Hi,
Power nap at least once for 30 minutes during the ride / even twice for 20 minutes and you will feel fine.
After 12 hrs your apitite goes slow so you almost have to force feed youself after 12 hrs in.
Eating is important to avoid the bonk and rest part way through to avoid meltdown.
Good luck
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NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑7 Aug 2022, 6:08pm
Hi,
Power nap at least once for 30 minutes during the ride / even twice for 20 minutes and you will feel fine.
After 12 hrs your apitite goes slow so you almost have to force feed youself after 12 hrs in.
Eating is important to avoid the bonk and rest part way through to avoid meltdown.
Good luck
Thanks also at what temp would you consider not riding an audax? It's above 30 next weekend? Ride or not?!
NATURAL ANKLING wrote: ↑7 Aug 2022, 6:08pm
Hi,
Power nap at least once for 30 minutes during the ride / even twice for 20 minutes and you will feel fine.
After 12 hrs your apitite goes slow so you almost have to force feed youself after 12 hrs in.
Eating is important to avoid the bonk and rest part way through to avoid meltdown.
Good luck
Thanks also at what temp would you consider not riding an audax? It's above 30 next weekend? Ride or not?!
That’ll depend on how you cope with heat. Remember it’s only hot through the middle of the day. Curl up under a hedge and have a nap.
Always remember a m8 of mine on a very hot PBP pulled up went behind a hedge and dropped his shorts to let the air flow hit is nether regions he was so hot.
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James, I gather this ride is more of a whim rather than something like an Audax ride - we usually see K rides meaning Audax than just tootling along the road - so no time limit and no real reason to ride than - just because?
From a physical perspective doing the ride over several days makes sense to me and attempting it in 24 hours seemed like setting yourself up for some form of failure. However, unless you’re doing the ride for pleasure the economics of it seem in question. Coach travel isn’t great but it’s usually affordable and it will give you more time at your end destination, hotels and B&B’s cost money and quite a bit of it (more than paying for transport). I applaud your decision to cycle and wish you well, but the logistics make me wonder how well that option will serve you.
Don’t fret, it’s OK to: ride a simple old bike; ride slowly, walk, rest and admire the view; ride off-road; ride in your raincoat; ride by yourself; ride in the dark; and ride one hundred yards or one hundred miles. Your bike and your choices to suit you.
Jamesh wrote: ↑11 Aug 2022, 8:24am
The logistics aren't an issue....
I could take car or my camper van and be there in 5hrs.
But for me the ride is important to me!
That was the situation I was hoping for, but peoples’ circumstances can vary enormously.
Don’t fret, it’s OK to: ride a simple old bike; ride slowly, walk, rest and admire the view; ride off-road; ride in your raincoat; ride by yourself; ride in the dark; and ride one hundred yards or one hundred miles. Your bike and your choices to suit you.
Don’t fret, it’s OK to: ride a simple old bike; ride slowly, walk, rest and admire the view; ride off-road; ride in your raincoat; ride by yourself; ride in the dark; and ride one hundred yards or one hundred miles. Your bike and your choices to suit you.
Cycling long distances in hot weather is not as daft is it might appear. At speeds above walking pace you have a breeze in your face, so evaporation and cooling do happen. It is when you stop that you feel the heat most. But over a hot day you need a good few litres of water. You cannot economise on water use. I'd be using a big bottle at least every hour, so if I only had two I'd be looking to top up every two hours. That can be problem, logistically.