Triathlete’s Progressive Breakfast

April 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm (Cycle) · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

Our version of the ‘Progressive Dinner’…..   

It’s the same idea - A group of friends travel from location to location (often each others’ homes), eating a different course of the meal at each stop.   However, the Triathlete’s Progressive Breakfast has one main difference:  We use the idea of ‘progressive’ literally.  We don’t really stop to eat.  We eat as we go, often one-handed and in small bites. :-).

Course 1:  Oatmeal served warm with bananas and brown sugar, hot coffee, large glass of water.   Can be eaten in the car with the bikes on top on the way to the meeting spot on the Burke-Gilman Trail.

Course 2:  Gatorade or electrolyte elixir of your choice.  Be sure it’s an excellent vintage! Consumed ‘progressively’ as required - much as a beer or wine glass would be nursed in a progressive dinner.   Cheers!

Course 3:  Bugs.  Yes, bugs.  These are handy protein snacks that are also easy to eat!  Just open your mouth to breath and in they go.   Bug trapping is enhanced if you wear lip balm.  The little critters get stuck in the goo to save for later.  This course is consumed on the part of the trail that runs along side Sammamish Slough.

Course 4:  Shot Blox.   Preferrably Lemon-Lime flavor.  3 eaten at the Marymoor Turnaround, 3 more on the way back.   Followed with a rowdy shot of gatorade or water.   Hoo-ahhh!

Course 5:  DESSERT!  (Yes, triathletes have dessert for BREAKFAST!  Yeha!)   GU!  Plain - or if you are feeling festive, we also have Mint-Chocolate!  Excellent around the holiday season!

Course 6: Transition to the Run…. we recommend taking a rest from eating on the run. Use this time to socialize and take in the scenery. After all, running with your mouth full is bad manners. You may, from time to time, sip your elixir of choice. Social drinking is encouraged!

Course 7:  Post-Brick Snack:  Chocolate Milk, served ice cold, consumed after the bike is back on the car, the legs are stretched out - and we are on our way home.   Yum!

Everyone is welcome!

Workout:

  • Type: Cycle
  • Date: 04/27/2008
  • Time: 12:40:48
  • Total Time: 1:32:00.00
  • Distance: 22.5 miles
  • Average Speed: 14.67 mph

2 Comments

  1. Lisa Sabin said,

    April 27th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    Chocolate milk supposedly has the perfect combo of protein, carbs and fat. My nutritionist friends recommend it as a recovery drink. The chocolate mint gu is pretty good too. :)

  2. auggiesdad said,

    April 27th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    is this a weekly, monthly, or seasonal “event”? sounds like a blast!