Bob Crook
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Ride Director, President, Webmaster and General Factotum Tim Harrison has set us the challenging, but realizable goal of hosting a minimum of 200 riders and providing them the best possible Century Ride experience.
An important part of the ride experience is the quality of the Food Stops. You all have had good and bad instances of food support at our own and other invitational rides.
Please think about this a bit and let me know what you like and dislike about food support. Give examples of really good and substandard food stops. List the food/drink that you think are essential or to be avoided.
We will use your input to plan our food support for 2012 so that post-ride surveys will result in nothing but unalloyed acclaim!
Thanks for your help,
Bob Crook
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juliah
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Last year, I did my first solo 100 miler in the CRAM. The stops there were good at the beginning: sandwiches, fruit, and other wet type foods. Toward the end all they had were granola bars. I ate more granola bars that day than I want to remember. In fact, I don’t think I have had one since! They are okay but a steady diet-not, so much. I particularly liked the fresh strawberries-they were in season-at one stop. What is in season in Sept? Apples? Melons? Great ideas. Also, years ago, I did the Hot100 and they had little packages of fruity candy, not gummy bears, but some sort of Willy Wonka thing. They were great. I tossed some of those in my pocket and enjoyed those little energy boosters for a while. I’ll have to ask my daughter the name of them. Variety is the spice of life or in our case-the key to an amazing bike event.
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Geo
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I usually don’t eat anything, but My omnivore friends seem to like cowboy cookies, smaller PB&Js, bananas, pickle juice, fig newtons, and maybe a few oranges…
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juliah
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Ohh, maybe we can get one of the stops to serve steak for us primal diet folks.
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Admin (Tim)
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OK, since going primal I snack on nuts during a ride. Trail mix, GORP or whatever you wanna call it is an essential food for me. Lightweight and packs a bunch of calories.
I’m with Julia in that the CRAM had a few good food stops but several were poor in that they only had granola bars. The last one had trail mix and I was in “heaven.”
I like fresh fruit too, bananas and grapes for example.
Oh yea, fig newtons are pretty good too!
I don’t do Gatoraid preferring simply water but I realize I’m not normal!
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Jason
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This past year at the ERV, I noticed the scouts eating most of the food that was there for the participants. In the past two years, I have found the Gatorade to be warm and very watered down. I went to a ride in 2010 that served homemade goodies and had boiled potatoes at the stops. I do not like the HEED drink they serve at the HOT.
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