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MATT WILSON: When it comes to tactics in cycling, it really is sort of a game of chess on wheels.
ROBBIE HUNTER: It feels like organized chaos. A lot of guys around you, things are happening within an instant of a second.
You're getting around the corners as fast as you can.
STEVEN COZZA: Going down a hill at 60, 70k an hour in just lycra.
JONATHAN VAUGHTERS: I mean imagine opening your car door while in your underpants, and jumping out.
That's what it's like to crash in a bike race.
TOM DANIELSON: Nutrition is key to keeping your head in the game, you know.
The brain runs only off of glycogen, so
those storages go low and your decision-making goes out the door
and you know that's why you see a lot of crashes at the end of the stages.
It ends up most of the time taking off a hell of a lot of skin
and sometimes a couple of broken bones.
STEVEN: We've definitely all bonked, I'm sure.
And usually you bonk, not because of your fitness level
it's mostly because we lose track and forget to eat.
The directors are always yelling in the radio, Keep eating, keep eating.
MATT: SHOT BLOKS and Gels come out the car and you can grab on to 2,000 calories in one handful.
And you stick it in your back pocket and go up the side of the bunch.
When it comes to about 80 K to go I eat a CLIF SHOT Gel every 20 K.
ROBBIE: It keeps you on the edge and it keeps you awake so you stay on the topside of the bike.
TOM: If you've done your nutrition right, if you've taken your CLIF SHOT BLOKS all throughout the day
your glycogen levels are high. Then you can say, Hey, this is my moment. This is when I'm going to drop everybody.
And that's what makes cycling so beautiful.
There's nothing really like it.
[Crowd cheering and music]