00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30Before the race starts is pre-race fueling, so effectively breakfast, generally three hours before the race starts.
00:40So they'll have maybe 150 grams of carbohydrate in their body before they start their race.
00:49So generally speaking, every hour we suggest 100 to 120 grams of carbohydrate during particularly high-intensity racing.
01:00The DSs in the car, they're the ones on the radios, the riders, and just reminding them that they need to make sure they're having drinks and fuel just to have every 20 minutes or so,
01:11so around about 40 grams of carbohydrate, just to make sure that the fueling is spread out enough and they're not ingesting too much juice quickly,
01:18but then also not making sure that there's a long period of time where they've gone without.
01:24Generally speaking, you'd have, in a feed, you'd have two bottles, so two to-be-dons, maybe one water and one containing a 40 gram carbohydrate drink.
01:34Then you'd also have maybe two bars, so it could be a rice cake or it could be another softer bake bar, and then maybe three or four gels.
01:44The juice that you might have seen is the initial one, so that's a concentrated cherry juice.
01:52Very high in antioxidants, and that's to help improve the recovery process earlier on.
01:58And again, that's just to start the recovery process, replenish the muscle glycogen, ready for the next stage and the next day.
02:04If you're a good rider still, and you're fueling well, you can maybe outperform others that aren't fueling quite as well.
02:13So it's a dynamic race scenario.
