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Is that a road or cross bike?

pretty much my experience - and the pedals were trashed too.

Looks good.

Has anyone bought a handlebar mount that would suit a compact camera and not cost RRRRRR's? Am looking for one. May just try this tho:

Yeh - so I found out. Just had the boss come and tell me to please stop chowing the entire company's bandwidth as they can't work. Don't select a couple of podcast providers and click 'Download All'...

23 boiled eggs should tide you over for a while... Does anyone listen to podcasts? I usually listen to audiobooks or me own music as I find local radio unbearable. Now bored with audiobooks so I thought I might get all technilogickal and try podcasts...

Out of interest, what diet did they come up for you?

Chances are that you are derailing yourself with the 'cheats'. Easiest way to find out is to faithfully keep track of what you stick in your mouth for a couple of days / maybe a week. There are online tools that the guys have used - I'm sure they will be mentioned soon enough - I can't even remember which one I used. I think My Fitness Pal. The issue is not to count calories, but to check that the amount of carbs you are eating is at or below your target level. But - what you become aware of pretty damn quick is the effect of 'just a little bit of this and a little bit of that' and it doesn't take too many days of tracking for it to become apparent. Part of the deal with LC'ing is insulin control, and if you keep on spiking insulin by 'cheating', you will be shooting yourself in the foot. To become properly fat adapted, the common consensus on this thread is that you have to take it seriously for at least a couple of months. Once you are adapted, you can cheat - but you can't cheat your way to adaption. Do the food diary thing - it's the first step to finding out what is actually going on. As for the 'should I do it' question, I'd hazard a guess that if you have 27kg to lose that you may have some form of insulin resistance and that it should work for you (standard 'advice you get from a stranger on the web' disclaimers apply )

Hey Tom!! We missed you dude. ..

Goddit. Tenk you suh.

Righty ho then! The power of this thread is that people have shared personal experiences and how they have adapted a LC type eating style to suit their particular needs. Check out Tombeej / JCZA / HappyMartin / DaleE and HTOne's contributions for e.g. - they have different takes on LCHF and have tweaked (and are still tweaking) it to suit their circumstances. Let us know what happened. What were the circumstances, what happened, what lessons were learned, what will be tried next time?

Ta. Will pop past on the way home.

Hi Fitter Welcome to this thread. I'm pretty sure that no where in this thread is it implied that LC'ing can replace training? For most of us that contribute, the training goes on as per normal (except, possibly, during the adaption phase where training / competing can be a miserable experience.) What has been of interest is the effect that LC'ing has on our training / racing (increased fuel efficiency amongst a number of other unforseen benefits - reduced respiration rates etc.) Regards Dave

Will pop past and check...

Anyone know where I can get eggbeater (1) rebuild kits in Gauteng / locally online?

Just as a matter of interest I used about 1l water on day one, 2l water on day two plus let's say 1.5 full paper cups of coke per table i.e. drinking to thirst. I'd consider this not much pre-adaption days when I used energy juice. In those days my consumption was pretty steady at 3l per 60km. My suspicion is as JC commented - that the guys are mid adaption and suffering the misery that comes with it. Conditions were pretty cool and you'd have had to go out of your way to dehydrate meaningfully.

What he said.

Oh - and I left a polar HR strap and sesor in the showers at Jolivet. If anyone knows where it might be / who has it, please could you contact me? I did leave my contact details with 'lost property.'

Maybe you guys are too fast - he was there when we got in (mid field). The guy has two (and on Thursday, three) events on at one time - that he can 'waste' time by hanging around at the finish for folk to have photo's taken is pretty astonishing... He must be the farmer with the highest helicopter frequent flyer miles of any..!

Yep, I did indeed!!

Another Sani done and dusted. Still amazed at the effect LC'ing has on my stage racing. Fuel economy is such that I don't really have to fuss too much about when/what to eat - and I used to be paranoid about this stuff. If I didn't have a good energy drink (Cadence Marathon / USN Epic Pro (bleaargh)) I was dead by the end of the day. This year I think I used four or five gels in total, and the rest was whatever I could pick up off the tables. Best thing? Bacon rolls on day three at the farmers association table! Took 2.5hrs approx off our time last year too. Tried the oats for breakfast but not sure if the eggs and bacon doesn't work better.

And now for a week of post Sani blues...

Indeed! How did you go today?

Running 1.2 / 1.5 (by my pump) Just awesome. So happy. Cornering is better, softer is more comfortable... Can recommend.

Awesome day - warm, dry. Started H, moved up to F. Enjoy work. .. ☺