Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road - BBC Sport

Replacing the 6,000 calories burned daily by a Tour de France rider, while negotiating the vaguaries and motorways of a 21-stage, 2,100 mile race is a formidable challenge.

Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens

Image source, bbcBen BloomBBC Sport A few weeks prior to a previous Tour de France, amid the maelstrom of planning involved with eight riders and more than a dozen support vehicles navigating the country, EF Education-EasyPost head performance chef Owen Blandy received notice of an issue at one of the hotels.

For reasons unexplained, Blandy was told he would not be allowed to use the hotel kitchen, nor even cook in his own food truck on site.

If he desired, he might be able to supervise the hotel's own chef in their preparations, but would not be permitted to do so from inside the kitchen.

For a man tasked with fuelling a professional cycling team throughout the most important race on the sport's calendar, it was not ideal news. But he was entirely unflustered.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/articles/cxxx568grlwo

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