Welcome to the podcast dedicated to Making You a Faster Cyclist.

Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road.

Today we have Dr. Kyle Fauphinbach with us from Eastern Oregon University and we are going

to talk about high-dose carbohydrate and why you might want to take more in at a certain period of time and take

less in during others or maybe that's a bad idea.

We'll talk about homemade drink mixes and some things you can do to increase the sodium

rate and we may even have time to get into protein. We might just cover one of those

topics, but just the same. Kyle, stoked to have you amidst the, I'm sure all the things you have going on

with athletes over at Paris for the Olympics.

Dario sent in this question.

And I'll try to, I'm not sure if all the details are here,

so I'll provide my interpretation.

And Dario, if I mess it up, let me know. It says I've just watched

Gustav Eden talk about having 160 grams of carbs in his bottles during his

Kona World Championships win. Considering how quickly sugar is processed, doesn't it not make sense for a

triathlete to drink that much carbs during the bike as it won't assist him on

the run anymore? So I think that what he's saying here is and I've seen this as well

Gustav was talking about running 160 grams in each bottle when he was cycling

on the bike leg portion of the Hawaii, the world championships there in Kona.

And then I assume that what he's asking here is that there's kind of a popular assumption in practice in the triathlon world where they take in a ton of carbs on the bike because later on in the run

they can't take on as many it's just logistically complicated with how you're going to

carry it but then also all the

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