Dr Hutch: Carbohydrate intake and mid-race nutrition is a sport in itself

It’s time to get serious about your in-sofa fuelling, as per Homer.

You’ll be aware that the team radio messages that they play on TV coverage are a very partial picture of events. For a start, they’re released with a substantial delay so usually what you get amounts to a crackly direction to unleash a tactic that you were able to watch misfiring in real time two villages ago.

They’re normally repetitive: “Get to the front. Why aren’t you at the front? Everyone else is at the front.”