How many calories will the winner burn?
- Written by: John Eric Goff, Professor of Physics, University of Lynchburg
Tour de France riders have to eat constantly to replenish the energy they burn. Filip Bossuyt/Flickr, CC BY-ND
CC-BY-ND.Imagine you begin pedaling from the start of Stage 17 of this year’s Tour de France. First, you would bike approximately 70 miles (112 km) with a gradual increase in elevation of around 1,300 feet (400 m). But you’ve...