Ravitaillement

Chris Tree

28th July 2009 04:53pm

1) Probar, superfood slam flavour www.theprobar.com
2) Luna bars (any flavour) OK so they are for girls, but, i tell you, these are man-boobs.
3) Chicken harissa on Brown, from the Eden Food Co, Maidstone, Kent

and post ride pasta…

4)Chicken Alla Pollo, McKenzies Cafe Bar, West Malling, Kent… Awesome Food, Awesome waitresses

Dave Wyman

28th July 2009 05:32pm

For my own last "Glory Through Suffering Ride" - from Tuolumne Meadows, in Yosemite National Park, California, to the town of Lee Vining and back, a few days ago, I carried:

- 1 Clif Bar
- 2 Gu packets
- Two water bottles, each half-filled with water and Gatorade
- Two electrolyte tablets (thanks to a suggestion by Dominic Primé, one of the riders on the Rapha Continental to Arizona a few weeks ago)

All that helped me ride 40 miles and climb 4000+ feet, to just under 10,000 feet - a little over 3000 meters - above sea level.

Akihiro Sato

28th July 2009 05:42pm

Many japanese riders appreciate "yo-kan" and "dora-yaki". Both are japanese traditional sweets.

Alex Murray

28th July 2009 10:51pm

Jelly Babies (preferably Bassett's) and the classic Sandwich Jambon Buerre never fail me.

James Wilson

30th July 2009 06:10pm

Dates, peanut butter and jelly and a dill pickle will get you through anything. If you know morale will be an issue on a long day some toffee, cashews and another pickle can be added.

Dave Wyman

31st July 2009 08:00pm

I might as well add what I ate on the Rapha Continental "Chinle" ride, on which I served as ride host: not enough.

For the first 47 mostly flat, hot miles I did drink a bottle+ of Gatorade, and one Gu packet. That wasn't enough, because at the end of those 47 miles, at a rest stop, my legs were like wooden blocks, my breakfast wanted out, and stationary with no cooling airflow, my body felt like it was on fire.

Twenty minutes later, I'd made what at the time I thought was a miraculous recovery. In truth, my revitalization was due to consuming, in no particular order:

- another Gu packet
- a Clif Bar
- two electrolyte tablets
- more Gatorade
- a can of diet Coke
- water
- a giant, salty Navajo pickle (and I probably would have benefited from peanut butter and jelly, as per James Wilson's comment, above)

For the rest of the ride I kept eating and drinking, and for the rest of the ride, I felt good, as good as one can on a 100 mile ride. (By the way, some of my own photos of the event, pink-bordered in honor of Rapha styling, are here: http://icyclist.blogspot.com/2009/07/rapha-continental-century-ride-around.html

Tim Bishop

3rd August 2009 01:22pm

Try:
1. Pre ride: Expresso
2. Kedjery (variation on Tour breakfast as recommended by Armstrong, L)
3. Mid ride: Malt Loaf, but watch out for the trasition can result in sticky handlebars!
4. Post ride: Hot, strong tea (best served in autumn, winter & UK summer)

Done.