Definitions of a good cycling diet have changed and diverged during my nearly-half century of dedicated riding. Around the time I first started taking rides more of more than an hour from my family's home, Eddy Mercx broke the hour record in Mexico City on a day when he downed toast, ham and cheese--all of which he brought from his native Belgium--for breakfast.
Over the years, we've been told not to eat meat or dairy during a ride, or at all. We've also been advised that we should consume carbohydrates and everything from GORP (good ol' raisins and peanuts) to Himalayan foxtail millet cakes slathered with yak butter touted as the ideal cycling foods.
Deep down, though, we all know there's one food all cyclists--in fact, all people--love:
Aside from showing a woman eating a slice while cradling a box of pizza on her exercise bike, this photo is funny in other ways. For one, it could only be from the '80's: When else would someone wear sport an outfit or hairdo like hers? Or wear a waist pack on an exercise bike?
But eating pizza: That's always permissible. It's one of the few things that never goes out of style, among cyclists or anyone else!
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