Welcome to episode 433 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast presented by trainer road.

I'm coach Jonathan Lee and today we're going to talk a lot about nutrition because we have

Alex Larson from Alex Larson Nutrition with us. Registered dietitian also experience with

triathlon and cycling and the intersection and nutrition with all that. Stuck to have you Alex.

Thanks for having me again. It's good to be back. Of course. Yes, the listeners are probably very

happy right now to know they're going to get some good info and we also have IVA drain with us,

phantom bikes and trainer roads IVA drain. And we're going to talk some strategy stuff too and

I was going to walk us through that. Let's get into Kaido's question. I hope that's how you say

your name. Could be Kaido. Could be Kaido. I couldn't get a straight answer from the internet.

So it says, I was just wondering if dates were a healthy way to fuel your ride. There are a lot of

carbs in them, but also a lot of sugar. If fueling with only dates will it be bad for my health?

Also, do you have any tips for cheap high carb alternatives to gels and drink mix?

Thanks. Love the podcast and can't wait to hear your reply. And IV, this is kind of timely because

Tobin just said on last week's episode that he takes in dates as like an alternative fuel when he's

he's training. He likes dates and it's timely for me too because I'm trying to

take feeling a little bit more seriously and didn't realize how expensive it is. I mean,

like I did, but then you know, like when you're actually eating a ton of like space food,

like outer space and gels and can we normalize calling it space food? It's space food. It's not food.

And you know, so I was also kind of like, yeah, is there like a more affordable thing that we can do

here, like dates and rice. And anyway, so I've been experimenting with that too. But

nice.

Anyways, Alex, yeah, what do you think, Alex? Like, you know, being the registered

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