Fuelling big rides

Nutritional intake, or a lack of, can make or break your next big ride. Here’s Pro Team EF’s Will Girling on how to perfect your endurance fuelling

“Every type of endurance ride requires its own strategies in how to maximise fuelling” As you know, fuelling your rides is key to your performance. Everyone seems to have an opinion on how you should do it and what’s best but, in my experience, it’s seldom correct. A key thing to note is that the science behind fuelling your performance shows you typically run depleted of your glycogen stores within 90 minutes of riding if you’re going at a moderate intensity. This means that, if you’re doing any ride over this duration, you need to be considering your fuelling on the bike. And a key point to remember is that you need to be consuming carbohydrate on the bike in relation to the duration and intensity of your ride so…

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