Stored glycogen consumption is determined by whether or not you effort is aerobic or anaerobic. If you stay purely aerobic, you can almost ride forever. But if you keep dipping into the anaerobic consumption (which can be a case of simply too much force on the pedals).... you can stuff your face with sugar and you will still bonk, you simply can't digest the carbs quick enough (~60g/1020Kj per hour) to make up for the consumption (my PM says I consume ~4,800Kj per hour at race pace). Either get stronger (so you have more aerobic capacity), or ride slower. FWIW, staying purely aerobic feels slug-like - I kills me to ride that slow.jamesn184 wrote:Actually did the 100k ride this morning and pulled up good after, had my 2nd water bottle as Gatorade which I drank from 1hr 45 onwards
Had my gel shot around 1hr 30mins & a protein/carb bar at 2hr 30mins..
Had no real headwind at all coming back which helped, overall kept up a total avg speed of 30.50km/hr and was maintain 35-37 on the flats
Going to have a crack at making rice cakes this week and use them to..
As an example - I'm aerobically very fit, but climbing two flights of stairs leaves me puffed out. On the bike, you can NEVER put your whole weight on the pedal, because it's always moving away under you - so the peak force is when you are first moving off in a big gear. The reason that stairs kill me is because I am lifting my whole body weight, and to do that I need all of my aerobic slow-twitch plus my fast twitch anaerobic muscle fibres.
And you haven't really bonked unless everthing gets a bit fuzzy and your balance is shot.
And then do a 9.5km 6% descent in that state...
