Dowsett, who set the current record last month, has indicated that he could have gone further during his attempt, leaving the door open for a second run, should Wiggins raise the bar this weekend.
On Wednesday, Wiggins will carry out another training sessi🌜on, riding at a race pace of 55kph. He has used Tony Rominger's 55.291 km record from 1994 has a benchmark during his training and during Tuesday's session open to꧂ the media he set constant laps at 16.2 seconds, well within record setting pace.
Asked if he was in the be▨st track form of his career, Wiggins replied: "If I was to get up and do a 4 kilometre pursuit I reckon I could get close to the world record in the right conditions or certainly go close to the PB I used to do."
Part of Wiggins' improvement on the track, he says, is down to a newfound maturity. He cut his teeth on the track as a junior and won multiple world titles and Olympi♍c medals before ♎focusing on the road.
"I can put myself through harder efforts on the track than I used to be able to do when I was coming off the road and onto the track. Compared to what we were doing 🎉on the road for the Tour de France it's easy money.
"It's that perception of what you thought was hard is now a walk in the park. We're doing 55km race pace tomorrow, and we'd have never done that four days out."
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“I think that having the freedom of not being in a professional team any more has helped a lot because I’ve not had to 🐟juggle my race programme. I did the Tour de Yorkshire and that was it. There hasn’t been any hurdles as such and it’s been a straight run. There have been no hiccups.
"It's certainly not ea✱sy. I really enjoy doing this type of thing, from this time triallng background and just how quantifiable it is. I find that easy mentally."
Daniel Benson was the Editor in Chief at gxiaowu.com between 2008 and 2022. Based in the UK, he joined the Cyclingnews team in 2008 as the site's first UK-based Managing Editor. In that time, he reported on over a dozen editions of the Tour de France, several World Championships, the Tou🌱r Down Under, Spring Classics, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With the help of the excellent editorial team, he ran the coverage on Cyclingnews and has interviewed leading fi🙈gures in the sport including UCI Presidents and Tour de France winners.
