Nutrition secrets from the land of wind and corn-the funky banana

Triathlon Forum
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So one of my friends I train with swears by dark black (rotten) bananas. We’re riding along, and he busts one of these bad boys out:

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Much to our disgust, he consumes it. As he’s chowing down, he remarks that he just can’t figure out why he’s had explosive diarrhea in 2 of 3 HIMs this summer…

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Maybe I need more salt tablets, our hero wonders…
Man, I think we need to stop.

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Realizing that it IS all about the bike, our past-due-fruit consuming ronin takes his prize steed in with him. Wonder why he doesn’t trust us enough to leave his bike out? It’s not like we’d do something stupid and post it on Slowtwitch…

Much better, let’s roll!

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Some people get grumpy a week out from IM, others get jittery. When you combine a guy one week out from his 1st, another guy who’s on his 1st ride since IMKY, and another (banana man) prepping for his 4th HIM of the season, idiocy ensues…

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man, the darker the sweeter!!! you americans just don’t know… hehehe

Anyways, what a fun ride this morning!!! I’ve never laughed so much riding a bike before. Good luck next weekend.

DPC

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Never trust anyone who wears arm warmers with a sleeveless shirt.

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much like the banana, I figured it was a European thing…

My stomach actually hurts from laughing so much. My wife thinks I’m an idiot.

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Man that is great! I think you should put one of those turds in your special needs bag at IMW next week. You would probably scare the Volunteers to death if they saw that!! Good Luck.

Steve

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I’ve been asking everybody around about how they eat their bananas and the results are clear: it seems that as soon as the banana gets brown spots you guys don’t eat them anymore. In Spain we don’t buy them until they have those spots and then, we may wait a couple of days for them to get creamy and sweet (or rotten and nasty as you may think). You guys should try them!
DPC

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I’m an almost-green-banana-eater all the way. Maybe we can work out a deal that when our bananas get brown spots, we quickly ship them off to in Spain.

On a side note, as soon as a banana gets brown spots, it goes into my freezer - perfect for making banana bread. This spring I did a regular fridge-cleaning and there were 26 black bananas in my freezer. No way I could ever make that much banana bread. Bad, bad Monica.

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green bananas?? don’t they make your mouth get dry? they are almost impossible to swallow!
DPC

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Well, more like almost green. Still green on the ridges, but nice and yellow otherwise. But no brown spots! And yes, there is a very small window of opportunity between green/dry and brown/mushy. Lasts about a day. Yummmmm. I love bananas.