While riders in France and Spain are not allowed to train on the roads due to the coronavirus lockdown and Italian professionals have now agreed to also stay indoors as a sign of respect for their compatriots fighting the spread of Covid-19 coronavirus, Belgium's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oliver Naesen of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:AG2R La Mondiale and his regular trainin🧸g partner Maxim Pirard have clocked up a marathon 365km ride around Flanders.

All the Spring Classics have been postponed or cancelled with most teams tel🌌ling their riders to ease off training but Naesen wanted to go for one big ride. 

"I actually really needed it. If you look at your mobil🍃e phone or watch TV, you only hear or see things about the coronavirus. That's not nice," he told💎 Sporza.

"We c🧜ycled for ⭕12 hours and paused for about 40 minutes. We have been at a bakery 3 times to eat donuts. The intensity was really low, we rode and chatted, we never accelerated after a bend."

Naesen and Pirard left home in Teralfene, just west of Brussels, at 5:30 am in the dark and finished at 6:00pm; with Strava data showing they completed a long loop of Flanders, following the reg♚ional border of East Flanders. The pair averaged 30.4km/h, with Naesen averaging 182 watts. Pirard was a stagiaire with Bahrain-Merida in 2018 and is the current world Gran Fondo champion.

“All energy comes from your body fat, you don't have to eat much. I wasn't hungry yesterday, even last night. During the training I ate 3 Berlin🃏 ball donuts and some gels.🌸 I consumed 8,000 calories, so the mirror test is still okay,” Naesen explained.

"Did I sleep well? Fantastic," Naesen told on Thursday morning. "Like a stone. I even fell asleep in the couch last night. It was a bl꧂issful night."

"My legs definitely feel great. It makes no difference. This was not a crazy achievement. For a long time it was a relaxed ride to empty your head. I wouldn'ꦗt recommend it to my parents, but colle♋agues can definitely try this out."

"Every day is lik♕e a Sunday now, you have to exercise with the them of having fun."

Naesen has emerged as one of Belgium's best Classics riders in recent years. He꧒r finished ♏second to Julian Alaphilippe at last year's Milan-San Remo, was third at Gent-Wevelgem and seventh at the Tour of Flanders.

🐷"It is so strange. Normally this is the period of super focus, and now the fire has gone out. I'm in winter mode, I see myself fattening 🃏day after day. When I heard that the classics were canceled, I immediately decided: Okay, it's now time for some deep-frying.' But I'm 29. This is really not the time for that. I'm in my strongest years."