‘I think I’ll never do it again’ Filippo Ganna on his Hour of suffering
Ganna describes starting t♊o suffer from ‘the position and for my balls’ while aiming for the 57k♏m mark

Filippo Ganna made history on Saturday evening when he smashed through not only the UCI Hour record but also the technically unrestricted Human Best Effort previously set by Chris Boardman, riding a stunning 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:56.792km in one hour on the track.
“I think I'll never do again,” Ganna said in an interview following th🐓e successful Hour record attempt. “If I do it in the future [it will be] before going to retire like Wiggins, but I don't think before.”
Spe꧅aking about his mindset through the attempt, Ganna described a calm and collected start, before a painful finale.
“In the start, nothing,” he said when asked what he was thinking during the process. “Just🌳 the normal protocol - to take th𓆉e position and follow the line.”
With the attꦡempt going well, Ganna began to let himself dream of breaking the 57km mark. “After 35 ﷽minutes, I say okay maybe I can do the 57k. But then I start suffering a lot for the position for my balls.”
Ganna described a turning point in the last 10 or 15 minutes when his position became too difficult to hold and his legs started to saturate with pain. From there, Ganna became focused on finishing and beating the record, rather than stretch✅ing to the 57km mark. He set out to “not lose time, because the job is just to arrive, aꦐnd we are doing an amazing job, all together.”
Ganna praised his team repeatedly throughout his post-race interview, and it was certainly more than lip service – the planning and investment in the attempt by the team and Dan Bigham was considerable. Bigham, who held the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:previous record of 55.548km until Ganna’s ride, described his mastermind plan to beat his own record in an 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:interview with Cyclingnews last week.
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Beyond the planning and preparation, the cost of Ganna's bike and equipment alone 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:ran well in excess of €75,000.
With that preparation and investment in mind, Ganna was sceptical about whether one of the current crop of young Grand Tour superstars, from 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonas Vingegaard, would be able to beat his record.
“If they do I’m happy… but I think I hav๊e the best team for trying to do this,” Ganna said. “Maybe if they joined the team they can try.”
Ganna also highlighted how different teams will have very specific priorities which could obstruct such individual goals, where mixing between track and road could prove challenging. “I think Ineos followed well what I wanted to do,” he sai🧸d. “I think this result is not j꧃ust because of my legs or my performance, but is more one effort of Team Ineos.”
Speak♚ing about his plans to ride straight into the UCI Track World Championships after his extreme effort on the Hour record, Ganna said, “I don't know maybe I'm loco, maybe that's just that.”
However, it seemed that for Ganna a World Championship appearance was a mark of gratitude to the team that had done so much to deliver his Hour record. “I needed to say thank you, and I think starting ꧃the Worlds is t🔜he best thank you I can do.”
Peter Stuart has been the 🥂editor of Cyclingnews since March 2022,ജ overseeing editorial output across all of Cyclingnews' digital touchpoints.
Before joining Cyclingnews, Peter was the digital editor of Rouleur magazine. Starting life as a freelance feature writer, with bylines in The Times and The Telegraph, he🐼 first entered cycling journalism in 2012, joining Cyclist magazine as staff writer. Peter has a background as an international rower, representing Great Britain at Under꧒-23 level and at the Junior Rowing World Championships.