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I’ve gotten to the point where I need some fuel on my longer rides. I don’t know if I didn’t need it before because I had vast fat reserves or what. But lately I’ve been hitting some weird wall after about an hour of riding. I just get tired, and not tired from riding or sore, tired like I have no energy. It could be that I’m riding faster and harder as well.

Anyway, I started looking into fuel and what other cyclist eat. I don’t get the advantage of eating pasta or other glutenous high carb foods so me picking out snacks for riding is a little tougher. Well, not so tough when you have bikeforums. I posted there and got a lot of great suggestions. Here’s the link and a short list of what’s been said so far. Some are pretty obvious.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=426032

Larabars, just got some at king soopers last night, will try one today
NoNuttin Bars (sound gross)
Hammer Nutrition (runner, cycling fuel bar, drinks, gels)
Brown Rice syrup (yeah … idk about that one, but I do like to taste weird things)
brown rice bread
cereal (puffins and rice chex yay!)
trail mix (minus pretzels, etc … minus the good tasting stuff)
rice crispy treats (but I gotta be careful, rice crispy cereal has malt in it)
bananas

I’m going to try the nutrition forum as well, which I should have done. See if carbs are the way to go or something else. Do I just need to put something healthy in my stomach thats easy to digest? Should I just get the fitness gels and such?