Sunday, August 23, 2009
Whole Enchilada
There's a ride in Moab each year called the Whole Enchilada. From what I can gather it uses a portion of a popular shuttle ride there that has a REALLY LONG downhill. Don't quote me but I wanna say it's like 15 miles. Anyway people get shuttled to the top and then ride the trail down. Now some endurance guy or guys got the idea to make a nasty loop that includes this downhill portion. So every year a bunch of people get together and do a spirited ride on this loop. This year I'll be going thanks to an invite I got the other day from Marshal Bird. I think the loop is just under 70 miles long and right at 15,000' of gain. It's really important for me to get my nutrition more dialed in for this so I can enjoy it and set some thing straight in my head.
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Chris
Last yr there was a water stash close to the top of the main climb. Also there is a nice mtn stream for filtering at the beginning of the long descent (I am going to toss in my filter this yr and have ice cold water for the hot / low elev afternoon)
I think 300 to 350 cal’s/hr seems to be a common goal for top endurance racers. As you know, you can never ‘take in’ what you ‘use’ while racing. Personally I have a hard time getting more than 200cals/hr down. So I just try for small amounts during my ride and try to time a ‘extra intake’ 20 min before a climb and a extra large/full meal amount at a rest stop or at the beginning of a easy sec/down hill
you ever done Moab?? I am getting stoked…..
oh, I almost forgot. This is a perfect ride to experiment by bringing lots of extra food types, salty, sweet, spicy, processed junk food and power bar/gu types, whatever.
Then after about 7-10hrs of hammering what ever looks good and goes down, well that’s the food type your body is saying it needs/wants/works for the long long day
NEVER ridden Moab. I know you're all about the desert but if I see any snakes, they're history dude.
I'll be in touch soon enough to discuss some things.
Ever try adding Carbo Pro to your bottles. It's mostly tasteless. I make mega calorie bottles and use only water in the back pack. You can make 500 calorie bottles that taste OK, albiet a little thick! Wish I was there.
You Burnin this year?
For a shorter event like this I can (and will) get a lot of mileage out of 2 bottles of Perpetuem. It's just the longer stuff that still has me needing more smarts.
I would LOVE to Burn again but I don't know if I can swing the flight right now. We'll see.
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