He advised me to get my body used to the eating routine that I will have in Greenland, which will be a
good breakfast high in complex sugar
which means slow release energy, like oats, with sugar or honey, and dried fruits, and
we need to drink at least 1/2 litre.
Then we will ski for 50 minutes, and take a 10 minutes break.
During each break, we need to drink about 1/2 litre and eat fast releasing sugar. I like dried fruits, sesame snaps, raisins, nuts, flapjacks or brownies. We must be careful to eat what we find easy to digest as we don't want our stomach to use up too much of our energy reserves. If we ski during 8 hours, how many breaks will we have? (the answer is at the bottom of the page....)
When we set camp, we have dinner, and again these are slow release, complex sugars, to replenish our body of energy and lots of fluids.
We also talked about training as he currently training a team of rowers who will cross the Indian Ocean... He advised me also to start to have the same training routine as in Greenland. Which means go to the park with a lot of water and snacks, roller-ski for 50 minutes and do a 10 minutes break, and so on. He also said that I should either pull a tyre, or carry a backpack. I could start with 10 kilos, increasing each week, to end up with 60 kilos by mid-April. It was great as it gave me a really good idea for Corsica. I am going to bring my walking poles and my backpack and do all the walking I can with the same 50/10 minutes + snacks routine. Training hard is great but I must be careful to build my strength as I don't want to injure myself before my expedition.
So I am going to keep a nutrition diary during the next few weeks and see which snacks give me the energy required to go on, which ones I digest the best, which freeze-dried meals I like best, how much water I drink, etc.. so that hopefully by the time I fly to Greenland I know exactly what works best for me.
The answer is 7 breaks...
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