by willhub
Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:19 pm
I'm wanting to know how I could better prepare myself for the long sunday runs, especially the ryedale rumble.
I find alot I get headaches even though I drink plenty of water and I wonder if I need some special cycling drink or whatever and maybe different foods?
I take plenty of snack bars, about 10 snack bars with oats in each time, got 2 water bottles.
In between the sunday rides I usually have a day off after, prefer it to recovery rides, then the day after that I do a short but hard ride, well at least hard for me, for exampel today I did 26miles and I average 20.3mph and I included abit of a drag on that then a descending down hill drag into head wind I think. I think these have been making me improve slightly as I am noticing I am getting faster, even on the windy days my average is hardly going down and I'm finding it easier to keep up high speeds and do quick fast 30+mph sprints.
Should I alter my diet? I dont really have one at the moment, its more like an average joes diet at the moment, some days we have pizza, some nights I have beer, some days we have sunday dinner etc..
Dont know if I am going about stuff the wrong way or what but any advice will be helpful.
Thanks
Willz.
I find alot I get headaches even though I drink plenty of water and I wonder if I need some special cycling drink or whatever and maybe different foods?
I take plenty of snack bars, about 10 snack bars with oats in each time, got 2 water bottles.
In between the sunday rides I usually have a day off after, prefer it to recovery rides, then the day after that I do a short but hard ride, well at least hard for me, for exampel today I did 26miles and I average 20.3mph and I included abit of a drag on that then a descending down hill drag into head wind I think. I think these have been making me improve slightly as I am noticing I am getting faster, even on the windy days my average is hardly going down and I'm finding it easier to keep up high speeds and do quick fast 30+mph sprints.
Should I alter my diet? I dont really have one at the moment, its more like an average joes diet at the moment, some days we have pizza, some nights I have beer, some days we have sunday dinner etc..
Dont know if I am going about stuff the wrong way or what but any advice will be helpful.
Thanks
Willz.