120 g of carbohydrates/h can be translated into a giant plate of pasta or 18 bananas to be consumed during the three-hour course. It is, for obvious reasons, difficult to eat while riding at the pace that the elite riders do.
- This is quite difficult to manage, then it becomes a classic diet, says Norgren about the alternative of eating all the bananas.
Instead, you use another method to get the carbohydrates in.
- Nowadays, they take strong sports drink or gel, which they have taped to their legs, a hydration belt and have a tube and drink from to be able to easily take it in.
SVT broadcasts the classic Marcialonga starting at 8 a.m. in SVT1/Play on Sunday.