Giro D'italia - Inside line - Stage 8 time trial

It's time trial day here at the Giro d'Italia and the riders have got a long and tough stage ahead of them 55km and it's also technically very demanding, we caught up with some of the big hitters for today to get the inside line on how to approach a test such as this. Yeah just go as quick as I possibly can really. I think it's a question of the balance between risk and reward, a lot of the big GC riders they'll always kind of go they'll manage the risk a bit more than say like the specialists, say I was on good form and this was the stage I was going for the win I would be taking corners at a lot higher speeds I'd be kind of hanging it out a bit more. Some guys will take excessive risks but that's why preperations key you need to do the recons you will have needed to have seen it beforehand, ridden it ideally and then sometimes thanks to modern technology with radios in your ears and stuff if your DS behind has done some good recon you can be going into blind corners with the confidence your DS is saying don't worry this is fine so you can go in hanging it out. For me it's not neccesarily the length that does it that's not what does it for me it's more the fact that you don't really find rhythm a static time trial with a lot of it's just about aero position and just sitting still and pushing the power then it's not for me but if it's coming out of corners or coming into corners taking the corners quickly, accelerating and yeah just hard to find the rhythm then it suits me wel and yeah climbing of course also does it for me so today here we'll see. I've only seen the first half of the course and yeah it looks promising but we'll see how I feel also. If you've gone up through the sort of the cycling kind of, those step ups through the different genres if you like you tend to get to the point where you're just a good bike rider and if you're phenomenal off road you know how to pick lines you understand terrain better you understand the surfaces because you're always dealing with different surfaces, wet, dry, dusty, rocky and I think that's where Cadel and Ryder they have that advantage and they're not put off balance immediately when they see that O god it's raining and slippy they then manage the situation differently. The numbers are something that you look if you ask me afterwards to maybe analyse but I don't look at it on a day like this, it's all about sensation if I can feel like I can push harder I try to do it and then if I feel that I need to hold back a little bit to maybe save myself for a hill coming up or something then I, I do that so yeah it's all a sensation. It's something you need to be focused on doing but at the same time not think about it at all even because it's 55km of pure suffering and you need to be going like you said just as fast as you can and just as fast to still be able to make it to the finish line and not blow up or, and not save yourself, not still come to the finish line and have energy left.