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Team Sky Giro 2016 rest day 1 ride (source Twitter).JPGVideo: Rest day? What rest day? Team Sky ride 50km from airport to hotel
In cycling’s Grand Tours, the term “rest day” is a bit of a misnomer. There’s plenty for mechanics to do, often after a long drive the previous evening, there are press conferences to be held, and the riders will get out on their bikes for a while to keep the legs spinning.
As in 2014, when the Big Start took place in Northern Ireland, this year’s Giro d’Italia unusually features three rest days, the first taking place today to accommodate the long journey to Calabria from the Netherlands.
Team Sky’s solution to how to make sure the riders’ legs didn’t seize up following this morning’s 1,700-odd kilometre flight from the Netherlands to Lamezia Terme was to have staff waiting at the airport with bikes and kit so they could hop straight on and ride the remaining 50 kilometres to the hotel.
The riders didn’t seem too unhappy at the prospect of it, as this video posted to Twitter shows.
Straight off the plane. Bikes and staff waiting at the airport. 50km training ride back to the hotel #Giro pic.twitter.com/blFBNAlk4x
— Team Sky (@TeamSky) May 9, 2016
#Giro rest day blues? Follow us on Instagram as carer @_BenJenko is taking over our account: https://t.co/FuI2KcQkqx pic.twitter.com/8lE9pfr0vm
— Team Sky (@TeamSky) May 9, 2016
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Only reading the headline on the homepage, not the rest of the article, but I only ride mountain bikes and I still get close passed...
- wtjs 23 min 32 sec ago
Fair enough, personal experience may trump (not that one) theory. However, the bonking I have experienced has been due to lack of carbs. Your point...
- wtjs 36 min 41 sec ago
Agreed, but he was still right to publicise the event. The police, if they're anything like Lancashire, will do nothing at all.
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mdavidfrodo?
- BikingBud 3 hours 11 min ago
How can anybody reject the beauty of that? It's a wonderful mix of modern tech yet absolutely functional.
- amawby 4 hours 20 min ago
Not unless theVED is made eye wateringly expensive....
- wtjs 5 hours 30 min ago
in the UK we have policing which to a greater or lesser extent relies on assistance from members of the public......
- Cadcam 6 hours 34 min ago
Just wanted to share a quick thank you to everyone who helped out in this thread....
- SecretSam 6 hours 48 min ago
So...don't cycle on it. Lots of other routes around that area. Source: I used to work there.
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50km is a little short for a rest day ride but it isn't about "training" but more about keeping supple and maintaining blood flows.
Maybe it isn't "news" but shouldn't and doesn't the site publish things that are interesting to as wide a range of people as possible. On that basis I'd say this article is certainly relevant for the site.
Every single team goes for a ride on the rest days, I think this more about getting straight off the plane and riding to the hotel, which _is_ quite unusual. Also got the impression the article was done in a light-hearted manner, not to be dissected like summer cyclingnews race report but perhaps that's just me.
50k is nothing of a distance to a pro especially if they are taking it easy. Cool down session
yeah, this isn't news. Virtually all the pros go for a ride on the 'rest day'. In fact it's thought that you lose your form if you don't go for ride.
nothing to see here. Move along.