A recipe book designed for cyclists, written by a Michelin-starred chef and champion athlete, who now cooks for British Cycling’s elite athletes. This is flavour some food to make you go faster.
Michelin-starred chef, world champion athlete and leading sports nutritionist Alan Murchison presents more than 70 delicious, easy-to-make and nutritionally balanced meals to help cyclists of all levels reach their cycling performance goals.
‘I can’t think of a finer chef to have written a book on nutrition and diet for athletes’ Tom Kerridge
A must-have recipe book designed for cyclists of all levels, written by Alan Murchison – a Michelin-starred chef and champion athlete who now cooks for British Cycling’s elite athletes. His easy-to-make and nutritionally balanced meals will help cyclists reach their cycling performance goals – this is flavoursome food to make you go faster.
The Cycling Chef features more than 65 mouth-watering recipes – including breakfasts, salads, main meals, desserts and snacks, as well as vegetarian and vegan dishes – each designed with busy cyclists in mind. They are all quick and easy to prepare, and are made from ingredients that are readily available in any local supermarket.
A good diet won’t make a sub-standard cyclist into a world beater, but a poor diet can certainly make a world class or any ambitious cyclist sub-standard. However, an optimised diet, whatever your potential, will help you reach your own personal performance goals.
- The first cycling cookbook written by a Michelin-starred chef/world champion athlete/leading cycling nutritionist.
- Alan Murchinson writes for Cycling Weekly and Cycling Plus – the UK’s biggest weekly and monthly publications – and has 16k followers on Twitter and 3k on Instagram. Over social media platforms Alan averages between 350,000 – 450,000 unique views per calendar month for cycling related topics. Alan is an ambassador for Specialized & Adidas.
Reviews
“I can’t think of a finer chef to have written a book on nutrition and diet for athletes… His drive and commitment to culinary precision is matched only by his passion and expertise.” – Tom Kerridge
“Alan’s dedication to competing at the highest level of sport combined with the creativity and skill of his cooking, make his approach to nutritional cooking nothing short of incredible.” – Ashley PalmerWatts – Executive Chef at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
Author Biography
Alan Murchison is a Michelin-starred chef with over 25 years’ experience working in starred restaurants (he held a Michelin star for over a decade and had 4 AA Rosettes whist executive Chef at L’Ortolan restaurant in Berkshire), he is also a multiple World & European age group duathlon champion, national level master’s cyclist & ex-international endurance runner.