Thank you all for your insights and feedback. I'm feeling quite nervous and am trying to relieve the mental pressure. If I need to get bailed out, so be it. I don't know if I'm aiming too much too soon, sometimes it certainly feels that way when I assess how I feel after 2 - 3 hour rides. This, unfortunately, leads to personal sabotage so my diet has suffered these past 3 days. It's why I had said I wouldn't set goals for myself, because usually all I got was that psychological pressure that always leads to some form of sabotage. But I couldn't resist...
So I'm not dead set in doing the whole ride, just as much as I feel OK doing. I'll be by myself as my wife cannot come, but there is SAG support I've used in previous occasions. @Patrick: You are absolutely correct about how Maffetone describes the feeling or "correct" progress. I feel usually feel great durning the day after my rides, but my legs remain sore, my knees a bit and I'm taking a day between rides where I just go for a long walk, usually. I'm now reading his long book on endurance, and it's the principle of "Listen to your Body" the one I'm focusing on to give me my final green/red light. His insights about becoming fit aerobically and avoiding illness and injury hit a nerve. I think 8 weeks is still too soon, but I have to say I really enjoy the approach and how it's making me feel. Can't measure progress on speed yet, but definitely in being able to ride longer. Again, the insights on nutrition during the events are very valuable. I think I still have a long way to go before I become much better fat adapted, lose the weight I still have to lose and become much more aerobically fit. But at least I now know what the journey map is. Before, it was a dark puzzling mystery to me! I'll figure something out with all your suggestions and will start to try them to see what works for me and what doesn't. But nothing will accelerate the process so I'll just work on removing the pressure, enjoying the journey and listening to my body. Hope you're having a great long weekend! René On Saturday, May 28, 2016, Eric Karnes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rene- > > I went low carb / high fat this winter. And with the school year not quite > over, I have yet to do any really long rides yet this season. But...in one > of the Gary Taubes talks on YouTube (I forget which one), he mentions that > he often brings a water bottle full of chicken broth (in addition to water) > when he does intense workouts at the gym. As I said, I haven't tried it on > long rides. But during the first week of my diet transition, I found a cup > a day to be really helpful when I was feeling a bit weak from the 'carb > withdrawal.' > > Eric > > > On Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 2:41:27 AM UTC-4, René wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've been low carb high fat for about a year now, with some relapses. >> Lost the 40 lbs between May and October last year, then plateaued, probably >> went a bit off with and gained 10 lbs after the holidays which I've about >> just lost back again in the last 8 weeks, albeit slowly and with some >> relapses. >> >> 7 weeks ago, I also started riding aerobically after discovering the >> Maffetone method and signed up to do the 72 mile ride around Lake Tahoe >> next Sunday. >> >> During this "training period" I noticed that since I was already quite >> fat adapted, I had no trouble doing my bike rides on no food in the >> morning, and that ensuring I didn't exceed my Maximum Aerobic Function HR >> of 124 (for my sweet age) I started managing to do the longer rides I >> previously couldn't do without a lot of suffering and bonking. To stay in >> the aerobic base building zone, I mostly chose flat rides and on the short >> climbs I couldn't avoid, slowed to a crawl. Balance training I call it. >> >> Last Sunday, I did a 42 mile ride in just under 4 hours. This week I've >> ridden twice to work and back, total of 36 miles each day, just split in >> two rides. The afternoon rides home are with a very strong head/side wind, >> where again, I have to slow down significantly and take it like >> "meditation". Character building I call riding 18 miles with a constant >> headwind. >> >> On all these rides I only drink water, nothing else. But when I get home >> I feel like I can't keep riding. Once I rest a bit I feel fine, although my >> legs and my butt "feel" it. >> >> I don't think I can do the 72 mile ride next Sunday on just water, so I'm >> looking for some guidance and suggestions for how to fuel myself without >> making it all sugary with gels and the traditional cycling fuels. When I >> first did these long rides with Team in Training in 2005, I would finish so >> bloated from all the gels I needed to take just to keep going, and also the >> pace was too high for me. This time I'm riding by myself so I can control >> my pace and my nutrition. >> >> I'm also hoping that during the day of the ride, I'll somehow find a way >> to ride for 7 - 8 hours. Right now, it seems impossible as my longest ride >> has been 4 hours, and most of my rides are around 2 hours. Suggestions are >> also welcome. >> >> I know there is a lot of "mental" stuff needed to do these long rides, as >> well as more aerobic training and losing the other 40+ lbs I'm still >> carrying on me. I'm just hoping that persevering will make them truly >> enjoyable, vs. fighting to just finish them. >> >> I welcome any other tips as well regarding managing the long hours on the >> saddle. Frequency of stops to stretch out, rest the butt, hands, feet, >> etc.? I know I can always get bailed out if necessary, but I'm going to try >> to do the whole ride. >> >> Thanks for sharing your experience and feedback! >> >> I'm riding my Homer. Is anyone from this list going to do the ride as >> well? >> >> Best, >> >> René >> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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