“Today the pace was crazy to be honest. Even to stay in the peloton was unbelievably hard, so today to be honest I really feel my legs. I was just trying to hang on and stay as long as possible, it was a super crazy pace. Before the intermediate sprint we were still together and I said ‘Ok, I need to sprint now’ but my legs were already burning. So I’m super happy that the break went. Today I think was the toughest day that we had in the last 10 days. For me to be honest climbing is not a big problem. I always chose the best possible gruppetto. Here today there were already quite a lot of guys dropped and they (the team) said it’s not the best to drop now. I just kept going and I dropped on the start of the first hard climb. Then I just rode my bike so easily and saved the watts.”
