In the weeks leading up to the 100th edition of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia BMC Racing's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tejay van Garderen has kept a low profile.

Media requests have been politely declined and social media turned down to a minimum as the former white jersey at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France prepares for his first tilt at the corsa rosa.

This year's preparation has been all about finding the equilibrium between🤪 training and family life – a balance thಞat has kept van Garderen away from the media glare and instead focused on his power numbers and results.

"I just wanted to try and take a different approach," he told Cyclingnews after securing sixth in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Romandie on Sunday.

"I was with my family for a month in Nice. I didn't do any recon, I didn't do any altitude, I just hired a motor pacer and I brought my wife and two daughters to Nice. The weather was perfect a🥃nd I was surrounded by a lot of love. It was a relaxe💮d and calm atmosphere and I could just focus on my work. I just said 'lets forget about the media, lets forget about social media and lets focus on the things that matter.' That's my condition and my family. I think that's the best thing that I could have done heading into the Giro."

Back in December, at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:BMC Racing's training camp van Garderen had said so♛mething similar. The plan back then had been to dial back on the complications, those marginal gains, and focus on the simple things in life - training and enjoying the bike. After 🧜a bruising couple of seasons van Garderen certainly needed to freshen up.

"People find a formu🍬la and they think that they can plug it into each individual and I think I've found a method that works for me," he added.

After a steady start to the year, van G✅arderen has begun to find his form. According to his team boss Jim Ochowicz, those numbers are steadily creeping up and van Garderen is generating a level of consistency needed with the Giro just days away. Fifth in Catalunya was followed by Romandie, where he fell on the first day but regrouped to help Richie Porte seal the win, before taking third in the final time trial.

"It was a pity about the crash in 🔯the prologue but I just got on with the task in hand. We had the victory with Ric🎀hie, which is amazing, and I've been showing good form, that I'm strong, and hopefully I can carry that form into the Giro."

In the past van Garderen has been willing, sometimes too willing, to share his race ambitions. In 2015, after finishing second to Chris Froome at the Criterium du Dauphine, he told Cyclingnews that he was heading to the Tour de France to chal෴lenge for yellow. A disastrous day on the road to Pra-Loup and a DNF, only made those wounds eve𒅌n deeper.

The 2016 season saw an༒other poor showing at the Tour de France and in the winter it was decided that the Giro would form as the main goal for the following se꧂ason. The media intensity at the Giro might not be as suffocating as it is at the Tour but the competition is has high as ever.

"I'm not𓆉 going to put a number ꩵon it. Of course the goal is GC, I'm not going there to hunt stages or take in the Italian scenery. I want to go for GC.

"Nairo Quintana is the 𝔉favourite and aside from him I don't think th✃at I need to be afraid of anyone. Where that lands me on GC, I don't know. If you put a number on it then it sets you up for failure. So if I say podium, podium, podium, and finish fourth, then that's failure. I have in my mind what I want to do but I just want to keep that to myself."

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