>>2051566Look:
You're using 10 Mcal a day when you're on tour. Assuming you're not a lard this means you will need to eat what you eat on any other day, 3 times on that day. Like if you did a full day of eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ofc it wont work like that but it's the equivalent
Regarding being a lardass: The rate at ehich the body can draw energy from a certain amount of fatty tissue is severely limited. Think of a battery that you can hardly draw any current from but you can do so for ages. The rate is below 2% a day. In other words: You can metabolise around 75kcal / kg of fatty tissue per day while you can metabolise around 4500 kcal in total from 1 kg.
This also means, to get all your energy for a fully day of proper cycling from stores, you'll need 133 kg of fatty tissue. So if you weigh in at 180kg: You should be fine continously at maximum excertion without food. If you have 10 kg of fat on you you can, at most, get 750 kcal from that per day. You need to eat the remaibing 9250 or your body will cannibalise god knows what. Worst case break down even your heart muscle for energy (your body can do that).
So make sure you smash that shit.
Oh and don't do anything stupid. It's really painfull to ride a bike with 3 large plates of spaghetti and a big steak in your belly. Get energy dense nibbling stuff for a feedbag.
>>2051564>beginner mistakefor me it was always clear the upside of riding hard all day is that I get to munch snacks all day.
