These follow the progression of Cervélo Test Teams 2009 season. Of particular interest was Carlos Sastre's pre race smoothie.
Ingredients: 2 raw eggs, 2 table spoons Vin Santo, a squeeze of honey.Instructions: Blitz all ingredients with a blender and serve in a glass.
I've also read Sastre's favourite food is fried eggs and chips. He obviously likes his eggs.
Less polished but still of some interest are the Liquigas Cannondale videos. Breakfast at their training camp at Benicassim is lower on the egg content featuring bread, proscuitto, cheese and small pieces of tomato. Daniele Bennati seems to be genuinely excited about describing his breakfast intake.
Meanwhile, over at Team Garmin, the squad pushes Cliff Bar. David Millar guzzles 1 Cliff bar every hour and a packet of Shot Bloks every 45 minutes when he's in an inevitably doomed breakaway in a stage race. Dr Lim (Team Garmin's nutrition expert) also reveals some of the squad's non-sponsored mid race snacks. This includes his boiled potato with parmesan recipe as well as the now famous Dr Lim rice cakes. Apparently the boiled potato (skinned to remove the fibre) is best eaten near the end of a race as the potato rapidly increases blood sugar. Some nice tin foil origami is also displayed.Hydration-wise, Dr Lim informs us the riders get through 1.5 to 2.5 bottles of fluids every hour during a stage race - that's between 10 and 25 bottles. In one hot stage of the Vuelta the team went through over 400 bottles!
Things get bizarre when we head over to Team Milram.
Niki Terpstra gives tips on how to make your picnic a success and a number of recipes are featured which naturally all include Milram products. I would suspect Fillet of beef with cheese crust (including Agrafrost oven croquettes and Milram rahmkase) and Cheese Swirls with Paprikaquark (including 2 packets of Milram PaprikaQuark and 125g of Milram Benjamin cheese) may be behind the team's lack of success in 2009.
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