Thursday, July 31, 2008

Ok, but not great...

...sums up my ride this morning. I ventured out for an hour and felt pretty decent for the first 30 minutes afterwhich I started to feel like I was on the verge of bonking. Running out of energy after only 30 minutes you ask?! Yes, I'm being serious and I believe the reason why is the fact that I have been eating very little for the past 3 days and my reserves are a bit low. So I guess the lesson learned is that I need to eat more. If only my stomach would stop complaining about the little I have been eating...

Oh, and I learned something else on my ride this morning: CarboRocket is the best energy drink ever. You see, I ran out of the magic mix last week so last night I fixed 2 bottles of my old preferred energy drink (I still have almost a full canister of the stuff since I stopped using it cold turkey once I tried CarboRocket). Well, let's just say I only managed to force down 1 bottle this morning (and it was a small bottle) as it was way, way, way too sweet and syrupy. Yeah, it was pretty much disgusting. So if you haven't tried CarboRocket yet and happen to be using another brand of energy drink do yourself a favor and give it a try. If you don't like it send me an email and I'll buy whatever's left from you. Yeah, it's really that good.

2 comments:

Bill said...

I too have been on the bottle (CarboRocket) and I have been impressed. I find that my workouts are so fun I end up almost over trained all the time.

Have you tried CRocket in an ultra endurance event? I usually use a Hammer product that is specifically for ultra endurance events and includes protein. I ask this because I have a 100 mile 15,000 ft climb race coming up and would love to lean on the Rocket more. ... Plus ... I cant afford the "Hammer" products :)

UtRider said...

I haven't used it for ultra endurance rides but that's just because I haven't done any! I know others have, most notably Brad Keyes who seemed to ride quite well at the Park City Perfect 10 (1st Solo Men - On a rigid ss no less).