After Coach Han finished laying out the tactics, it was already getting late, so Huang Chong naturally returned to his room to rest.
After six straight days of high-intensity racing, rain or shine, he had not been dropped thanks to the system supplies, but this was still, strictly speaking, his first stage race.
This kind of intense competition had left him utterly exhausted, both physically and mentally.
He could barely imagine how riders endured the Grand Tours on the UCI WorldTour, which lasted a full twenty-one days.
Especially since many riders competed in two Grand Tours in a single year.
Visma's Sepp Kuss was even more insane, riding all three Grand Tours in one year. The sheer intensity was terrifying.
Anyway, after actually experiencing a stage race, Huang Chong felt that if he were to ride a Grand Tour now, merely finishing it without getting dropped would probably be his limit.
As for fighting for stage wins or the overall title, that was pure fantasy, a daytime dream.
After Huang Chong returned to his room, before he had even brushed his teeth, Chen Junyi hurriedly brought him a pot of beef bone soup she had personally simmered.
She had specially made it with beef bones that had been tested and approved by the national team.
Following nutritional guidelines, she had also added codonopsis and ophiopogon, ingredients that could help condition the body, ease fatigue, clear internal heat, and nourish the lungs.
As Huang Chong drank the beef bone soup, he found that it tasted unexpectedly good. There was no gaminess, nor any strange medicinal flavor.
Instead, it tasted like a Cantonese medicinal stew.
Looking at Chen Junyi sitting beside him, seriously studying the terrain and data for tomorrow's seventh stage on her tablet, he thought for a moment before asking,