On Monday, May 25, 2020 at 3:45:17 AM UTC-7, Duane wrote:
jbeattie wrote:
On Sunday, May 24, 2020 at 8:20:03 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 5/23/2020 6:07 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
Have any of you been on a ride where you've bonked to the point that
every single pedal stroke no matter how low a gear you're in or how
calm the winds are, feels like it's all you can do to get that crankarm
past the 12 0'clock position?
If so, how long did it take you to recover so that you were able to
ride at your normal pace again?
If you ate soon after bonking, how long did it take you to then recover
enough to ride further?
Cheers
Yes. It came on suddenly with severe fatigue and darkened
vision I could barely stand once off the bike. Riding
partner was in about the same state, 80~85 miles into a cool
wet windy century. We sat on the road for a couple of
minutes, then walked over to the field corn, ate some of it
raw, and were both just fine some ten minutes later.
Gak. You can break your teeth on field corn. My most colorful bonking
story was riding back home from Santa Cruz over the mountains, absolutely
running out of gas and stopping at the CalFire (then California Division
of Forestry) station on Skyline and begging the resident fire fighters
for food. They gave me some carrot stubs left over from something they
were cooking up for dinner, which was enough to get me the 500 meters (or
so) to the long down hill into civilization. I still had to ride back to
SJ, but stopped for a sustaining chili dog at Happy Hound in Los Gatos. I
don't bonk much these days. I just run out of gas, which cannot be fixed
with a gel pack or chili dog.
-- Jay Beattie.
Some people can do chilli dogs or cheeseburgers on rides but it kills me.
Maybe at the end with a cold beer but not during a ride.
I was really hungry and wanted some real food after bonking, and I was only ten miles from home, all flat city -- so I wasn't too worried about my stomach getting knotted up.
I rarely ever stop in the middle of a long ride to eat, and I never eat anything heavy. Sitting down and eating makes it too hard to get going again with my old joints, and I only do that when riding in groups or with friends.. When I stop with friends these days, its typically at a coffee shop to warm up in winter/spring. No meat.
BTW, I thought of you last weekend on a ride when I had to stop to pee. It's not like I'm holding it for the whole ride, I just usually don't have to pee. Right he
https://tinyurl.com/ycuhmp9d A pioneer church porta-potty.
-- Jay Beattie.