What made you tired today?

I haven’t ridden a bike since about 1964…she’s probably a Grandmother now 🙂

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Cycling from Chesham to White Waltham and back (50 miles total) has made me tired! I wanted to save the £5 petrol, but got so hungry and thirsty I ended up spending £6 on essential supplies.

The bike is a good Trek road-bike, and it is a very do-able trip, but I ‘bonked’
on the way back and had to walk up some very shallow hills:mad:

More care needed in nutrition I think, perhaps some slow-release carbs.

I haven’t ridden a bike since about 1964…she’s probably a Grandmother now 🙂

I’m still tired today off yesturdays dance lesson …. but I think it must be doing well if I can feel the pain in my muscle!

Having to get up so bloody early in the morning because I have to leave early to avoid the traffic build-up on the bypass because that stupid bloody agency couldn’t get me an assignment any closer, or on a bus route!

Not to mention I came within a ba’hair of meeting my maker no less than five times yesterday…

my son! and his games.

Thanks for the explanation Neil.. although personally i’m knackered after 12 miles, let alone 55.!

For the benefit of the unenlightened…….;) (Pod3TV)

”How to ride a bike – Bonking on a bicycle
Submitted by neil on Sat, 07/26/2008 – 13:28.
The Bonk.

It’s a horrible, horrible experience.

Usually happens in hot weather – dehydration being a contributing factor.

It’s the total and sudden debilitating loss of energy and onset of fatigue and weakness, the result of the stores of glycogen in the liver and muscles becoming depleted.

When this happens in hot weather, it feels like your entire body is going to melt into the sun-softened black tarmac, every slight incline becomes a major climb, the slightest breeze becomes a full on gale, and your mind sinks into total and utter blackness of despair.

As you become more experienced in cycling, and if you cycle enough you’re almost certain to experience the Bonk – even (especially) racers; even pro riders such as Lance Armstrong have suffered with this, you’ll get to know your body and pick up the early warning signs. Cycling in hot weather, such as today, is a high risk day if you don’t drink enough fluid. On hot mornings, it’s easy to skip breakfast – but that boost of carbohydrates is essential, as is eating a good mix of carbs, proteins and fats the evening before.

A couple of weeks ago I did my 55 mile route. Usually this is easy enough to do, elapsed time being circa 4 hours, riding time 3.5, with 2 x 15 min stops for refreshments. On this occasion it was warm – not baking like today – and windy. I got to my second stop, in Amersham, and realised I hadn’t taken enough cash for drinks AND flapjack at Costa Coffee, so I went for the drinks. I’d already felt a twinge of hunger in Bourne End, some miles before Amersham, and thought I was going to suffer on the way back.

I did consider shortening the route, but thought WTF, let’s just do it… and I was OK actually until within 500 pedal strokes of home, I tried “sprinting” up a slope.. and the legs just refused to go – no zip or zing… I sat up and ground my way to the top of this pimple – pace for pace being matched by a young lad still on stabilisers, his legs whizzing around in a blur! haha!! Bless him… quite comical really, me being all togged out in racing gear…

Not quite the bonk, but my immediate stores of energy were depleted – and even if it was the dread Bonk, I was within falling over distance of my house… but had this happened with 20 miles to go I’d have really struggled to get back. Today I did the same route, back by midday to avoid the heat of the afternoon, and it was a breeze… just by way of additional info I weighed myself before and after the ride. 10st 10lbs before, 10st 7lbs after, even though I’d consumed over a litre of fluid on the way around!

To prevent this form of bonking, stock up on carbs the day before and ensure your breakfast has a good carb base – porridge for example. Eat carbs on the way around, sports drinks are formulated to give a dose of carbs as well as proteins and caffeine is included too as current theory is that caffeine, though a diuretic, speeds up the processing of carbs into energy.

Post ride you should eat something – low GI carbs are apparently favoured – but I really struggle to eat anything for up to a couple of hours after a ride. I can just about manage yoghurt with fruit and mixed nuts. For four hours after riding, the body will convert food into energy at a much faster rate than usual, for recovery purposes. If you are going to ride the next day as well, this post ride eat is therefore really important.

I have nothing to say about any other form of bonking on a bicycle, other than take extreme care

Cheers!

Neil

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you’d have to be quite skilled to do it on a bike :p

late nights early mornings made me tired…driving round with a friend till 1am not actually doing anything lol

then going to NEAM at 10am to do graft

The bike is a good Trek road-bike, and it is a very do-able trip, but I ‘bonked’
on the way back and had to walk up some very shallow hills:mad:

‘Bonking’ at any time is enough to make one tired… but doing it on a bikeride?..:p;)

Cycling from Chesham to White Waltham and back (50 miles total) has made me tired! I wanted to save the £5 petrol, but got so hungry and thirsty I ended up spending £6 on essential supplies.

The bike is a good Trek road-bike, and it is a very do-able trip, but I ‘bonked’
on the way back and had to walk up some very shallow hills:mad:

More care needed in nutrition I think, perhaps some slow-release carbs.

Are you taking that horrible arthritis drug Prednisolone…one of the main side effects is insomnia. 🙁

I have not heard that drugs name since I was in my twenties. I was put on a course for an Asthma attack. We had moved house and I assumed it was the move etc that triggard it off. Its nothing to do with this thread really, I can’t even say I was particurly tired from it iether but then I had been in hospital and was recuperating.:D
I just wanted to share that.

Refereeing my sons U12 football match.. which they lost 4-0.!:(

Driving a bl**dy Taxi around St Annes for 13 Hours last night:D

Three hours in bed last night before taking a taxi from the El Greco Hotel in Bucharest to the airport, then checking in 5 flight cases of my camera equipment, then an argument with KLM about excess baggage charges, before a delayed flight to Amsterdam, then three hours kicking around Schipol before cramming into a busy Embraer E-190 to Glasgow, to find out I wasn’t in business class after all, then to find out I have to go away again for a week from tonight and I’ve run out of Persil !!! 😮

Moving house, it amazing how much ****e one collects without realising it

Recovering from yesterdays operation to scrape arthiritis from my left shoulder. Couldn’t get any sleep last night.

Alex

Are you taking that horrible arthritis drug Prednisolone…one of the main side effects is insomnia. 🙁

PMT

Recovering from yesterdays operation to scrape arthiritis from my left shoulder. Couldn’t get any sleep last night.

Alex

Working all night on a laptop (With a real keyboard and a real mouse plugged in of course!). Now falling asleep as I type.