Riders put in mammoth virtual rides during coronavirus lockdown
Gesink and De Vreese log 250km and 370km home t🦩rainer sessions

With riders around Europe on lockdown due to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, most of them – if not all – have been logging big miles on their 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:turbo trainers.
Jumbo-Visma's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Robert Gesink has been among them, taking to Zwift and🍬 the platform's fictional Watopia course to get❀ in a on his Tacx Magnum treadmill trainer on Sunday.
The Dutchman did a seven-hour 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:indoor cycling session, comin꧒g just a few days after h🏅is outdoor trainer session with a view at his home in Andorra.
Gesink still has some way to go to match Astana rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Laurens De Vreese, though.
On Friday, the Belgian put in the longest turbo trainer session we've seen yet, logging a giant 370km ride on a virtual version of the Yorkshire Worlds finishing circuit. The 31-year-old spent over 11 hourꦓs on the trainer, in a ride titled the ''.
"Show your fighting spirit Against covid-19," De Vreese wrote on Instagram, showing off his ride data an✤d set-up in p🥀hotos and a video.
Last week, AG2R La Mondiale rider Oliver Naesen rode a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:mammoth 365km around East Flanders, where outdoor riding is still permitted. Lotto Soudal men Thomas De Gendt and Jasper De Buyst put in a real-world 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:300km training ride at the weekend in honour of Milan-San Remo.
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There has also been plenty of other online riding, too. At the weekend, RCS Sport and Garmin 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:organised an online ride of the final 57km of Milan-San Remo.
Several past wi🤪nners, including Vincenzo Nibali and Maurizio F🐷ondriest, took part, as did 2019 Tour of Flanders winner Alberto Bettiol, and former world champion Alessandro Ballan.
Elsewhere, both the Mitchelton-Scott and Israel Start-Up Nation teams have hosted indoor rides so far, with ISN running a virtual 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Stay at Home ride on Zwift featuring André Greipജel and Alex Dowsett on Friday night.
Mitchelton-Scott, meanwhile, are running a full series of online events, named 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:BikeﷺExchange &nda𓂃sh; Where the World Rides. Simon Yates and Annemiek Van Vleu💞ten are among the riders to have taken part so far.
A photo posted by @la𝓀urensdevreese on Mar 21, 2020 at 3:52am PDT
In honor of @Milano_Sanremo @JasperDeBuyst and i did a 300km ride, connecting some of our biggest cities. Too bad we had a 120km headwind from ꦫMons to Antwerpen. pic.twitter.com/taAMtMr4SG
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