PH wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021, 3:02pm
LittleGreyCat wrote: ↑15 Apr 2021, 8:44pm
Well, I did tell you that I can ride 5 hours without the bonk.
If that isn't evidence in practice than I'm not sure what you are continually asking for.
I frequently do that, on 200km Audax I like to have just the one stop, so 5 hours, eat, another 5 hours. Doesn't have anything to do with keto.
I ride with some who need to snack constantly.
We're all different, please don't confuse anecdote with data.
With respect, and I am aware that we are drifting between science and faith, but are you sure that you didn't enter ketosis?
I have had a misunderstanding with others when discussing ketosis where the other party assumed that I was talking about the training regime where you switch into keto mode part way through the exercise when glucose supplies run out.
I recall discussing this with someone who said that they had tried it but ketosis didn't work.
Turned out that they were eating carbohydrates but attempting to switch to ketones during exercise but found the transition too hard.
Meanwhile I was talking from a position of being in permanent dietary ketosis (as shown by urine strips and finger prick blood tests) not just entering ketosis part way through exercise.
Without you testing for ketones after your 5 hour session (I assume that you haven't, but please say if you have) there is no real indication whether you have been exercising for 5 hours on glucose stores (which is unusual) or if you are one of the lucky ones who can switch seamlessly between fat burning and carbohydrate burning.
It is interesting (but not scientific proof) that you ride with others who have to snack constantly.
I ride with others who have to stop to refuel with carbohydrates, when I am fine.
All I know is that I am usually in dietary ketosis and this allows me to usually ride without refuelling when others feel the need to stop and eat.
Scientists such as Volek and Phinney provide a research background to this.