Gas station food + resupply tips for the Tour Divide / GDMBR and bikepacking races in general
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- How to resupply efficiently and make good gas station food choices on the Tour Divide, Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, and bikepack racing in general. Let me know your tips and favorite bikepacking snacks in the comments! Ride on :)
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0:00 - Intro
2:57 - Resupply Tips
6:55 - Grocery Stores
7:51 - Convenience Stores
9:01 - Crunching Numbers
11:07 - Glycemic Index
12:08 - Right Now Snacks
13:51 - To Go Snacks
16:14 - Junk Food
17:46 - Hydration
18:52 - Bonus Tips
20:57 - Outro
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Sitting in the sun in the Great Basin, having lunch of a melted lump of peanut M&Ms, cashews, turkey jerkey, dry crushed Top Ramin, and corn chips, all flavored with leaked suncreen...Aaah, the good life !
Love it!! Thanks for sharing :)
Yuck! I’m not letting you pack my food!
Great video. Great tips. For my TD23 I did one thing I never saw anyone else do, and it is a classic through hiker move, and that is cold soaking. I don't know why more TD racers don't cold soak. I rigged up a modified water bottle cage to hold my 1 litre GSI Fairshare mug. It fully seals with a legit rubber gasket. Every evening, or late in the day I would put 2 packages of cheap ramen noodles in and by the time I stopped to sleep, they would be ready to eat. They generally only need 20 minutes. Then before bed I dumped 5 packets of instant oatmeal into the container to scarf down while packing up in the morning. I managed to cram in more calories at bedtime and in the morning than the other riders I rode with. For shorter races I usually cold soak using ziplock bags. Oh, and a good spoon or spork are a must have for me. Oatmeal and ramen noodles are in most convenience stores. ANd it feels sort of like real food.
Thanks for mentioning cold soaking :) great tip 👊
This was probably the best video on this topic I’ve seen. Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. I’m a Randonneur and often eat at Gas Stations. After watching this I have an urge to go to 7-11 for breakfast 😂
Also very well written. Top tube pantry and drafting on the intelligence of others. I’m going to use those.
Thanks for watching and the kind words :) ride on!
Thank you for sharing and for being thoughtful enough to include metric system data. It's really helpful.
Thanks for watching! Ride on :)
Never thought this subject would be so interesting. Another great and educational video that even a old guy like me can understand. Outstanding. Take care, Al
Glad you enjoyed it! Keep on keepin on!
Another cracking video, Alan. Just what I wanted to watch in prep for the TD. Some great advice, loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it
Best comment from this vid "so basically, eat every chance you get". Got it. Thanks again for an awesome vid. I haven't given much thought about food prep yet, but this will definitely get me pointed in the right direction.
Glad you enjoyed!
A couple of things:
String cheese is good.
I often find cashews, macadamia nuts, and beef jerky in resealable ziploc bags to be a good thing. If only because you can reuse the empty bag for trash or other stuff.
The caffeinated Clif Bars, if you can find them, are an awesome emergency food. One of them is usually good for about three hours of motion.
Lemon drops are good quick energy.
Thanks for sharing :)
I really appreciate you making the time to make this video 👍
I appreciate you taking the time to watch it!! 🙌
The 'bullet proof coffee' sachets w/ butter & MCT oil are great to add to coffee :)
Thanks for sharing 🤙🙌
Cool advice! I like your energy.
Thanks for watching!
Hey DT, KW MD here. Love the lowdown on PO intake for the TD. This is the best instruction on high density caloric intake for long distance endurance bikeletes I’ve heard. I’ve given the glycemic index speech to hundreds of patients. Great job! While food choices are often limited, on the Trans Am and GDMBR I fell in love with Minute Market food, supplemented by cafe food. There’s a surprising diversity of tastes, flavors and textures. I’m not a racer, and a little more weight - tolerant, but I always plan a little extra bag space for takeaways… Subway, pizza, fried chicken, hohoes, fruit pies. If I come home > 6-7 pounds lighter, I know my calorie intake ( and likely pedaling performance) suffered. Thanks again. You gave a good didactic nutritional background with lots of practical food suggestions without geeking out on the biochemistry of exercise and starvation. Perfect!
Thanks for your kind words and your insight :) much appreciated 🙌
Allen, your always so informative. I completed the upper 1/2 of the TD and this summer will start in Steamboat Springs to ride to Antelope Wells. Then the next year I will ride the entire thing. My summers only have so much time to do these things. Next summer I am retired and can go till I want to finish. Keep your posts coming. I have watched them all. Ride on Allen!
Thanks for the kind words and have a fantastic adventure this summer!!! 🙌🙌
Wowee. Fantastic video!
Glad you liked it!
Such a good video. I’ll be watching this one over and over. Salt packs are good with some warm water for an oral rinse or toothpaste tablets w tea tree oil help ward off oral sores.
Thanks for sharing- great points 💪
Fantastic vid, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it 🙏
I’m wearing the same Maven shirt today lol! Awesome video, love the channel
Haha! Good times👊 thanks for watching and supporting, Shane 🤙
Great video!
Thanks for watching :)
Nice video Very Good input Very well done
Thanks!
Love this Jaco..love this foodie edition..one reason I love bikepacking…bike eat camp repeat..thanks Brudda🚴⛺️☕️🍺🌯🦎
Bike eat camp repeat 💯👊
Excellent video very informative!
Glad it was helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
super video with really useful tips no matter what the bike packing distance is.
Glad it was helpful!
Just subbed you. Great info. Remember bonking once.......was enough. Want to do this next year 2025. Have been a part time cyclist over the past 60 years so not too bad of shape but need to start ramping it up and getting my training in order for fueling, etc.. Remember giving out on only one occasion in 112 deg heat almost made it back home on a 133 miler. I am a gluten for punishment and 98% of time will not quit but that one day scorched me. The info you gave out is quite condensed so at least offers up many good info tp sort out out and add to a list to be gone through gradually before the date I intend on doing the divide ride.
Best of luck on the Divide in 2025- ride on!!
Excellent! Great advice for anyone on the Divide, even older folks like me touring the route at 40-50 miles a day can still use your tips. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Love your videos! And your replies are never snarky which is hero level. I’ll be “touring” the ride this summer and can afford the luxury of store shopping thankfully. Btw I know that are probably the most processed food imaginable but I really like carrying Uncrustables (peanut butter jelly frozen round sandwiches) .. that are easy to eat in the bike .. and fit as a stack in feed bags perfectly !
Ooh Uncrustables- great call and thanks for mentioning :) have a blast on your adventure this summer!!!
I'm always checking the "calories per 100g " value on stuff here in the UK. My go to is jelly babies, walnuts, raisins, cheese and mini pork pies. Yum. The main reason I want to get into ultra endurance is for the excuse to binge on crap food .. ✊
😂😂 I love your motivation!! Ride on :)
I just got into bike touring & racing late last year but been a thru hiker for the last 5 years coming from that to this definitely helps and makes it kinda easy i did WV to FL on the eastern divide this winter I’m doing 3,000 miles on different routes this year and the tour divide next year , this year is all training and getting the rig built while checking off routes also a bilateral amputee, just saying if you have a dream do it don’t put it off , life is all about experiences
Thanks so much for sharing and so excited for your upcoming adventures! Ride on :)
Thanks for that. I'm from Ireland & plan to be riding TD this year. I wasn't sure what to expect in the gas stations, and am not familiar with US brands. I'm made a bunch of notes having watched your video!
Awesome!! Have a fantastic adventure 💪💪
I understand that pemmican is a good source of trail calories, there are many videos on it's home based manufacture.
This is something that I need to learn as well.
I’ve never noticed pemmican at gas stations - guess I’ll have to look closer! Thanks for sharing 👍
I always have baby food with me during rides. They are all organic, don’t expire for a year, super easy to digest, don’t get smashed in your pocket and are about 80 cents each…
Thanks for sharing- great tip 👊
Great advice. Chocolate milk is my #1 choice when racing so glad to see you mention it. I get 3 litres at the end of the day. I drink one before bed, the second over the night, and the third for breakfast. Calories and hydration in one package! My #2 choice are almond Magnum ice creams. My record was 8 in one day: it was 40C+ in Turkey on the last day of the Transconinental Race and it was all I could stomach.
Thanks for sharing your insight! Ride on :)
Best recovery drink ever!
good stuff, i've never done anything this massive so I've never considered this stuff
Thanks for watching :)
I’m betting we don’t see many vegans on this route. I recently did the Erie Canal Trail in NY and this man is absolutely correct… A C-store attached to a gas station was an oasis.
Thanks for chiming in :)
Excellent video man. But now I am really hungry!
😂😂 thanks for watching :)
Nice shirt, brother
Thanks 🤙
I have been waiting for a video like this? You may have to show a yoga stretch video on that paddle board gymnastics blow up thing on the back drop.
😂😂 copy floating yoga 🧘
I had a lot of pop-tarts and honeybuns during my race in 2015. Lots of carbs, and calorically dense. Subway flatbreads were in constant rotation as well. I hit diners whenever possible and open hours matched up. Plenty of burgers, fries and a beer if handy. Candy bars, although they were hard to deal with many due to the heat. I did have some simple sugars (swedish fish, sour patch kids, etc) but I was really worried about sugar crashes for some reason, so I used those as a treat rather than a steady source of calories
I was still down about 20 lbs by the time I hit Antelope Wells. Post race, I was really craving fruit, especially blueberries and peaches for some reason.
Thanks for sharing :)
Nice frito stomp Molly!
Haha - good eye! I showed her your comment and she smiled - thanks!!
Allen thanks so much for putting this video together! I'm just breaking into bikepacking and this is the kind of information that's gold for a person like me. Question: how did you estimate how many calories you could process per hour? If I wanted to estimate this for my own body, any tips or resources you recommend to do that?
Thanks for your kind words :) great question… answer, trial and error and making mistakes is how I’ve learned how my body reacts to caloric bombardment… and it’s always ebbing and flowing… I didn’t get into it in this video, because it was TD/gas station focused- but whenever possible, I take in lots of calories via high carb drink powder (tailwind, sis, gu, etc) in my water… and has electrolytes too… ride on!
My quick observation on more than half of what makes a good ultra athlete is that you are able to process calories and foods that aren't always "perfect" as stated in the video. I top out on 9-10hr rides max, but that's normally 90% Infinit (450 cal/hr @215#) and every other hour a fig or granola bar. If I eat nuts or high fat foods, things, things are not good...The issues I've always had for long rides are nutrition strategies and I've tried a ton. I will keep trying things to dial it in, I'm only 26yrs old now and have been doing longer rides for only 2 seasons now, so there's still much to learn. Good info, I will try to apply some of this to some of my longer rides.
Thanks for sharing your insight! We never stop learning and that’s part of the fun, right? Ride on :)
Good stuff! If you have already done all the geeky stuff could you (pretty please) post a link to share your geek with us? Thank you and again - good stuff.
Not sure I follow, but thanks for watching and commenting! Ride on :)
I heard one year on the TD some guy would buy like ten maccers cheese burgers and chomp on them for a few days….lovely cold burger….i get it though having done quite a few long rides…ohh and i prefer gas stations as it’s safer to leave the bike and quicker to grab some junk food 🤗🥳
Thanks for sharing!
I've had to start finding foods that I can snack on that don't require a lot of chewing while riding, or if I do, I have to take very small bites at a time. I started subscribing to Picky Bars and will jam as many of those things in my bags as I can. I love chocolate, but it always ends up being a complete mess in my bags - I have to eat it right at the store. Having dental floss handy is awesome for so many reasons, but being able to get that one pesky piece of jerky out of my teeth is such a mental bonus sometimes. "Miranda Goes Outside" here on YT did a great video on making your own gummies using electrolyte drink mix ("Backpacking Gear You Can Make at Home!").
Thanks for sharing :)
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Thanks for watching 🤙
Thanks for discussing a topic that I've only seen snippets from other videos. Great presentation!
I'm interested in seeing this type of video on the subject of issues one encounters when riding in the open country, no tree cover, and you suddenly have to go to the restroom. This may not be a big concern when you're out in desolate area, but if you find yourself near well traveled roads, which don't offer much privacy. Obvious solutions are found in businesses, hotels, campgrounds. My concern is those unfortunate times when timing of not the best.
One other topic I've looked for is for bike/gear security when you're traveling solo. Do you take your bike and electronics into a business with you. All it takes is one thief to end your tour!
I have ridden with a hydro pack that has pockets on the waistband. I kept my [very small] wallet on one side and put my phone in the other. I locked up the bike with a very thin cable combination lock to prevent the opportunistic thief. I figured if someone did take the bike, at least with the wallet and phone I could get myself home.
Neil/bikepacking.com made a good video on security - you should check it out - there’s a few deterrent hacks we do, pulling chain off the cassette, strapping helmet thru spokes, etc, small cable locks, short stop times, rolling bike inside the store, etc I’m away from a computer so don’t have the link, but should be easy to find… ride on and thanks for watching!!
And yes, I will take in gps computer, etc to keep potential thieves from an easy score
having a filthy bike loaded with tons of weird-looking junk might also dissuade them :)@@DirtyTeethMTB For big grocery stores if it isn't busy I ask them very politely if I can park it inside. The workers normally don't care. It's not their store - they work for a giant corporation.
Thanks for sharing
My two tips to divide riders: No mental math until Wyoming. Carry as much food as possible from Grants NM.
Thanks for sharing
Hungry now. Some additional things to consider….protein reduces the intake of carbs….you can train your stomach to digest more carbs…food in the belly is not the same as energy in the blood.
Thanks for sharing 👊
I just can’t stop wondering that everyone is eating gummy bears in the GDMBR-video’s!? 🐻 😂
Why’s that?
I didn’t realize I was - thanks for watching and sharing
I think I ate about 100 payday bars on my gdmbr. Also tried to eat at a restaurant once a day if it was possible.
😂 thanks for sharing!
A tin of creamed rice in UK garages
Awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
I have type 2 diabetes, can you point me in the right direction on fueling choices??
A dietician who works with diabetic patients? Or is that too obvious?!?
No, not the route for me . Thanks a bunch tho'.
Sorry, I’m just a fledgling TH-camr… can’t tackle your question… but I have read some good blogs from type 2 diabetic ultra athletes … ride on!
@@DirtyTeethMTB Bought a Fatty in January. Discovered Your channel and I'm dreaming of Winter Ultras!!
Thank you. Junk food in this case takes apass.
Thanks for watching :)
How do I know what my body needs? I feel like half the time my cravings are the opposite of what it actually needs lol
Haha! That’s my problem in day to day life 😂 ride on!
Don't forget cheese!
Yep! 👊
Screw that, what makes me not do bikepacking...I'm a foodie first, biking second ...
😂😂 love it! Thanks for sharing :)
I'm sincerely amazed at how Americans don't have gut issues ingesting gobs of oily nut butter and junk food.
As an Asian, I'd prefer 7-Eleven Onigiri or Japanese microwave pasta. But that's the United States for you.
Thanks for sharing
Who says they don't? Stomach issues are really common in ultra cycling. And even if you're eating very clean, the constant activity paired with eating quite a bit can easily upset your stomach.
Can't compare Japan 7 and USA 7. The quality is so different. I wish all US 7s would be more "healthy" like Japan. I agree I can't stomach many things in US convenient stores. Gotta find a way though!
+1 on avoiding real groceries stores on the road. There’s nothing worse than trying to find food in a stores you don’t know the layout. Just awful
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Re grocery stores, at a slow touring pace, older Divide rider, I focus on Ramen or Knorr packs, tuna or chicken foil packs, cheese, milk, some fruit, trail mix nuts, cookies and head back to the bike. This year I'm using panniers for better food carry.
That travel diet of yours is horrendous, if only you were able to develop a menu plan that could be duplicated as needed and then stashed along the race route to be retrieved during your high speed passing by.
All ears for non-horrendous suggestions :) ps no food drops allowed on TD… would be considered support - ride on 🤙
@@DirtyTeethMTB Food drops, Mr. Grizz would enjoy that.🙂
And don't forget to celebrate with a side of type 2 diabetes.
True if you spend all day sitting in your mom's basement making snarky comments to youtube videos, but when Alan is working hard 24/7 in a calorie deficit his body's response to sugar is much different.
@@oldanslo I'm just here for the algorithm mate. You have to admit, the TD is a pretty bonkers event. Between the food, physical exertion, sleep deprivation and things that will eat you, it's amazing anyone finishes at all.
Thanks for sharing
Great advice! Ride on my friend.🚵♂️🚵♂️🚵♂️🚵♂️
Thanks! Will do!