Yesterday involved a few firsts for me.  It was my first time riding over 4 hours while in ketosis,  the first time using SuperStarch both before and during a ride, and the last “first” you’ll see at the end of this post.

Jonathan and I decided to do a long training ride – 95 miles with about 3500 feet of climbing.  I was excited to test how well SuperStarch would work on a ride this long.  I’m happy to say it worked phenomenally well.

We stuck to the instructions, and had 1 energy drink 30 minutes before we left.  (This was after our normal breakfast of coffee with butter and MCT oil, followed by bacon and eggs.)

There is one thing I may not have told you about SuperStarch:   It does not taste good.  At all.  Yes, it looks like milk.  But, as I told my husband, “Just trust me and drink it.  All of it.”

 

About 3 hours and 45 minutes in, we’d done most of our climbing but had a 30 mile ride home with mostly headwinds.  We took our second dose of SuperStarch at that time, along with a handful of cashews, peanuts and almonds.  Prior to this, we had one stop where we filled bottles and ate a SlimJim.  That is all the food we ate during our 6 hour ride, and neither of us came even close to bonking.  Tired legs, yes.

Our total riding time was just over 6 hours.  My energy level throughout the ride was the best it has ever been.  My husband didn’t feel as good as I did, but I think that was because he had been sick earlier in the week.

I’ll post separately about the psychology of trusting this new way of eating, but yesterday was a huge boost mentally for me.

Now for the bad part:  bleeding saddle sores.  Another first for me, but probably not the last.  If any of you have advice for treating them, I’m all ears.  For now it’s just Neosporin…