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Lol...so a cyclist is supposed to eat a raw potato while cycling instead of something easy to eat like a gel? ok.
by tempsy 7y ago
Lol...so a cyclist is supposed to eat a raw potato while cycling instead of something easy to eat like a gel? ok.
- Ensorceled 7y agoThey used a purée, but yeah, on my long runs I carry a couple of gels, I’m not going to start putting a Yukon Gold in the blender.
- Filligree 7y agoMashed potatoes are so tasty, though. Why not try it?
- riazrizvi 7y ago... or you could just microwave a small potato and leave it in its natural, extremely handy, form! Get prewashed yukons and you don’t need to peel them.
- gjs278 7y agohow are you going to carry this while cycling? I don’t understand if you are all joking or what.
- Ensorceled 7y agoI think I’d use Apple sauce first or a piece of fruit, both work pretty well. Luckily I have an iron stomach and the gels are the easiest.
- nimih 7y agoThe paper describes a potato puree, so presumably they're expected to cook+mash+season the potatoes the day prior and put them in a reusable food pouch. Definitely cheaper and probably more pleasant tasting.
- ra1n85 7y agoI can’t imagine that cold mashed potatoes in a tube tastes better than the low bar of flavored brown rice syrup.
- SECProto 7y agoI would much rather some cold, buttery salted mashed potatoes than the gross sweet energy gels. Taste preferences aren't uniform
- llimllib 7y agoyou have to eat more of the potato per calorie than the gel. I'd much rather just shotgun a gross gel packet for 100 calories and taste none of it than have to slog through more potatoes.
- goldcd 7y agoYou're clearly not imagining a pomme-puree, from a decent potato, dollop of butter (hopefully with some sea-salt), decent coarse grind of Tellicherry black pepper... ...I'm always bemused that consumers of "sports supplements" seem to delight in them being processed to shit (and are often eaten the same people who'll get picky over the provenance of restaurant food).
- ra1n85 7y agoAnd I’m glad I’m not imagining it because room temperature butter that has congealed and separated from a starch sounds awful to eat while you’re strenuously exercising. Bemuse yourself to your heart’s delight - savory, buttery, starches don’t sound like a good idea when the blood has been shuttled from your digestive tract to your skeletal muscle and your body heat is several degrees above average.
- grepthisab 7y agoSerious/competitive cyclist here, I often use real food. Small two bite sandwiches, etc wrapped in foil. I've also done this with yams, steam a whole one and add salt, wrap the whole thing in aluminium foil. Put in jersey pocket. Super easy to pull out and take a bit or two and put back. Easier than gels actually.
- rdxm 7y agoyup, cat 1/2 road race distances, and also MTB marathon events require real sustenance. learning how to eat on the bike is the go/no-go for results.
- jdietrich 7y agoMost elite soigneurs include some amount of real food in their musettes, if only for reasons of palatability and morale. Team Sky's rice cakes have become a firm favourite throughout the peloton: https://thesuchef.com/2014/07/29/team-sky-rice-cakes/ https://thesuchef.com/2014/07/29/team-sky-rice-cakes/
- coldtea 7y agoLOL, no. It's a scientific study about the potency of potatoes for a use case, not some one-liner advice for someone on the internet to dismiss with a snarky BS comment, and then add a condescending and incredulous "ok", as if he, in all the 2 seconds that thought about it, knows better... The information could also be used to make new gels based on potatoes...
- Ensorceled 7y agoGood point. You can get fruit purée based energy gels, a potato based purée (complex carbs, proven by science!) using heirloom, ancient stock purple potatoes from the Andes would sell like ... I have to go file some trademarks!