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SRMR 2022


Knowing what to expect for food, I went to town. Ugh, yes!! Eat everything.

Typical breakfast offered at hostels Lamb kurdaak from a road-side restaurant. Two small bowls for tea - one to drink out of and the other for the tea to cool off. Bread is easy to resupply with. Condensed milk is a desirable addition to all of it Not worth it, imo Braided, super salty cheese. I imagine it might hold up well and it quite possibly shelf stable Chris's first meal. Hazelnut and orange latte? Omelette with hollandaise and waffle? Pizza. Didn't try this Nor this I should've made a more concerted effort in bringing more of these back. Milky nougat-y candy Chicken and waffle. Discovered my favorite breakfast option from Clever Coffee Nitro, a fairly common energy drink. This is the most common varietal but I think I most enjoyed the passionfruit one. Look at that terrible haircut I should've tried this. Not bad Halvah bars. I highly recommend them for any ultras. Good calories-to-weight ratio Never-ending Navat meals Fried fish, oven-baked salmon sushi roll, and the remains of a greek salad? Never not Navat-ing. Greek salad? I forgot what Chris got but it was delicious Loadout for grand depart. Tried out a lot of new things that worked for me. Should've packed more halvah. Squeezable ketchup was a great source of salt, important on those At this point, the race has begun. Bumped into Bali at a corner restaurant and shared a brief meal I showed a mutual friend this photo and they couldn't recognize Marcos, who normally wears a massive smile. Extremely hot day. A man had waved us into a non-descript building which turned out to be a shop. The electricity was out but their ice cream cones were still frozen. We may have had 3-5 each. It's like a brick of milky ice cream. How I continue to crave this.. Otw to CP1 but kept getting distracted by some of the best raspberries I ever had. Met Pak, who doesn't speak English but was delighted for a road-side snack. Saving some for later Wow, I hadn't seen Jeff in more than a week. I recognized his bike outside this restaurant in Kazarman. We both got two orders of manty. The massive shawarma was for to-go. Standard salad found everywhere. Tomato, cucumber, dill, onions, and some vinaigrette Bumped into Jeff again in Naryn. He stayed in town for the night but I kept riding until Eki-Naryn Intersection Cafe. I can't believe I skipped this stop in 2019. I ended up eating 3-4 fried fish. I still dream of this place Fanta Apple. Tastes like apple cider Typical lunch for me. Decadent thick yogurt, some fizzy drink, and ice cream! CP3. Song-kul. That instant noodle + ground pork(?) was such a treat. No meals available for to-go here but I did get a bunch of fresh bread with plenty of ghee. What a delight that would be a few hours later. I grabbed pocketfuls of the candy offered Ngl, this was a phenomenal combo. Midnight, a few minutes before crossing Shamshi pass Almost back to Bishkek but had to stop for these plums. Did you know they can grow on the same tree as apples? I don't understand the science of that! Post-race, Pak knew a local place for KBBQ. He had met some earlier when he landed and they invited him to swing by. What a meal! And what a way to celebrate Ice cream run at a Globus All on the same wavelength! English brekkie. Beans, sausage, dark bread. Acai bowl on the side Hm. Didn't get to try I hear Max Fun (orange version) is a grail item. Fizzy poprocks inside, I think Gelato at a local mall Some sort of potato gratin with lamb. Navat. Interesting! Didn't try I'm a creature of habit. More chicken and waffle from Clever Coffe Another solid brick of milky ice cream Mid-day weekday lunch in K-Town. Masa By Fresh Box Sushi, a chain This really hit the spot Osh Bazaar open market I forgot what Thai restaurant this was Torro! Tight fit. Adin approved of the burger. Guaranteed to find a lot of racers here. Food here is kinda like New American. We did not get the limo seat. There must've been 30 of us here.. (sorry to the waiters!) Some wild mushroom soup Vinoteca Torro yet again! Surf and turf shrimp burger. The dish came with some nitrile gloves so you don't get your hands dirty Boba. Just okay.





SRMR 2019


Far from exhaustive but this was some of the food I ate while racing in Kyrgyzstan back in 2019. I didn’t take photos of Snickers and Coca Cola because that comprised so many of my meals. Make sure to stock up with more than 2-3 days of food at a time. You never know when the racer ahead of you bought the last banana/snickers/almondjoy/whatever you stomach desired.


korot balls. Shelf stable. salty cheese. acquire taste. good as "salt tablet" replacement. so many instant coffee powder options $1USD=94som someone's note on what to eat i usually stock up on nuts in stores like these. peep that corner full of candy. they do love their sweets ice cream at every stop when possible google translate helps sometimes kirieshki brand. flavored croutons note that 100BCE instant noodle packet. iti's my go-to if you come across it. kattama bread in the bag. fruits whenever you come across them lagman boso. i could eat this all day sweet corn puffs in the bottom bag. instant noodles in bulk. bad idea. instant noodles broke into smaller pieces and tore up every other bag this bag came with a dipping thing of ketchup. i did not know. CP1 feasting! Lower right thing is similar to dahn sahn (sugary butteryfly/bowtie fried dough) lagman boso at jangy-talap. so-so breakfast. one whole thing of whatever pastry. easy to spot bikepackers kinda like the Trader Joe's gummy tummy penguins damn good smoked cheese stick open markets samsa sage holding a skewer of shashlyk. main dish of plov and kuurdak behind it found on so many corners! maksym (wheat drink), chalap (korut drink), and chai (green tea) Shoro is the main brand. This is a cup of maksym Friend requested these

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