Early morning breakfast?
06-09-06, 04:00 PM
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I second the "make sure it is something you have eaten before a long ride" comment. Nothing sucks more than trying to digest "foreign" food. I usually eat a couple of peanut butter and jelly samiches before a ride...a banana, and a bottle of water.
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I do the same thing every morning:
2c of coffee, bowl of cereal w/soy milk, 1/2 bagel with honey. After workout revovery shake:
1/2 c frozen blueberrys, 1 c soymilk, 1 banana, 2 scoops PowerBar revovery poweder, 1 tablespoon L-glutimine, blend.
Weekdays I'm up at 5am on the bike by 5:45. Weekends up by 6:30 on the bike by 7:30.
Race days I eat before I leave, then hydrate during the drive and while warming up, I'll also eat a PowerBar about an hour before the race.
FWIW my height is 5'10" weight 149# bf% +-9.5 age 44.
2c of coffee, bowl of cereal w/soy milk, 1/2 bagel with honey. After workout revovery shake:
1/2 c frozen blueberrys, 1 c soymilk, 1 banana, 2 scoops PowerBar revovery poweder, 1 tablespoon L-glutimine, blend.
Weekdays I'm up at 5am on the bike by 5:45. Weekends up by 6:30 on the bike by 7:30.
Race days I eat before I leave, then hydrate during the drive and while warming up, I'll also eat a PowerBar about an hour before the race.
FWIW my height is 5'10" weight 149# bf% +-9.5 age 44.
06-11-06, 06:14 AM
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Have fun, as long as fuel up during the ride, you should be fine, you don't need a big breakfast before you go, just something that will get some slow carbs and aminos into your blood. Now if it was solo, then I would eat something a bit more substantial. And a metric century is a big deal, just like a regular century is, if it wasn't, it wouldn't have a name. 
06-11-06, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by derath
HEHE Yep. That is the one. You going? Any other BF members?
If so I will be getting there as close to 7am as possible. I will be on my Giant OCR C3 in my Seagull Century jersey.
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If so I will be getting there as close to 7am as possible. I will be on my Giant OCR C3 in my Seagull Century jersey.
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Wish I could have been there. I like to ride that part of PG. The weather looked good and I like riding with the OHBTC.
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When I get up early, I usually go with a Clif bar an some water or maybe a glass of accelerade. I can't ride with milk in my stomach, so cereal and stuff are out.
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well? what did you end up having for brekky?
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I like Oatmeal (long cooking rolled oats, topped with a little real butter and real maple syrup - hits all the bases) when it's cool to cold outside. In the summer, I ain't cooking/eating that. Then I like to go to the Peanut Butter and Bannana sandwiches on whole wheat bread. How many depends on how far I'll be going....
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My everyday breakfast:
Handful of oatmeal
2 spoonfuls of wheat bran
1 spoonful of 9 grain hot cereal uncooked
1 spoonful of unsweetened protein powder
A mix of life/oat bran/puffed wheat cereal/whatever healthy cereal we have....I'm guessing 1/2 cup here.
A large handful of frosted mini-wheats
1 1/2- 2 cups of milk
1 slice of organic sprouted bread
Always feel energetic and ready to get the day started after this breakfast, even when I get up at at 5:20 a.m. to ride.
Handful of oatmeal
2 spoonfuls of wheat bran
1 spoonful of 9 grain hot cereal uncooked
1 spoonful of unsweetened protein powder
A mix of life/oat bran/puffed wheat cereal/whatever healthy cereal we have....I'm guessing 1/2 cup here.
A large handful of frosted mini-wheats
1 1/2- 2 cups of milk
1 slice of organic sprouted bread
Always feel energetic and ready to get the day started after this breakfast, even when I get up at at 5:20 a.m. to ride.
06-11-06, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by caligurl
well? what did you end up having for brekky?
Long story. I will keep it as concise as possible. Newborn kept my wife up all night thursday night. So I was feeling real bad about the fact that she was gonna have to deal with both kids saturday morning. It just so happened that my mom offered to watch him friday night (he is 8 weeks old).
So I went down there friday night. I was doing the ride with my dad anyhow.
So first off, I was a good 35 miles closer to the ride than I would have been. So I didn't have to get up as early. Plus my dad is one of those early risers so he had breakfast all ready when I woke up.
The downside is that it wasn't really what I would have chosen to eat, but it is hard to say "gee thanks for making breakfast. I'm not gonna eat it."
It was:
Bagel. Bagels are good, but it was one of those loaded ones, with salt garlic etc. I scraped off as much of the extra stuff as possible.
Eggs. Eggs are ok.
Sausage.
Coffee
Orange juice.
Not horrible, but a little heavy for me. Given the choice I would have done Oatmeal with bannanas, coffee, and maybe half a plain bagel.
Oh, and Caligirl, I am totally annoyed with Garmin now. But I will ***** about that over on motionbased.
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06-12-06, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Boudicca
Cold oatmeal. Take rolled oats and mix with milk. Add some raisins, chopped fruit (prepared the night before) and yoghurt for instant muesli. Glorious. I live on it all summer round, and then I switch to cooked oatmeal for the winter. If you use the slow-cook oatmeal you can even mix it the night before, but don't try that with the quick-cook stuff because it goes all squidgy.
Or instant oatmeal. Put two packets in a bowl with water and put in the microwave for the right amount of seconds, being careful to take it out before the wake-up "ping". Rinse bowl quietly when you are done and place in dishwasher.
And take a muffin for the road. I always get hungry two hours after I eat regardless of how big my breakfast is.
Or instant oatmeal. Put two packets in a bowl with water and put in the microwave for the right amount of seconds, being careful to take it out before the wake-up "ping". Rinse bowl quietly when you are done and place in dishwasher.
And take a muffin for the road. I always get hungry two hours after I eat regardless of how big my breakfast is.
