Thinking out loud here…
Trying to nail down fueling for a “fast” century with maybe one stop for water. Want to get my gut trained to handle as much as possible. Target time 5hr fwiw.
I do my long road rides with 2 1000ml bottles which usually last 2 hours each. I’ve handled 85g/hr of carbs in a couple long races earlier in the year. Sometimes I teeter on gut distress depending on the effort level though.
What I’m wondering is if I mix 2 hours worth of carbs per bottle (around 20% mix, call it 160g in 1000ml bottle minus the room the powder takes up) would that be way too much to handle?
I normally do 90g in these big bottles and the taste is great and it works well coupled with other things like gels and stroopwaffles. This is 2:1 Gatorade powder, maltodextrin and some sodium citrate.
I know the only way to find out is to try but just had these thoughts pop up this morning and thought I’d see if anyone is doing something similar.