Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!mupmalis From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Highway Hypnosis (actually energy for the road) Message-ID: <8475@watarts.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 23:05:42 EDT Article-I.D.: watarts.8475 Posted: Sat Jun 8 23:05:42 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Jun-85 03:39:58 EDT References: <205@bocklin.UUCP> <568@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 33 Summary: In article <568@ihlpg.UUCP> fish@ihlpg.UUCP (Bob Fishell) writes: >This has happened to me when I've tried to do too much, too fast. >However, I suspect that O2 is not what's in short supply; rather, >it's blood sugar. I get light-headed if I ride long distances >when I've been trying to lose weight by dieting. If I have >a hearty lunch before a long ride, there's no problem. > >Your blood sugar is at its lowest late in the day, after work and >before dinner, especially if you skimp on lunch and drink a lot >of coffee. Next time, slurp down some O.J. before heading out, >or even take along a water bottle full of the stuff. It will >keep your blood sugar up and your brain fueled. Some slight suggestions, a lot of energy/concentration problems can be pointed back to a lack of water not sugar... Biking is a fairly eficient form of transportation and people usually deplete of H2O before sugar... Drink OJ before if you want, however water ( slightly cool) is the quickest absorbed back in and anything else OJ, Milk, Pop and especially Gatorade (blech, tastes bad and is bad..) comes backin slower.. load up on water.. also take sugar directly is the sledge hammer approach to energy, starches, espceially from complex carbohydrates that the body can break down into sugars or in long term glycogen (muscle fuel) is the key to distance... A note about sugar, game shows (Let's make a deal in particular) would feed contestants *sugar* donuts and coffee just before the show, they would peak and boy would they crash.... Sugar is ok, just not usefull for distance/touring work.. -- ~~ Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts)