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by Mattie
2 Apr 2009, 8:12am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Stimulating your appetite?
Replies: 22
Views: 1216

Re: Stimulating your appetite?

kwackers wrote:
Mattie wrote:Power Bar energy gels from my (marathon running) experience. Two is usually enough for that, and they are easy to carry.



Sure it's not all in the mind? I need around 4000 calories to run a marathon for my mass, difficult to see how 200 calories from whatever source is going to do any good.
(Plus I find it annoying to see the roads and bushes full of energy gel wrappers)

Cycling tends to be less intense and longer than running, I reckon little and often of whatever you fancy for a long cycle. Running I'm happy with just water.


I thought the problem was running out of energy on a ride for which energy gels are a very good solution. Your muscles and liver already have a store of Glycogen energy and it is when these energy sources run out that you bonk or hit the wall. I have run many marathons including New York, Chicago, Berlin, Dubai and Paris (four times).

I can reccommend a book SPORTS NUTRITION FOR ENDURANCE ATHLETES - by Monique Ryan
by Mattie
31 Mar 2009, 10:01pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Stimulating your appetite?
Replies: 22
Views: 1216

Re: Stimulating your appetite?

Power Bar energy gels from my (marathon running) experience. Two is usually enough for that, and they are easy to carry.
by Mattie
30 Mar 2009, 9:49pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Road atlas showing campsites?
Replies: 4
Views: 445

Re: Road atlas showing campsites?

My only suggestion is the Michelin regional maps, the 500 series . I have just noticed that the Portuguese and Spanish (593,575,576) regional maps have the campsites marked but the French one (512) does not.
by Mattie
11 Mar 2009, 8:23pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Clicking BB
Replies: 15
Views: 947

Re: Clicking BB

Is it an Aluminium frame ?
This happened to my old Indian Fire Trail. It would click when you stood up on the pedals and tanked it side to side. No amount of tightening cured it. I put in a new shimano B Bracket with some thread sealant ! and there it remained until I got rid of the bike. No more clicking though.
by Mattie
2 Mar 2009, 10:56pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Touring tent
Replies: 91
Views: 21419

Re: Touring tent

New to the world of lightweight tents I have gone for the MSR Hubba fo my Portugal,Spain,France trip this summer. The groundsheet seems a bit thin for stony ground so will either get the extra footprint or some mypex from the garden centre - but it will need something under it.
by Mattie
24 Feb 2009, 11:02pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Airports with cycle-friendly feeder roads
Replies: 37
Views: 4687

Bergerac airport (South of France) 3 miles outside Bergerac town with little traffic.

Ideal alternative to flying into Bordeaux.
by Mattie
23 Feb 2009, 9:53pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: plans for 2009
Replies: 26
Views: 3002

Hello everyone

Fly to Faro in the summer, and spend 1 month cycling my way back towards St Malo. If I have to do the last bit by train - no matter.

I have a lovely new Ridgeback Panorama for the job

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