With the cycling calendar for the remainder of spring, and likely beyond, up in the air due to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, ride✃rs everywhere are wondering how to plan for an uncer💞tain racing future.

Among them is 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alpecin-Fenix star 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mathieu van der Poel, who had only raced at the Volta ao Algarve before flu 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:counted him out of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and then race🙈 cancellations ruined his March plans.

The Dutchman still has the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Brabantse Pijl, Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne on hisꩲ calendar, but with May's Giro d'Italia already postponed, it's unlikely that 🍰those April races will be run.

"Nobody can say when the next race will be," Van der Poel tol🦹d . "That makes it difficult. What are we training for? Even the Olympics isn't a sure thing anymore.

"As a rider there's nothing you can do about it. So, I try not to get too worked up about it. Those first cancellations in Italy I didn't even think it wꦍas a disaster. I had been ill anyway and needed time.

"But now. The hardest part is – what are we going to train for the next few weeks? To what point are you going to peak? Nobody knows at the moment when we can even start aga👍in."

Van der Poel said he's not 💎giving up on spring yet though, even if the races he's targeting are likely to be postponed. The Tour of Flanders is still standi🌌ng – just about – but with its cancellation looming, he wondered exactly when racing could start again. He said that it would be hard to compete there given the lack of race days, in any case.

"It'd be very punishing if we'd still race there," he said. "But that just it: what will the first race be? Rꦑoubaix? The Ardennes Classics? If that's the case, I'll definitely put everything on it.

"I won't give up spring yet. But it does make it difficult to train. In a way it would be better if they give us clarity as soon as possible and say that t🐎here will be no more spring races. Then we can all start resting now and 💜rebuild towards summer, for example."

Van der Poꩵel added that he'll continue training in the meantime, sayi⛄ng that after his illness he has the motivation to work and build a foundation once more.

"For some riders, motivating themselves will be difficult indeedౠ. In a way I'm still lucky – because of my illness I can use all the training to lay a foun𝄹dation again. That's what I'm going to do the next few days: make hours, train, keep me fit."

"It's all about having to wait and see. That's the most difficult thing, that total uncertainty. The only thing I know is that tomorrow I will sit on my bike and put in 💙the hours. But why? For what? Do you know?"