Poll

What food would you like most 80km into a long brevet?

CAKE/Sweet pudding ± custard
TOAST ± beans/ jacket spud
Stew/curry/chilli
Cereals/Fruit salad/yogurt
Pork Pies/Pasties, CHIPS
Other (please specify)
Full English Breakfast
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hellymedic

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[LEL17] Food for long (>400km) brevets Part I
« on: 03 August, 2017, 07:30:55 pm »
People have differing needs along a long ride. I'd like to see what people think will 'hit the spot' for them.

Some folk will only know what they want as they approach a control...
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Ben T

Re: Food for long (>400km) brevets Part I
« Reply #1 on: 03 August, 2017, 11:05:37 pm »
Rice pudding. Not sure why anything else is needed.
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hellymedic

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Re: Food for long (>400km) brevets Part I
« Reply #2 on: 03 August, 2017, 11:22:46 pm »
At what point do you like your rice pudding?

I DRANK it at the end of the Great Eastern 1000km but hadscant interest in it earlier.
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Ben T

Re: Food for long (>400km) brevets Part I
« Reply #3 on: 04 August, 2017, 09:54:55 am »
Personally If I get to the point where I don't feel I can eat anything else I can always eat rice pudding.
Not sure about consistency, drinkable not necessarily a problem but should be at least fairly viscous. Runny, no.
Another theory: I think it's not so much the distance that causes indigestion as night riding. I don't normally get it on daytime 300s but on that one through cheshire to newtown at night that stops at dinkys diner I couldn't eat anything - with anything fatty like bacon being the least appealing. But could have easily ate rice pudding. Did manage some fruit though.
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T42

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Re: Food for long (>400km) brevets Part I
« Reply #4 on: 04 August, 2017, 03:27:43 pm »
Depends on the brevet. 80k in isn't much so, assuming I had had adequate food before starting I'd be after patisseries & coffee.  I'm a glutton for croissants when I'm allowed them, i.e. when I'm cycling. Flan - a bit like a custard tart - is good too.

In the absence of a good feed pre-start I'd be looking for friands, the French equivalent of sausage rolls.  The bakeries will microwave them for you.

On PBP I had banana/chocolate sandwiches along for the 70k mark.
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Re: Food for long (>400km) brevets Part I
« Reply #5 on: 04 August, 2017, 04:38:14 pm »
I've become somewhat addicted to Mini Cheddars as a source of audax sustenance, as I can eat them even when my stomach is all over the place. Similar salty crackers or toast can hit the spot. Normal crisps, less so.
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jiberjaber

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Re: Food for long (>400km) brevets Part I
« Reply #6 on: 04 August, 2017, 04:59:12 pm »
From a recent bike ride I have just ridden on, I'd say flapjack & pro-plus.

Rice pudding & fruit gets my vote, after the first 3 controls I was fed up of the same old pasta/rice or spud option, later, if it could be eaten(*), then it was in trouble!

(* and wasn't food of the devil, mushroom, cucumber etc...)
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Joergen
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