On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:15:48 -0700, John B.
wrote:

Good Lord! You say that you are riding a bicycle, not on some sort of
odyssey where one needs to carry provisions. Just eat, than ride, than
eat when you get home again. I used to do 4 to 6 hour rides without
stopping for lunch. You obviously can't do this on tea and toast but a
good breakfast should see you through to lunch. Or at least it used to
back in the day when farmers actually worked all day :-)

I have to be fed every four hours. It was worse when I weighed a
hundred and twenty on a frame that now carries a hundred and sixty
pounds and a lot less muscle -- I had to keep a hard candy in my mouth
most of the time that I was riding, or I'd feel like a puppet with cut
strings when I got off the bike at home.

But I've never carried any more emergency food than I can close my
hand around. (Food bars and snack sticks, mostly.)

Somebody on our tour from Albany, New York, to Warsaw, Indiana, had
ramen-noodle in his panniers, but it wasn't me and I don't recall that
we ever ate it. (We slept in some odd places, but there was always a
place to eat.) I was travelling with three people who ate only at
suppertime; my solution was to keep a box of dried fruit or the like
in my handlebar bag and snack whenever we paused. The night that I
realized that I couldn't go on eating both my meals and their meals,
they thought I'd taken sick!

The hotels would have to be a lot closer together if I attempted that
ride today.

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