Hello David
I’ve been training pretty hard for the Sydney to Surfers ride with some decent 120 km + rides on the weekends and 60-70 km rides during the week.
I did a 105 km ride to the top of ‘Best of all Lookout’ at the top of Springbrook – that’s the elevation profile below. It’s a rather large hill!
I actually did it okay, but my brother who came with me really struggled. I dropped him on the hills really early and he drafted pretty much the entire ride.
We both had HEED and the gels during the ride.
We did another long ride the next day (but a lot flatter) and he was back to his usual self. About as good (or should that be “as bad”) a rider as me.
7 Beers The Night Before – Is That Carbo Loading?!
Turns out he’d had 7 stubbies of beer the night before the Springbrook ride.
Would 7 beers knock you around that much? I would have thought they’d make you feel a little seedy, but not slow you down as much as he did.
Cheers
Brendon
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