PRO CYCLISTS EAT AN INSANE AMOUNT OF FOOD!! #cycling #tdf #tourdefrance #tdf2025 #tourdefrance2025

Tadej better like hot dogs 😵‍💫

The 2025 Tour de France is next-level brutal:
• 3,338km in 21 days
• 52,500m of climbing (Everest 6x!)
• 101,000 calories burned (For Tadej, based on his assumed metrics)
• 385 hot dogs’ worth of energy 😳

Who’s your pick for the podium? 🏆 Drop your top 3 below! 👇

Just how hard is the 2025 Tour to France? Harder than you think. Check this out. This year’s race covers 3,338 km or 2,74 miles across 21 stages. That’s about the same distance as going from Los Angeles all the way to Atlanta or Madrid to Moscow. But those aren’t flat miles. The racers will have to climb 52,500 m or 172,200 ft. Breaking that down, they are averaging 2500 m or 8,200 ft of climbing per day. By the end of the tour, they will have climbed the equivalent elevation of summiting Everest all the way from sea level nearly six times. So, how many calories does it take to do all of that? A ton. That’s a lot of fish. Even with drafting, an athlete like Todd Pogachar, reigning Tour Def France champion, is likely to burn somewhere around 101,000 calories throughout the tour. to not finish in a calorie deficit, he’d have to consume 18.3 hot dogs per day. If you stacked all 385 of those hot dogs on end, they’d be taller than the Statue of Liberty. But of course, cyclists don’t eat hot dogs on the bike. Instead, these pros are likely to consume around one liter of fluid per hour and consume as much as 120 g of carbs, or the equivalent of four cans of Cokes per hour while they’re on the bike for all 21 stages. Depending on the product, that’s likely somewhere around $900 US worth of high carb drink mix and energy gels. And the craziest part is all this sugar is still likely to leave him with somewhere around a 60,000 calorie deficit that he’ll need to make up. These are the greatest athletes at the greatest race in the world, and we can’t wait to see it all unfold. Put your pick for the top three in the comments below. And if you want to become a faster cyclist, check out Trainer Road. It’s AI cycling coaching designed to make you faster, and it’s the number one rated cycling training app in the entire app store. Give it a shot for 30 days at trainerroad.com.