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Guest Travis.
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How much does it affect riding?

 

I've dopped hard the night before and still cycle the next morning sometimes still vrot from the previous night's drinking, sometimes hungover. And I must say I don't really see a decrease in performance.

 

Plus, what are your general feelings in regards to beer as carboloading?

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How hard is hard and how much sleep did you get?

Cant imagine myself heading out for a 80k MTB ride after 18 beers, bottle of red, a few double single malts and a couple of tequilas on 4 hours sleep..?

Guest Travis.
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Well, if you are *** sleg to begin with, then, sure, you wont see a difference...

Haha! Nice personal attack.

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How hard is hard and how much sleep did you get?

Cant imagine myself heading out for a 80k MTB ride after 18 beers, bottle of red, a few double single malts and a couple of tequilas on 4 hours sleep..?

To be honest Honk, I can't imagine myself getting OUT OF BED after all that!
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How much does it affect riding?

 

I've dopped hard the night before and still cycle the next morning sometimes still vrot from the previous night's drinking, sometimes hungover. And I must say I don't really see a decrease in performance.

 

Plus, what are your general feelings in regards to beer as carboloading?

How old are you? When I was younger we used to play many rounds of squash in the evenings followed by short bursts of double G&T;s and then more squash. If I had to do that now (20 years on) I would probably die! I feel a couple of beers on a ride the following day, not muscle tired or anything, just more thirsty than usual.

Guest Travis.
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How hard is hard and how much sleep did you get?

Cant imagine myself heading out for a 80k MTB ride after 18 beers, bottle of red, a few double single malts and a couple of tequilas on 4 hours sleep..?

Def not 18 beers. About 8 beers, few shots of jagsemeisies, some tequila and maybe a lekker strawpedo or 2. 4 hours of sleep is plenty though.

Guest Travis.
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How old are you? When I was younger we used to play many rounds of squash in the evenings followed by short bursts of double G&T;s and then more squash. If I had to do that now (20 years on) I would probably die! I feel a couple of beers on a ride the following day, not muscle tired or anything, just more thirsty than usual.

This is what I'm getting at. Legs, etc feel good, just a bit more thirsty. So some water and sometimes another beer and it's good to go. I'm 30 btw

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I can drink quite a bit the night before a race and not feel to bad, but I have been drinking every night for the last couple of weeks. Its that time of year, year end functions, lunches etc, couple whiskeys here, few brandys there. And I must say it has caught up with me, I was nowhere in my race yesterday.

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