Feeding - 'G'
training - between November and June slowly chisels his weight down with fish, salad, vegetables, quinoa and hog-fibred rice and pasta. Healthy fats from avocados, salmon and olive oil gives extra energy and supports the immune system
pre-race dinner salmon with low-fibre, easy2digest white rice. Breakfast [this gets to me
] ham omelette, bread and honey, fruit and yoghurt, porridge or muesli (I'm done already ) fruit smoothing and an espresso. Add to that B4 a mountain stage, pasta or rice ........ PHEW! That would last me a week
and he hasn't done yet.
mid-race consumes two 500ml bottles of energy drinks or water per hour. Snackes every half an hour, aiming for 60-90g of carbs per hour. Rice cakes, flapjacks and panini followed to softer energy bars and gels.
post race recovery shake immediately, a bowl of tuna and rice or quinoa and chicken. Dinner chicken and rice or pork rags with pasta. With broccoli or beetroot salad. During 3 week le Tour he will consume around 21kg of energising white rice.
PHEW++. It can't do riders guts any good over a long period of time ...........
He enjoys a 🍺 / 🍻 with his mates 'off season' as well as Welsh cakes ;-)
