So you can pack it full of Cherries:
That’s right, it’s my favorite time of year: May-July are the best months for fresh fruits and veggies.
You cant tape cherries to your frame (totally un-aero) and digging for loose cherries amongst spare tubes and cell phones in your jersey pockets is highly impractical and presents a potential safety hazard.
PSA for SoCal Peeps: Ralphs has cherries on sale now for $1.99lb. Sprouts has them at $2.99lb, but Sprouts has Minneolas for .99lb and Ralphs has them for $1.99lb. Also, Sprouts has boneless skinless chicken breasts for $1.69lb and red, green, yellow bell peppers for .49 each. Ralphs chicken breasts are $2.99 and red - yellow peppers are $2.00 each.
Advantage: Sprouts
FYI - the $1.69 boneless skinless raw chicken breasts don’t require a bento box - they work just fine in jersey pockets or taped on the frame.
Taping an un-cooked chicken breast to a bicycle frame is never a good idea.
I am a ‘whole foods’ athlete. I don’t do powerbars or gels except in the case of an emergency bonk, so I carry Gu Roctane just in case. I’ve got the ‘moveable feast’ thing going on which reminds me of Hemmingway. I first started fueling with whole foods when I lived in AZ and did many rides to Tortilla Flat which reminded me of the Steinbeck novel of the same name.
So, on my long rides, I eat egg salad sandwiches, salami sandwiches, bananas, peel oranges, eat cherries, etc.
It is no mistake that in IM races you start to see ‘real food’ being served late in the run: chicken soup, pizza, hot-dogs and hamburgers…….one can only take so much gel and energy bars over 11 hours………
they have hot dogs and hamburgers at the aid stations in IM’s now??
no wonder the entry fees have gone up. 
And the cherries even match the frame. Too much. :-))
This post would be 100x cooler if you had pulled off the road and picked these…
cherry pits and banana peels on the side of the road…
mmmm cherries.
Guess I’ll have to dig out the bento box & stop by whole foods on the way home.
Its been wind tunnel proven that a KFC double down is more areo when taped to in front of the fork rather than to the rear.
The 2X I did IMFL amd 1X at IMCDA, they had the BBQ’s fired up…but that was a long time ago. I think mama obama and the food police have since cracked down on WTC for offerring “unhealthy food choices.”
Speaking of which: Today I’m sitting at a Mobil station in Camarillo eating a bag of fritos and drinking a pepsi and this old guy rolls up in a Cadillac and starts admiring the Mighty P3 Carbon and he says “how much did that bike cost you?”
Me: “too much”
Old dude: “Can I pick it up?”
Me: “Sure”
Old dude: “Damn that thing is light!!”
Me “Not on Slowtwitch it aint”
Old dude “Huh?”
Me: “Sorry, nevermind…just thinking out loud.”
Old Dude “How far your riding today?”
Me “80 miles and I’m almost done.”
Old dude: “You look hungry. I’ve got two Arby’s roast beef sandwiches here in my car would you like them?”
“Damn Right Brother!!” I said. So as I inhaled one of those sandwiches,we made some small talk and he told me he was driving to Oregon this evening etc etc.
As I was eating the other roast beef sandwich on the way home, I thought about how that is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me while I was out on my bike.
Interpretation: Do not wait until you finish your ride to eat your post ride meal. Fueling up 30 - 60 minutes before the ride is over will greatly enhance your recovery.
I admire the real food thing. Ever since I saw what Motorola put in their musettes, I’ve done many a ride with a lettuce, ham & marmite sandwich. My complaint with bars is that I’ve never found a decent savoury one. It’s the sweetness of all gels, bars & drinks that gets to me after a while. Now if some genius came up with a Roast Beef & Mustard bar, or a Cellery or Onion Soup gel, I’d buy a lifetime supply. Imagine a Salami Bar! Or, a BACON BAR!!! Man, that would be something!
Don’t need real foot or a Bento box. I tape my GU packs directly to my forearms in concentric rings between my wrist and elbow, so I can access them like Batman’s Utility Bracelet. I’ve tried the actual utility bracelet but it created too much wind drag, so did the batman mask.
Salami? What’s your definition of whole food?
I’ll be able to do that with blueberries this summer - pull over to the side of the road and pick them, that is.
I don’t think I’d want to eat them while running or riding as fuel though!
Taping an un-cooked chicken breast to a bicycle frame is never a good idea.
I am a ‘whole foods’ athlete. I don’t do powerbars or gels except in the case of an emergency bonk, so I carry Gu Roctane just in case. I’ve got the ‘moveable feast’ thing going on which reminds me of Hemmingway. I first started fueling with whole foods when I lived in AZ and did many rides to Tortilla Flat which reminded me of the Steinbeck novel of the same name.
So, on my long rides, I eat egg salad sandwiches, salami sandwiches, bananas, peel oranges, eat cherries, etc.
It is no mistake that in IM races you start to see ‘real food’ being served late in the run: chicken soup, pizza, hot-dogs and hamburgers…….one can only take so much gel and energy bars over 11 hours………
how is a sandwich any more of a “whole food” than a powerbar? sandwich is bread, salami and any deli meat is mega processed, it seems like you are eating foods that cure hunger but do nothing at all for getting carbs quickly to your body, i dont recall any hotdogs and hamburgers at ironman, i guess that is for the people who walk the run?
this thread turned gross very quick.
Taping an un-cooked chicken breast to a bicycle frame is never a good idea.
I am a ‘whole foods’ athlete. I don’t do powerbars or gels except in the case of an emergency bonk, so I carry Gu Roctane just in case. I’ve got the ‘moveable feast’ thing going on which reminds me of Hemmingway. I first started fueling with whole foods when I lived in AZ and did many rides to Tortilla Flat which reminded me of the Steinbeck novel of the same name.
So, on my long rides, I eat egg salad sandwiches, salami sandwiches, bananas, peel oranges, eat cherries, etc.
It is no mistake that in IM races you start to see ‘real food’ being served late in the run: chicken soup, pizza, hot-dogs and hamburgers…….one can only take so much gel and energy bars over 11 hours………
how is a sandwich any more of a “whole food” than a powerbar? sandwich is bread, salami and any deli meat is mega processed, it seems like you are eating foods that cure hunger but do nothing at all for getting carbs quickly to your body, i dont recall any hotdogs and hamburgers at ironman, i guess that is for the people who walk the run?
I like real food but I don’t think that they are better than usual nutrition. Thinks like Hammer Gels have been designed for your body to assimilate quickly. Quicker than real or whole foods. Certainly quicker than salami!
I would think that the long races have certain foods to combat hunger or just the need to ingest something solid … I doubt the decent athletes are chowing down on burgers half way round.
That said, the Olympics were sponsored by McD’s so anything is possible.
It is no mistake that in IM races you start to see ‘real food’ being served late in the run: chicken soup, pizza, hot-dogs and hamburgers…….one can only take so much gel and energy bars over 11 hours………
This is common practice at ultramarathon aid stations. I can’t see myself eating any of those things mid-race, but I understand the rationale. Personally, I love a peanut butter and banana wrap for long training runs/rides.
//Edward
Hemingway? Dude, you are killing me. In a good way.