FRESH PERSPECTIVE FRESH LEGS
Taking stock, reassessing, gaining a new perspective. It’s been a common story this year and Geraint Thomas — the Welsh third of Team Ineos’s trio of Tour de France hitmen — is no different.
“This lockdown period has definitely made me realise that I still love just racing really, and that’s what I want to do,” he told Cycling Weekly from his Monaco home, as he was getting ready to put the finishing touches to his training ahead of the coming season. “Because I enjoy training — I enjoy riding my bike and you know, pushing yourself,” he underlines, “but there comes a point when you’re just like, Oh, I need that competition.”
While most of us would have contented ourselves with that level of personal insight, Thomas has experienced a whole new level of profundity since the end of the last season, having had a baby boy, Max, with his wife Sara in October.
The 34-year-old says becoming a father has freshened his perspective, enabling him to see the
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