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Looking closer at the L’Étape Hilly Stage course, I realised I might need to tweak my bike setup. I have goals for my average pace and even the KOM competition, but my inexperience with racing has made it hard to put together a pacing strategy. Here’s how I’m planning to tackle race day.

My bike setup

Two weeks before your big cycling event is where cyclists suddenly forget every sensible training decision they’ve ever made.

As race day approaches, it’s easy to convince yourself that one more hard training block will unlock a new level of fitness, that recovery is overrated, or that feeling...

April didn’t go to plan, and May started even worse. My training was derailed, so I had to get creative. Here is my last update before the race, where I talk about my training progress so far, my group riding practice, and how I plan to taper before the race.

The wheels came off in May

Elisa Balsamo didn’t get the opening maglia rosa in the way she would have chosen.

After being elevated to stage winner and race leader following Lorena Wiebes’s disqualification from stage 1, the Italian was careful with her reaction.

“It’s not the way I want ...

Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma–Lease a Bike teammates capped three weeks of domination of the Giro d’Italia by winning the last two fully competitive stages of the race in a manner that demonstrated what we’d expected from the start: no one else had a chance.

The 29-year-old Dane won his fifth...