- It's been a while since we asked the pros this question
but we've got to revisit it, let's face it.
What do they carry in their pockets during a race?
What are they gonna have for lunch?
Let's go and find out.
(upbeat electronic music)
Okay, Dan, what's in your pockets for today's stage?
- Well, I've got a couple of OTE caffeine gels
- Yeah.
and a - Diggin' around in there.
- Maurten gel. - Yeah.
- Two rice cakes I think. - Aw, nice.
- Rice cakes.
- What's your favorite?
- What ever Suwanee has decided to make, honestly.
- You're not fussy?
- Not too fussy.
I was a bit dubious on the pineapple choice yesterday,
it was a good concept but not sure about the execution.
(laughs)
But today we're looking up it's strawberry and something.
(Upbeat Electronic Music)
- I've five bars and three gels
- Blimey, hungry?
- No, but maybe I don't have,
time for the peats-on. - Yeah, exactly, yeah.
- It's always better to have a little bit more food,
especially windy days.
- Yeah exactly, right, well good luck
and enjoy lunch. - Thank you.
- What have you got in your pockets for today?
What's for lunch?
- Some bars, some rice cakes and some juice.
- What's your favorite thing to have on the bike?
- Sorry?
- What's your favorite thing to have for lunch
when you're out riding?
- Actually, rice cake, or a banana.
Just something fresh, I mean,
bars you are riding the whole year with so,
it's also nice then to have something fresh
and something else.
- Bernie, what's for lunch today?
What's in your pockets?
- We've got some, some rice bars
- Yep
- Some gels, that's it pretty much.
- Yeah. What are you looking forward to the most?
- Today?
- Yeah.
Apart from the hill and the finish.
- Nah its all good, I mean its a nice stage.
Today if I have a bit of transfers
so I think at the moment when we're back in the hotel.
I'll have a shower.
- That's a nicest part of the day?
- Yeah.
- I agree actually.
- Agree.
Just some rest.
Nah but it's a good stage, looking forward.
- For lunch?
- Yeah, or a snack maybe
- Maybe slam down a brownie, oh okay.
- [Interviewer] What's that, what's this?
- [Maxime] Kind of cake, Something different to a sport bar.
- [Interviewer] Okay, a blueberry cake,
I like the sound of that.
- [Maxime] And we have a normal endurance bar.
- [Interviewer] Salted caramel.
- And some gels, for later
or maybe for earlier if it's cross wind.
- Yeah
- Easier to eat in a cross wind.
- Cool.
Nice, I'll tell you what, Bernie looked a bit jealous there
when he saw your blueberry cake.
- Yeah, I was like, but it's still revved up.
Still like homemade cake.
(Calm Electronic Music)
- What's for lunch today?
I've seen what the other Adam's got for lunch,
he's got a big bottle of gel, what have you got?
- I've just got, I haven't got a bottle,
I've just got the same thing, just like, six gels mate.
- Oh, down your back?
- No no, that's my radio in my pocket.
- Oh okay, so six gels for lunch.
- Six gels, mate. That's it.
- I'll tell you what, I've just seen
Maxime Monfort, your team mate,
he's got a nice looking blueberry cake.
- Belgium, innit.
All about that pastry life, mate.
- Will you try to get some off him or not?
- I've got black pudding in my pocket as well mate.
[Laughs]
And a pork pie.
[Laughing] - And haggis.
- And haggis, lovely.
- Brilliant, right, well enjoy your dinner.
- Cheers, mate.
(Upbeat Electronic Music)
- Hey what's in your pockets? - What?
- What's for lunch today? - What?
- What's in your pockets?
- I can't hear ya!
No, I've got this.
- Yeah what's that?
High energy carbs, fine, strawberry.
- Love a strawberry.
- You love strawberries.
- (Laughs) I could take this to another level,
but I'm not, I'm not goin' to.
- I'm glad, I'm glad for once
that we don't take it to another level.
- There's a line, and I'm going to stay behind it.
- Yeah, you always cross it though, right?
- Always.
- Well we haven't crossed the start-line yet.
What else have you got for lunch today?
- Got some gels.
I think someone stole something.
It was in here.
Yeah, someone stole it.
- Another rider who likes the race against the clock.
Alex, what's in your pockets for lunch?
- One of these.
- Voltage energy cake.
Voltage, there we are.
- Coconut flavor though.
- Oh.
- And and - I do like coconut.
- And - what else?
A raw bar.
- Apricot and almond.
- No milk, no gluten. - Nah
- Apricot and almond.
Rohan, you like the look of that don't you?
- Its raw.
- Raw, yeah.
(Laughs)
- Nah that's about it, some rice.
- And some rice?
- Yeah yeah, just a little bowl.
- [Laughs] A little bowl, yeah a little sushi bowl.
- Chopsticks, yeah.
- Nice, right well enjoy lunch boys.
- What's for lunch today?
What's in your pockets?
- In my pockets?
- Yeah.
- Ah, some lizard skin,
a potion of toad warts,
something like that.
I've got some rice bars.
- Sushi? That says sushi.
- Yeah, I prefer salmon, as opposed to tuna myself.
- There we are, dinnertime when it comes
to being a professional cyclist.
Let me know though, what do you carry in your pockets
when you go out for a ride?
The wild and the wonderful, I wanna know everything
you take with yourself.
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