. I am looking for a balance of protein, (low glycemic index) carbohydrate and fats.

In large container mix dry ingredients:

(1)Muesli (I get a large bag from Bob's Red Mill online)
(2)Casein protein powder (more slowly absorbed than whey).
(3) Nuts (good oils, taste).

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Night before ride:

Defrost frozen blueberries in cup.
Add Milk, Yogurt or Buttermilk
Add flaxseed oil (Omega 3, tastes okay, adds fat).
Add Maple syrup (makes it taste great).
Add Muesli mix, and stir it up.

Put cup lid on, and cup in in refrigerator (sometimes I will make several cups, and freeze those I need for several days hence).

When to eat? According to the Hammer Nutrition Guide for Endurance Athlete, >3 hours before the event.

So, if your event is in the morning, you can have your "breakfast" before you go to bed. According to Hammer, the glycogen will stay stored in your muscles whilst you sleep. Alternatively, if you drink enough to be well hydrated, you'll have to get up in the night twice to pee. When you get up, wolf down your Muesli. That is what I did for the Death Ride yesterday. I was at least two hours into it before I felt I needed to eat anything.

Brian Ratliff

One thing I cannot do is eat a Clif bar early in the morning. For some reason, it sits in a lump in my stomach and doesn't digest well.

And, BTW, rolled oats, not steel cut. Easier to cook (2.5 minutes in the microwave), I guess is the difference. I didn't know that until I Wiki'ed it two seconds ago.

xfimpg

Same here, and it gives me gas too.

cyclezealot

either. cereal, oatmeal, french toast, along with a banana and a little juice. . Greasy eggs. Wait until lunch.

JamisVE

Oatmeal with blueberries, raisins, sliced banana, cinnamon, and little honey (same as everyday) and
plenty of water of course.

During ride, more h2o, some Gatorade if its a longer trek (3+ hours), and a Clif bar in the middle of the ride. Good to go!

malpag3

Haha yes, same here. Although, it acts as a propellant sometimes.

I like eating hearty breakfasts about an hour before I go out on a ride.

I usually will make my own Egg McMuffin (Sausage or Morning Star wannabe sausage patty, egg, english muffin, and cheese) along with a piece of toast, some OJ and then a duplo espresso!

The espresso helps with energy and helps me um...well...drop some weight before I go ride!

That said, I don't enjoy riding as much in the morning as in the evening.

UtahWasatch

Gainesville ? Climb ? They let you ride the stairs in the "swamp"?!

Fat Boy

My program exactly, except I tend to add a little honey in the oatmeal and black tea instead of coffee.

artifice

Oatmeal (the old fashioned cook on the stove kind)
throw in 1 tbsp of peanut butter while cooking
After cooked & slightly cooled, slice a banana on top.

Chase with a glass of water.

mmmm delicious.

gfrance

Love the eggs, but I just can't get filled from them.

Large bowl of granola cereal perhaps mixed with a fiber cereal. Almonds, raisins, banana, blueberries, topped off with soy milk. Maybe a slice of rye toast with almond butter and honey. One cup coffee. Glass of juice.
That keeps me going for a long time and is easy to digest.

huytheskigod

Not Fried Rice!

Nekura

Tiny, spidery... that's because all of the people that go to the gym are 100 lb asian guys.

You can actually ride up a really steep spiral walkway into the stadium. That's probably the toughest climb we have in Gainesville =p

umd

Haha! Climbers in Florida. That's a good one.

recursive

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