why it’s almost pointless for me to cook
At least for the next academic year, considering the amount of cycling and related training that I am doing, it is becoming pointless for me to cook my own meals. I quickly came to the point where I don’t have the time to make such extravagant meals that could satiate my appetite. I truly am eating on the order of 4-5k calories per day. If I spent the time to make that much food, my days would consist of little more than sleeping, school, cycling, and cooking. Hmm, that actually sounds exactly like my typical day. Odd.
My breakfasts are still the most sacred moments of my day. Even before morning rides, I toast a whole wheat bagel and slice a banana on it and top that with cinnamon sugar. Lunches are toasted, sliced bread with some sort of fresh tomato and cheese mix - often just mini-pizzas or mozzarella-tomato sandwiches. Dinners are where I shine; my day of biking around town and then my training have made me hungry enough to devour local landmarks. Fortunately for my digestive juices that probably can’t handle concrete or marble, I look to the kitchen. And I eat.
With the exception of the dumptruck loads of M&Ms and the random other desserts, my diet is very vegetarian and healthy. It’s just that I eat a lot of healthy stuff. This may sound like a weird point to make but when I go to bed my stomach is usually larger than average - an above average stomach, absolutely full of bread and vegetables. When I awake, my thin waste has returned. I suppose the broken-down proteins and whatever are going to my legs or, perhaps, my tyrannosaurus arms. Overall, I haven’t gained a pound since I began this level of training, though, I seriously have doubled the amount of food I eat.
The trick for the future months is so figure out how to eat less but still retain the same training methods. My body needs to find how to be the most efficient with the food I give it. I suppose it can do that on its own, or I can treat it to a round of electro-shock therapy like a lab rat to correct any erroneous digestive habits.
Eating this much food is really weird. I recognize this.
On another health note, I swapped out my Madone’s 100mm stem with an 80mm stem. It stretches my back far less and I am a much happier rider now. Plus, some Nashbar-ordered items arrived for the cold weather; but, to my dismay, the cold weather disappeared and we now have a second summer here in Blacksburg. Curses.
September 25th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
you should go on major flex plan and eat your heart out on campus.
dont ever wish for cold weather to cycle in.
you should flip your stem as well, i heard all the cool kids are doing it.
September 26th, 2007 at 12:36 am
but eating on campus ties me down to that physical location. i prefer coming home to the sanctuary the house provides and quietly relaxing with a meal before heading out for the next set of drugery. and even though i am eating this much, i still save money over the cost of flex.
i only prepare for it. i have biked in moderately cold weather on the pilot (somewhere around 45 deg F) and it was terrible because, at the time, i had no winter weather attire. as of today, i can bike in considerably colder weather with less issues. my lungs break down in cold weather, though.
the 80mm stem has a steep angle to make up the height in a shorter distance. if i flipped the 80, the bars would be touching the front brakes. but, that’s not to imply that i won’t try.