Cycling and Food: Fuelling the Peloton

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the start of the Tour de France, cycling presenter and former racer Rebecca Charlton takes you behind the scenes at one of the world's biggest bike events to find the race is on in the kitchen to fuel riders who need to eat up to 8,000 calories per day for three weeks straight. She learns about Chris Froome's nutrition plan with Olympic coach and now Team Principal at Team Sky, Sir Dave Brailsford, she joins chef Sean Fowler as he cooks for the Groupama FDJ team as they fight for a place on the podium and she hears how the author of the Grand Tour Cookbook Hannah Grant had to battle to get her meals on the table in some of the worst kitchens imaginable.

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0:49.0	Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program. Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy it. When I first started I knew absolutely nothing about cycling and I thought you know I'll do this for a year and then move on to the next big plan and then as you start to work with the riders and the team and develop a relationship between the riders as you
1:15.0	start to work with the riders and the team and develop a relationship between the riders as you cook.
1:23.0	Then it becomes, you know, you start to get to know these guys.
1:26.0	And when they race, you can feel their victory and their defeats.
1:31.0	And then it becomes a very personal thing.
1:34.0	It's kind of like a little bug that comes and bite you and once you have it it's impossible to get out of. Oh, and he's attacking.
1:47.0	Yes!
1:48.0	He's attacking!
1:50.0	He's attacking!
1:51.0	Ah no! Welcome to the food program. I'm Rebecca Charlton, former racing
1:57.0	cyclist and journalist and this is fueling the peloton, food and cycling.
2:05.0	It's the closing stages of the Giro D'Italia, a cycling race that for 101 years
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