Wout van Aert already back at altitude with pre-Suisse gravel training
Belgian tackles Alpine gravel ro🐬ads shortly after Jumbo-Visma Sierra Nevada altitude training camp

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout van Aert is not slowing down in his preparations for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France. Just a few days after a long training camp up in the Sierra Nevad🎶a, the Belgian has travelled to Switzerland for another round at altitude.
After impressing at the Critérium du Dauphiné in recent years, Van Aert will switch to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Suisse this year 𒐪as his pre-Tour race outing, the eight-stage race taking place the week after the Dauphiné and starting on June 11.
The Belgian has travelled to Switzerlan▨d early, clocking a ride on his gravel bike in the Alps on Thursday af꧂ternoon.
According to the file named 'Oops forgot to bring my road bike' he uploaded to hiಌs account, he started and ♌finished the ride part-way up the Bernina Pass, at an altitude of 2,000 metres above sea level.
Van Aert started his ride by descending into the valley and then climbing high into the ski slops above 🥃St Moritz, reaching 2,500 metres, before descending ✱and riding the gravel tracks along the shores of Lake Silvaplana.
He then continued the off-road pursuit with a short trip up and down the Roseg valley, before making his way up the Bernina Pass and loopi✃ng back to Diavolezza on the Swiss-Italian border, where he's staying.
The ride took place in the vicinity of the ha🌠rdest stages of this year's Tour de Suisse, just a stone's throw from the crucial queen stage that finishes in La Punt.
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Van Aert only returned home from the Sierra Nevada on May 28, having stayed in the Spani✅sh mountain range with his Tour de France-bound teammates since June 9, racking up plenty of kilometres up to 3000 metres of altitude.
Van Aert has been a restless presence this year. Barely a week after Paris-Roubaix, which ended with a heartbreaking puncture, he used his post-spring time off for a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:multi-day bikepacking trip.
According to Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad, Van Aert is in Switzerland alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wilco Kelderman and a couple 🐟of support staff from Jumbo-Visma, opting to top-up on altitude already given there's no time after the Tour de Suisse. Jonas Vingegaard and the Dauphiné riders, meanwhile, will likely complete a short fina𒁃l pre-Tour camp after that race.
After racing the🎃 Tour de Suisse, which features two time trials as well as some high mountains, Van Aert may elect to race the time trial at the Belgian national championships on June 22, the weekend bef🅷ore the start of the Tour de France in the Basque Country.
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