If you think an ice cold diet coke is nice, wait till you try ice cold water after working hard. Ambrosia. Clean on the teeth feeling too. Happy chemicals firin

If you think an ice cold diet coke is nice, wait till you try ice cold water after working hard. Ambrosia. Clean on the teeth feeling too. Happy chemicals firing off in your head. Besides, what you really need are carbs at this point for recovery. This is why people riding bikes 100 miles are eating straight up honey packets. Or filling a spare water bottle with sugar water, like actual home mix table sugar and water. Carbs are your actual fuel for that sort of thing. But again you have to match the carb load to the effort or risk calories in/out imbalance and weight gain. No issue for cyclists of course on that front. Dealing with boredom with a shot of anything probably isn't a healthy coping mechanism if we are being honest. Better to train to have the resolve to steel over this sort of thing than to form some Pavlovian dependency.