Progress - couple of little bathroom stops yesterday, one this morning when I woke. Weight is down to 225. I still think there's a mutha-load waiting to vacate the bowels. Stomach is a lot less protruding today. Yesterday I wore a pair of 36 dress pants (i've been wearing 38's) to work. I grabbed them by accident and while they were't tight, they were more snug than the pants the day before. This almost caused a panic until I realized they were 36's not 38's. That felt good when I realized what was going on.
Did a 2 hour 15 minute group ride last night. Felt pretty good, stayed at the front. Two different sessions now with UCAN SuperStarch and I think I'm ready to re-do the bike barn ride from last weekend. I'm thinking about rolling out with them again this Saturday to see if I can make it all the way through. Hoping this UCAN is the fix for last weekends bonk/implosion.
Since I haven't been on the group ride in a few weeks (since the 18th.) I was 10lbs heavier on that day. Last night the overpass climbs felt a little easier. Could be the training, could be the weight difference, or maybe a combo of both? None the less I went up them more smoothly, if that's a description. My accelerations seem a lot more "smooth" than before. I don't know how else to describe it.
Two days of back to back intervals on Tuesday and Wednesday followed up with this group ride on Thursday and i'm happy to report that my legs felt "normal". Typically they'd feel pretty heavy with that much load. Keto is supposed to be great for fast recoveries, maybe that's the case? I did wonder if I'd be able to hang up front of the group especially when I saw several of the faster guys showed up on TT bikes. In the end when the pedal smashing was over there was only 3 of us including one on a tt bike - me and two cat2 roadies.
I'm getting really comfortable and quite optimistic about being in ketosis and racing or riding at a level that I did in the past. If I can make Saturday's ride, it'll be a great re-test to see if I got the bike-nutrition part fixed.
For the above mentioned ride I mixed and took 1 packet of UCAN Orange, 1 tbsp of MCT oil, a cap of elete electrolytes 30 minutes prior to the ride. I also consumed 5 MAP amino pills at the same time. During the ride I had two 25oz bottles of plain H2O. I did not consume any food between the start of the ride and lunch earlier in the day.
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