Bike Nutrition Notes, Hill Ride

Road ride with a ton of hills today. So much I couldn't fit all the planned hills into the ride. Not going to post the route just to say up Somerville Rd area, Allen, then into Lake rd hill set. Just under 3:00 at 2:53. Whatever I'm doing is working. I'm able to grind out 3000-4000 feet of vertical in those 3 hours with no problem. Ended up with a 13.9 pace which is good for me, considering the total climbing.

Preride meal was the same as yesterday without the banana. Just wasn't hungry enough.

Tested Gatorade and salt on bike this time. Started with Accelerade (2 sccops) and Emergen-C (1) plus 1/8 tsp salt in each bottle. Filled up 3rd bottle with Gatorade, EmergenC, salt for the 3rd. Lower calories in that bottle made it refreshing. Makes me think that switching it up for a longer ride (ie, 24 hours) is going to keep the fluids moving faster. Did not keep up with 32 ounces per hour of water intake but did not seem the worse for it. Probably could have used a little more liquid but no big deal.

Second day in a row that 3 Endurox after the ride didn't sit well in the stomach. I'm thinking that pulling in the correct number of calories per hour leaves me less "accepting" to the Endurox after the ride. This is fine since the on-the-bike food is more important than the after ride food.