It was during a scorching hot stage 10 of the Tour de France last week that Jasper Stuyven noticed that his legs were sapped, his energy depleted.
“I looked at my computer and it said my temperature was 41°C. I had never seen that before,” the Lidl-Trek man tells Cycling Weekly. “I had just completely blown up after twice trying to follow attacks and I felt really quite overheated but I didn’t expect my temperature to be so high. Normally on hot days you stay around 38 to 38.5°C. I didn’t feel so good, to be honest.”
Combating heat has become cycling’s new frontier, with cooling strategies taking on as much importance as finely tuned preparation, stage recons
