1 every 40 minutes.

think it depends on what you are doing. IN an olympic race I might take 2 gus on the bike and that might be overkill (one 10 mins in, one 45 min later)

In a half--I get out of the water and onto the bike. Once I get going for about 20 mins, I eat a powerbar. One hour later I start with Gu every half hour or so until the run.

If I was just biking for 3-4 hours, I eat a powerbar during the first hour and gu every 45 mins thereafter.

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[reply]think it depends on what you are doing. IN an olympic race I might take 2 gus on the bike and that might be overkill (one 10 mins in, one 45 min later)

In a half--I get out of the water and onto the bike. Once I get going for about 20 mins, I eat a powerbar. One hour later I start with Gu every half hour or so until the run.

If I was just biking for 3-4 hours, I eat a powerbar during the first hour and gu every 45 mins thereafter.[/reply]

in a half do you continue every half hour with the Gu on the run or mix it up?

On the run I just put down what I can handle. Every half hour sounds good--assuming you run it in under 2 hours thats a max of 4 shots--thats a lot to digest. Chances are the last 1 or 2 won't actually do much for your race performance, but might help recovery.

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Seems like a read that the body can only digest 300 cal per hr. so any more than that it just sits and makes you sick.Maybe 2 per hour for an Oly or above distance.

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