Cycling The last winterstages walk slowly on their end in the peloton. We were in the wake of Wanty-Gobert to look at first hand experience how it is there on a training camp crazy. A reportage from the wheel.
“Not fading, it’s going forward in this period of the year.” The WhatsApp’you of Benjamin Declercq lying there not to. The derdejaarsprof of Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise knows the ropes in the winter. While in Australia a lot is gekoerst, are still many teams in the run-up to the start of their season on stage in the South of Spain. And there is apparently even a lot. So stay Wanty-Gobert is between 15 and 25 January, ten days on the Costa Blanca. In full troop strength. All 21 riders are in Alfas del Pi present for the final preparations of the new cycling year.
On a visit to the Walloon, ProContinentale team develops the idea to one of the training sessions to pick up. Not in the truck at the nestor among the team managers, Hilaire Van der Schueren is also an attraction, but directly in the wheel of the training riders. A company we do not without a doubt let. First of all, because the condition in the apartment could not be reconciled with that of a seasoned professor In the second place, because there just on the chosen date, the training of 200 kilometers on the program. Is that for a while. “Lubricate the calves, but in” let Wanty rider Bart De Clercq know when we have him our plan from the cloths do after an interview about his hip injury.
