Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
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Re: Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
#2> Not so long ago, the professional cycling world's approach to fuelling was remarkably basic. [...]
> These days, it is an entirely different prospect, with vast sums spent on custom-built food trucks, personalised nutrition apps and meticulously planned meal regimes all in the name of performance enhancement.
> For the nutritionists and chefs tasked with providing sustenance to power their team's riders over 2,170 miles in the coming weeks there are principally two dilemmas [...]
> The answers are gleaned from a year-round process that begins in December during pre- season training.
You know that it has become the Sport Of The 0.0001% when...
Re: Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
#3> Not so long ago, the professional cycling world's approach to fuelling was remarkably basic. [...] > These days, it is an entirely different prospect, with vast sums spent on custom-built food trucks, personalised nutrition apps and meticulously planned meal regimes all in the name of performance enhancement. > For the nutritionists and chefs tasked with providing sustenance to power their team's riders over 2,170…
Sometimes I wonder should we go to basics in many sports.
With things like banning any equipment including clothing and shoes... Or with cycling giving one standard mass manufactured piece. And then a pile of standard replacement parts and standard tools. All bought from cheapest supplier randomly distributed to participants.
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Re: Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
#5> Not so long ago, the professional cycling world's approach to fuelling was remarkably basic. [...] > These days, it is an entirely different prospect, with vast sums spent on custom-built food trucks, personalised nutrition apps and meticulously planned meal regimes all in the name of performance enhancement. > For the nutritionists and chefs tasked with providing sustenance to power their team's riders over 2,170…
It's not a sport of the 0.0001% when anybody can go buy a bike and ride.
At the top level of any sport and in the top race or competition of that sport, it is going to represent the pinnacle of that sport.
Re: Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
#6> Not so long ago, the professional cycling world's approach to fuelling was remarkably basic. [...] > These days, it is an entirely different prospect, with vast sums spent on custom-built food trucks, personalised nutrition apps and meticulously planned meal regimes all in the name of performance enhancement. > For the nutritionists and chefs tasked with providing sustenance to power their team's riders over 2,170…
Sometimes I wonder should we go to basics in many sports. With things like banning any equipment including clothing and shoes... Or with cycling giving one standard mass manufactured piece. And then a pile of standard replacement parts and standard tools. All bought from cheapest supplier randomly distributed to participants.
How 'spartan'...
That aside, regarding cycling, standard mass manufactured piece? In one size that all have to fit to?
Naa...
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Steroids after cancer-survival! Thats steroids on steroids!
Re: Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
#8Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on this stuff, and then someone finds the right, undetectable doping mix, and bye bye.
Re: Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
#9Note for everyone that will come in here to say the secret is drugs : In cyclism taking drugs is not considered a secret, it's common practice.
Re: Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road
#10Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on this stuff, and then someone finds the right, undetectable doping mix, and bye bye.
Tbf, millions is spent on that part. This seems to be a drop in the bucket.