{"id":146989,"date":"2017-03-02T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=146989"},"modified":"2017-03-02T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:48:51","slug":"contador-confident-plan-beat-everybody-le-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/03\/02\/contador-confident-plan-beat-everybody-le-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Contador Is Confident in His Plan to Beat Everybody at Le Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you aim for win, you should have a strategy. Alberto Contador, a 34-year-old Spanish racer, recently joined a new team \u2013 Trek-Segafredo, and he couldn\u2019t be happier about it. Apparently, he feels just at home there, as he told Cycling Weekly<\/em><\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s a new motivation, a new team and new equipment. New people. Already, we have a good feeling,\u201d Contador said. \u201cWe are in February, but the feeling is that I\u2019ve been in this team already two years. This helps. When you are enjoying your time outside the race, in our hotel and training camps, you have a higher team performance in the race.\u201d<\/strong>
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But that\u2019s not all. Sure, having a strong support team and mutual understanding within it can boost both your mood and your performance but, according to Alberto, the key to beating Froome and others is in the art of resting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need holidays,\u201d Contador told Cycling Weekly<\/em> in Abu Dhabi where he recently successfully competed under his new team, after making a debut with in at Ruta del Sol. His first goal of the 2017 season is Paris-Nice but he claims that he already has plans to win it. He stated that Abu Dhabi was just for training and that winning Paris-Nice will mean a stepping stone and a certain success at le Tour. Anyway, he has a week of vacation scheduled just before this world\u2019s greatest cycling holiday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t know where I\u2019ll go. [\u2026] It\u2019ll be around one week, and afterwards, starting little by little to train for the Tour de France. I always do this because it\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are concentrated 100%, you need to take time off your bike at 100%. I think that\u2019s important. When you are training at altitude for one month, eating the minimum possible and training hard as possible, you need to have your head ready. To do that, you need to be fresh mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We can\u2019t agree more, over-straining yourself to near-zombie state never benefited anybody. It has been proven that when athletes actually visualise themselves doing the sport in their minds, imagining how they would achieve their goal, it can be of significant help.<\/p>\n

Trek-Segafredo team apparently returns Contador\u2019s enthusiastic feelings. After all, he\u2019s an accomplished rider who has two wins of the Giro d\u2019Italia, two of the Tour de France, and three of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a under his belt. And we are not even mentioning his tactical skills on the track. He\u2019s an attack mastermind and when you pair this with his renowned strength you got yourself a real ace in the sleeve.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOf course, if you have a bad day or something strange, you can try to do different things. I want arrive at 100%. Sometimes, you don\u2019t arrive in good condition. I\u2019ll do everything I can to arrive in the best condition for the Tour de France and look to see how my legs are on the climbs,\u201d Contador said to Cycling Weekly<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We would certainly pay a penny for Froome\u2019s thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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