Dave, Drink before you get thirsty, use a drink tube so you drink often (about every 20 minutes) and eat around 250 calories (mostly carbs) per hour. Exercising 5 to 10 hours per week really helps the endurance too. On trips, I like to have my water bag under my legs, with the drink tube coming up through the sprayskirt tube and jacket neck. The water bag makes for a nice leg pillow, and I can move it (2 1/2 gallons) around in the cockpit to help adjust the forward and back, as well as side to side trim of the kayak if I didn't load it perfectly. Just be careful about cockpit entrapment issues. See Doug's article in SK about that. Duane > ...As for nutrition, that's a good question. Duane Stoker who > does long crossings is a carb-man. I'd tend to agree. Hydration is the > biggest issue for me. My "paddling-machine" can't run on dry. > > Doug Lloyd > Victoria BC *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 31 2003 - 11:52:19 PDT
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