70.3 Nutrition hypotheticals

Thanks.....to you both.

Now, my endurance mix (Gatorade) gets me about 160 cal's in that bottle. 3x24oz.=72 oz.-- 480 cal's. On my long training rides, I'm not taking in anywhere near the 300 cal's/hr. I hear mentioned a lot. I'm probably taking in 2-300, total (in addition to what's in my hydration). I've done bricks of up to 4 mi. off that......but never 13.1.

Would a good goal to shoot for be to maybe get an extra 100 cal's/hr on the bike....for a total of 780.....then maybe take a couple gels with me on the run? If I do it this way, I never have to stop on the bike course.

Thanks for your help.

Edited by nc452010 2016-07-27 12:21 PM

Most people have an easier time getting more calories in on the bike because there is no jostling.

People go different ways with this. Some people like to take all their calories on the bike in liquid form. You can use a mix like Infinit or CarboPro, GU Roctane or any other mix that is x calories per scoop of powder. Then you figure out how many calories you want per hour and mix your bottles accordingly. So you get your needed calories in 20 ounces of water that you will drink per hour.

The other way is to keep calories separate from hydration. So you know you will have water or Gatorade but you are going to add to that calories in the form of bonk breakers, or sweet potato or gu gels or chomps or whatever to get your xx calories per hour.

You will never come anywhere close to replacing calories burned while you exercise but you don't want to be too far behind because once you begin to feel depleted it's hard to recover during the race.

hope that helps.

I've been trying to improve on hydration / nutrition. Doing my first 70.3 in a month. I've been going with Gatorade endurance on my rides and packing 3 bottles (@150 cal/bottle) but haven't been able to choke them all down on my 3+ hr long rides. I've been thinking about going with 2 Gatorade endurance and 1 water to see if that helps me get stuff down. then I've been supplementing with either gu's cliff blocks or sport beans (1 serve 100 cal per hour). still experimenting with what I can tolerate / want to ingest over long haul. I have about the same 4 mi brick run after my long rides and carry a bottle and 1 gu or 1 serving of cliff bloks (100 cal). I'm right around the 190# mark as well. With the temps crazy high lately I'm really working on getting my hydration up and getting the nutrition in. I've really been struggling on my runs with these 90+ degree days.