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which brands do you like? best flavors? best performance? with caffeine? no caffeine?
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Fair enough. I like the ones that contain caffeine for my long rides. I suspect its mostly the caffeine I like.
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Coffee would have the exact same effect for a fraction of the price, ya know.
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Cant stand the stuff. Also not a tea fan.
MM- its not about being alert. Its for the flagging spirits on my 3hr+ rides.
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Why not ride with a companion? I do not mean just anyone. I am certain there are many decent people who would love to ride with you.
Even gypsies ride in groups.
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How in hell does that relate to BCAAs or her athletic aspirations?
Man, cheesiness is oozing out of your every orifice. You really should see a doctor... or an escort.
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Why not ride with a companion? I do not mean just anyone. I am certain there are many decent people who would love to ride with you.
Even gypsies ride in groups.
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Who are you to criticize a single other member when as of 3:37 A.M. on March 8, 2017 your profile page is totally blank?
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Hi Dirty D: I'm not convinced BCAA's are the answer for flagging spirits during long rides but I've only used them as part of a weight training regimen. I used to ride 800km a week with many 5-6 hour rides. Are you eating enough during rides? I mean real food; fruit, muffins, sandwiches, chicken, rice, gorp rather than hi-tech gels or bars (I do use gels and bars too) I used to eat like a pig and never bonked. On the rare occasion I felt myself flagging it was always due to lack of food or water intake, usually at the 2 - 3 hour mark which suggests a link to depleted glycogen stores. I have never used caffeine for rides but try it and see what works.
You might also try new training routes or just a long ride with no HRM or cyclocomputer. Change things up, try something crazy. What do you think about when you ride, do you let your mind wander? Read everything fitness related you can get your hands on: nutrition, cycling, sports psychology heck even Zen Buddhism; I bet you find something that helps. I never found any one source in a book or a coach that was 100% 'on' in all situations. No offense to your coach who I'm sure is eminently more qualified than me but sometimes you have to find something new.
Sounds like you have a very demanding training regimen. How is your pulse rate in the morning? Maybe you are over-training? Do you have a rest day?
And huge hats off for challenging yourself!!!
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There's only one Belgian Civil Aviation Authority, so I'm not really sure what brands you're all referring to
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(...) but those bcaa's were a lifesaver there when I wasnt fueling as i should have.
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Who are you to criticize a single other member when as of 3:37 A.M. on March 8, 2017 your profile page is totally blank?
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Hey Miss D: thanx for the baby food packet idea! 12 hour mountain bike race???!!!!! Now THAT'S impressive!!! I'd be crashing over every second pebble and tree root in the last half of that ride.
Have you tried melatonin to help you sleep? Might help with duration or quality of sleep but check out the potential side effects or interactions with other meds. Night shift wreaks havoc on the body's natural sleep patterns and I'd guess your schedule makes sleep a challenge. I use melatonin sparingly and have never noticed a negative impact on the following day's performance but then I am not at your level so a fractional difference may be more noticeable to you. Alternatively you may find Valerian Root helpful for sleep too.
Hope you meet and surpass all your goals, after reading your posts I'm dying to get out for a ride!
But how the hell did you find time to write all those EP's and RR's???
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Just to reiterate because I'd hate to see you waste your money...
I hate to burst your bubble, but using BCAAs for endurance purposes is like buying a box of Cracker Jack solely for the shoddy surprise that's inside.
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Don't worry about it. He gets his feathers ruffled very easily.
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I completely agree that caffeine doesn't help with long term endurance. but it does have a place.
RE:the help when I bonked, it's well established that buccal routes are faster ways to absorb and utilize, plus liquids are digested faster. So the time it took to recover from improper fueling/bonk was much less than it would have taken if i had just taken a tablet(not something easily done on the bike anyway) and eaten a lara bar. Besides, I rather like the way the watermelon tastes and I end up hydrating better, something I struggle to do anyway. So the cost isn't terrible, $20/2 months or so and the peripheral benefits are useful, even if it doesn't make a perceptible difference.
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This is some footage of the trails I raced on(not race footage), ended up with a pretty sweet trophy for 2nd place female solo
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Don't worry about it. He gets his feathers ruffled very easily.
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Thank you Roy!!
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I see a bromance forming... how lovely!
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Thank you Roy!!
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Don't thank me yet. I'm betting he will pm you with a message that contains 14 paragraphs and 12 marked up illustrations on how you are wrong.
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Now now, there's hardly any necessity to project your particular case of butthurt into my own personal pursuits.
I don't recall ever sending the kind of message that you're describing to anyone on Lush, and insignificant specimens like you or Mr. Cornball certainly wouldn't be the kind of persons to warrant that kind of consideration anyway. Look, I'm well aware that I'm a major threat to your petty cyber-existence and that I'm occupying a ginormous space in your mind (which you've validated time and again by the fanatical attention that you keep offering me), but please don't be silly and assume that any of that is reciprocated coming from me.
Anyway little man, what are your thoughts on BCAAs?
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