Remco Evenepoel cycled outside again on Thursday for the first time since his heavy fall in the Tour of the Basque Country. The Belgian champion posted the result on the cycling platform Strava. “On my way back,” Evenepoel wrote during his journey of almost one hundred kilometers.
Evenepoel crashed heavily three weeks ago in the Tour of the Basque Country. Our compatriot broke his collarbone and shoulder blade, which immediately forced him to cross himself about his ambitions in the Ardennes classics. In the podcast “The Wolfpack Howls” of his team Soudal Quick-Step, the Belgian champion said last week that he “was allowed to train on the rollers again (last) Monday and that training outside had not yet been successful due to the bad weather.”
Evenepoel’s first outdoor ride was a fact on Thursday. In the vicinity of his native Schepdaal, Evenepoel made a trip of 98.75 kilometers, good for two hours and fifty minutes of exercise. At an average of 34.7 kilometers per hour he passed Geraardsbergen, Ninove, Bever and Ledeberg.
