For a non-cyclist, “riding” usually means you disappear for several hours and come back sweaty, muddy, and looking somehow both well-rested and terribly exhausted. They might even politely pretend to care about your Strava segments, but let’s be honest: they don’t. They really don’t. So…
Don’t see mud as an obstacle – see it as part of the fun. Sliding, skidding, and the occasional fall are the fastest ways to take your technical skills to the next level. Maybe you hate riding in the mud, yet somehow you feel better…
From now on, I will use a template to write the first line of every story about a Grand Tour or one-day race in which world, and now European, champion Tadej Pogačar rides. It will read like this: Tadej Pogačar won the [name of race]…
UAE Team Emirates–XRG’s rising young superstar Isaac del Toro added another triumph to his growing Palmares by catching Tom Pidcock (Q36.5) in the final kilometre of Saturday’s Giro dell’Emilia and beating him to the finish line.
