- Can we have a look and see what's in your pockets?
- Yeah, at the moment, nothing.
- Oh no!
(dramatic music)
- Can we see what's in your pockets or tell us?
- Yeah sure, like gels,
SiS gels.
- SiS vanilla flavor.
- Vanilla is a good one.
- Yeah.
- I recommend it.
Want to rice cake as well?
- Yeah.
- Chocolate, plain, oh no plain.
- Two. - I like plain.
- Yeah.
- Easier to digest on a stage like this for me,
so nine gels, something like this two rice cakes.
- With nine gels.
- Yeah.
- Hey dude, you're going to go well today.
- Yeah, you have to keep up the,
I think today is important, you know.
It's going to be a really tough stage,
so rather to have too much,
I can throw it away, you know, than too less.
- Thank you so much, man.
Can we have a look and see what's in your pockets?
- Here?
- Yeah.
- In the rain jacket, nothing, then I have some...
- It's going to be interesting.
- One bar.
- Some rice cakes, salty ones.
- He's gone for a salty rice cake.
- And...
some gels.
- And plenty of gels.
- Two coffee ones and two normal ones.
- There you go.
- Nothing.
- Oh no! (Scott laughs)
(interviewer laughs)
What is going to go in your pockets?
- So today, I'm going to take a cape,
my radio obviously, normally about three or four gels
and then yeah, five or six pieces of race food as well.
- It's a big stage mate.
I've ridden it, but I didn't get up the Gavia
and I don't think you guys are too but enjoy it anyway
and enjoy that Mortirolo, it's a horrendous climb.
- Cheers guys, thank you.
- Have you filled your pockets yet with food?
- Yes, I have.
- If so, can we have a look at what you've got?
- Okay then, can I say no I haven't?
(both laugh)
- You can if you want.
- No, today's just all gels, that's it,
so it's all gels.
Yeah, I like to have the,
like especially 'cause we've got a lot of climbs,
it's going to be super cold,
so I want to have super high blood glucose levels,
So I don't, you know, get cold
and it really gives you a bit of a peak in insulin
and gives you a bit of a nice warm head out
so I don't freeze on the descents and that
and so it's going to be a high gel day today, for sure.
- No real foods or rice cakes, that kind of thing?
- No, I'm lactose intolerant
so that really cuts out a lot of my...
- That makes it a bit more difficult.
- Yes, the gels it is.
- Good luck, mate.
Thank you very much for your time.
And then, can we have a look and see what's in your pockets,
I know you're warming up so don't mind?
- Well, my jersey, I have lots of gels
for the final, I've got six gels.
Then we have some jam panini's,
some chocolate rice cakes.
So, try and eat them in the first half.
- Jenko's famous chocolate rice cakes.
- Rice cakes, yeah, so we'll try and get them eaten
in the first two or three hours
and stick to gels heading for the last two.
- Sweet Eddie, thank you so much, man,
- Perfect, thank you.
- And the last question is, can we have a look
and see what's in your pockets for today?
- Yes, there's absolutely nothing in my pockets
at the moment. - Oh!
(interviewer laughs)
- I've only got my radio.
- So only a radio in his pockets today
so he's going, well, empty.
- Uphill start.
(both laugh)
- I've just had 10 gels for breakfast in my porridge so.
(interviewer laughs)
- But no, usually I'll have, I do my bars in this pocket
and then I have the radio and gels in the middle pocket.
And then yeah, usually rice cakes
or something a bit different.
(female voice on radio)
Yep.
Usually rice cakes or something a bit different
in the other one and yeah, keep a booster in there.
- How many gels?
- It depends, on a day like today I'll have a lot of gels.
- Yeah.
- Because it can be quite hard to eat
and you also, yeah they're good with lays
and stuff like that.
Like if it's raining, if it's a rainy day or something,
I usually even tuck gels up my knicks
'cause they're pretty easy to get to all the while.
- Knicks are shorts, for the English of you over there.
- Oh yeah.
(both laugh)
Yes.
- Right, thank you so much, man.
I know that you've got to go and get signed on
and all that kind of stuff so good luck today.
Could we have a look and see what you've got in your pockets
for today?
- For the start just gels
and one, sweet sandwich for the start,
before the start.
- Yeah.
- For the moment, just these gels and sweets sandwich.
- No nice rice cakes or bars?
Just a nice little sandwich and some gels.
A gel diet.
(Fran laughs)
- For the moment, just this
because maybe the race is completely,
maybe it's super fast in the beginning
and just gels to...
- Get through.
- Yeah
(Fran laughs)
- Mate, good luck, it's a tough stage but good luck,
you'll smash it, cheers buddy.
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