26-07-12, 08:43 AM
(25-07-12, 09:45 PM)Tiberius Onklevaart link Wrote: Caffeine/coffee/tea/energy drinks are diuretics and make you piss more liquid put than you should. They also give you a withdrawal-like crash after a while so will make you feel more knackered.
Stick to water.
Keep the speed down as well as the wind fatigue will have a harder effect on you with harder forces on your body, wind noise combined with the strain on your senses in trying to be more alert and reactive to big and/or static things approaching you at quicker speeds.
Thats bang on. a lot of Iron Butt riders keep there speed down for this reason.....you're basically playing the long game. Coffee and stimulate drinks are fine....in small quanties. I did a 38 mile trek a while ago (against the clock), we had gels, carb drinks and so on. But when we had finished we crashed bad :eek
Also depends on what you eat, heavy food (fry up e.t.c) is hard to digest and makes you tired.