WHAT DOES DR ALLEN LIM SAY ABOUT IN-RIDE FUELLING?

THE SHORT ANSWER

Dr Allen Lim, sports physiologist, founder of skratch labs, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Lim lands on in-ride fuelling. The positions below are drawn from those conversations and wider published work.

WHO IS DR ALLEN LIM?

Dr Allen Lim is the sports physiologist who turned the World Tour kitchen on its head. As director of sports science at Garmin–Slipstream and personal physiologist to riders including Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde, and the Schleck brothers, he was inside the rooms where modern endurance fuelling shifted from sports-drink-and-bar standards to real food. He founded Skratch Labs, wrote the Feed Zone Cookbook series with Biju Thomas, and has shaped how an entire generation of amateurs thinks about hydration, on-bike fuelling, and recovery meals. His work matters because it sits at the intersection of physiology research and what actually works in a team kitchen on a Grand Tour.

LIM ON IN-RIDE FUELLING

Lim’s key positions on in-ride fuelling.

• →Real food on the bike (rice cakes, potatoes, baked goods) outperforms gels for many riders — gut tolerance is the limit.
• →Race-day fuelling has to be rehearsed in training — the day of an event is the worst time to discover a product does not work for you.

HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST

Episodes where Dr Allen Lim covers in-ride fuelling and related ground.

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