Cycling long distance
After riding 3 hours and covering about 60km in my Betong(Thailand) to Penang ride, my right thigh started to ache, to a point that I could not go on anymore. Questions started to go through my mind as to why this was happening. Was it because I have lost too much sweat? maybe a hundred plus would help? or it was just pure fatique?
I alighted, rested under a tree, raised my leg for 15-20minutes and gave it a massage. And it helped, even though the pain did not dissappear totally but I was able to continue my journey for the next hour or so, until I came to a petrol kiosk where I bought myself a can of hundred plus, an ice cream and rested for another 15minutes. I had 2 bananas and a plate of "kau man gai" (chicken rice) for break fast in Betong, another 2 bananas for lunch along the way. Maybe this wasn't good enough sustenance for such a long ride?
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I feel if you cycle long distance for say four or five days in a stretch your bowel habits would be somehow affected. It's just inevitable that sometimes you have to skip the toilet early in the morning to start your ride. Is there any 'best practices' to prepare ourselves for such a ride in order that we can still maintain our regualar bowel habits???
Why do you got to skip your toilet in morning before ride? It is call bowel HABIT, for obvious reason because it is a habit and a habit is done regularly and routinely. I would ease myself no matter how busy or long the ride is. If there is no proper toilet facilities, there is also nature needing some fertilising!!!
So I would eat as I normally would, forget abt " what husks seeds" and do my business as usual as a habit.
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If I have to catch a bus say 5.30am, I have to get up 4am to drown myself with a gallon of water or sit in the toilet for half an hour, which I feel is really impractical and unnatural habit.
The situation is a bit different with cycling. I can get up say 7am and spend the next hour or 2 perhaps eating something, drink some green tea and hopefully I can finish my job beofre I start my ride. But there were also times when I got a bit anxious thinking and worrying about what to do tomorrow and this made lose my sleep and upset my rythm and yet I have to push on early in the morning. So what I did was to prepare to stop anywhere along the road, dig a hole.. -dread using the public toilets. But if I procastinate, you can guess the consequences.
That should help. I try to wake up early, say, an hour before the ride and start drinking a lot of water with empty stomach, say 500cc at least. Of course, during the dinner before sleep eat lots of green leaves definitely helps to move the bowel too...;)
Have done that, does not work all the time.
I'm a great fan of fresh veg and fruits, most times i survive on fruits and veg; even carry small thai timbun and bananas with me when I cycle.
Phycillium husk is quite good but I dont know if there is any side effects if taken frquently on long term.
For the benefit for someone who does not know what is that(I don't!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium_seed_husks
Probably different people different physique. But lot of water and greens do work for me...;)
Hmm...
Power bar, banana, coca cola, guiness stout, 100 Plus etc etc, these are the stuffs that sworn by some that would help to sustain your ride.
I find the following energy drink helps too:
water + honey + light salt(half tea spoon for 1 L of water).