What do pro riders do on Tour de France rest days?

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What do pro riders do on LeTour de France rest days? Find out what the teams will be getting up to when they're not racing cycling

Pro riders are packing in active recovery rides to stretch out their legs, but it’s not just that on the rest day ‘to-do list’. Refuelling, scouting out the next stage, dealing with journalists, sponsor duties, a lot is going on. Okay, there are lie-ins and massages to enjoy too, but a rest day isn't just a full day of relaxing and lazing about.

Let’s take a look at how much easier the pro riders took a rest day last year and how much recovery they needed.for insights into personalised biometrics including heart rate variability, resting heart rate, respiratory rate and sleep performance, to optimise recovery for each rider in the team. The graph above shows the data Whoop collection for the EF Education team across the first nine stages of the 2021 Tour and into day 10, the rest day.

 

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