WHEREVER THE RACE IS, we arrive on the Monday before – the catering team, that is – and immediately we go shopping for produce, using whatever bits of language we have, Italian or Spanish, to get exactly what we want. Then we offload our catering equipment and set up our kitchen. By Tuesday we’re normally allowed in to start preparing, and this is our most important time because it’ll soon be full steam ahead.
On Wednesday the actual race team starts to arrive, so we normally serve a lunch and a dinner, Thursday
