Ride Longer. Ride Stronger
Description
You train with purpose. You build endurance and track your miles as you prepare for century rides and multi-day trips. But when your legs go hollow late in the ride, or you feel flat on day two, it's easy to assume you need more training.
More often, the real limiter is fuel.
Endurance cycling is as much a metabolic challenge as a cardiovascular one. Your muscles depend on a steady supply of energy, and when carbohydrate intake doesn't match the demands of your effort, performance drops regardless of how fit you are.
Ride Longer, Ride Stronger explains how your body produces the energy required for endurance riding and how to fuel in a way that supports sustained power. You'll learn why glycogen is often the limiting factor, why intensity shifts your fuel needs, how small deficits compound over multi-day rides, and how to build a practical fueling strategy that works in the real world.
This is not a diet book. It's a performance guide for serious recreational cyclists who want their nutrition to support their riding, not limit it.
If you want to finish long rides strong, recover more effectively, and ride at the potential you've trained for, this book will show you how.
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Person
Dr Rafoth is a retired gastroenterologist (liver and digestive disease specialist).
Training for the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Ride (a double century) in the late 1980's triggered his interest in nutrition for long distance rides. Unable to find a book on nutrition for bicyclists, he researched the available medical and scientific literature and published "Bicycling Fuel: Nutrition for Bicycle Riders" in 1988.
In the early 1990s, he continued what had now become a hobby, his interest in nutrition and athletic performance, with a dedicated website: Cycling Performance Tips (https://www.cptips.com/).
At work, Dr. Rafoth was being referred increasing numbers of patients with the diagnosis of "fatty liver", a disease impacted to a great degree by the patient's diet. His work counseling these patients on diet strategies led to an invitation to write a column for a local newspaper. Topics included the impact of diet on health, new discoveries in nutrition science, and the risks of diet fads (keto, paleo, purging). Those columns, which can be found at A Doctor's Rx (https://adoctorsrx.blogspot.com/) led to the idea for a book based on the science of nutrition.
In his spare time, Dr. Rafoth continues to enjoy traveling, especially when it involves bicycling in some form, as well as keeping up with what's new new in the areas of nutrition and athletic performance.
