HANNAH GRANT

WHO IS HANNAH GRANT?

Hannah Grant fed a WorldTour team across five seasons of Grand Tours and turned the experience into the most credible cycling-nutrition cookbook ever published. Trained at Noma, chef for Tinkoff-Saxo from 2011, Daytime Emmy winner for Eat Race Win — she is the rare voice who has cooked at fine-dining level AND fed riders racing 200km a day for three weeks. For Roadman's audience she is the practical answer to the question most amateurs avoid: what do you actually put on the plate, every day, to fuel real training without ending up fat or under-recovered?

KEY IDEAS

The major positions Grant is known for in cycling and endurance sport.

• →Quality cooking and performance fuelling are not in conflict — the same flavour discipline that wins Michelin stars makes athletes eat more of the right food.
• →Pro-team meals are mostly real food — pasta, rice, vegetables, fish — not gel-and-bar engineering. Amateurs who copy the supplements miss the actual diet.
• →Recovery food has to be appetising or it does not get eaten — the protein dose post-stage matters less than whether the rider actually finishes the plate.
• →Hydration is fuelling — the saltiest pro-team meal of the day is breakfast, deliberately, to set up the day's electrolyte balance.
• →Race-week kitchen logistics decide outcomes — the team that can cook fresh in a hotel kitchen at 11pm has a genuine performance edge.