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"A typical food-log entry listed 3,800 total calories. His meals that day included coconut oil, avocados, eggs, almonds, cashews, chicken breasts, beef jerky, string beans, onions, and protein powder."

Sounds a lot like my diet.

When I rode the MS150 a few weeks ago, I was completely bonk-free with just a dixie cup of nuts/m&ms and a dilute cup of gatorade (yellow original of course) at each 10 mile rest stop.

Gotta have enough dietary carbs/proteins in comming in for aerobic metabolism to function - otherwise proteins will be cannibalized from lean tissue to run the citric acid cycle.

"5. Since oxaloacetate is depleted by gluconeogenesis, Dr. Atkins has postulated that fat calories won’t be utilized in
the absence of carbohydrate. Based on what you now know about the citric acid cycl
e, what is the basic falacy of this hypothesis? (Where does oxaloacetate come from when we break down protein?) "
http://www.med.unc.edu/neurology/files/documents/child-teaching-pdf/CITRIC%20ACID%20CYCLE.pdf

Got oxaloacetate?

Aerobic and Anaerobic metabolisms are not mutually exclusive but, rather, synergistic --- with an increased aerobic capacity being a key to being able to process anaerobic waste products.