Campenaerts targeting WorldTour-level time trial wins in 2019
15 November 2018 04:44
Reigning Belgian and European time trial champion Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Soudal) will continue to concentrate on time trial victories next season, but says that he also wants to try his hand at getting away in more breakaways. Since taking the bronze medal in the elite men's time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria, in September – behind Australia's Rohan Dennis and Dutchman Tom Dumoulin – Campenaerts has also made clear his intention to try to break Bradley Wiggins' Hour Record of 54.526km, which was set in London in 2015. Just three days after the Worlds TT, Campenaerts was at the velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland, to make an all-out effort over half an hour – rather than the full hour – and recorded an average speed of 54.8kph, with the last four laps at 60 kph "to see what was left in the tank".ADVERTISEMENT Clearly, riding that pace for half an hour is somewhat different to the extra effort required for a full-blown attempt on the record, which is why Campenaerts is dedicating the first two months of 2019 to a training camp that will, he hopes, get him up to speed. He revealed last month that the camp was likely to be in Namibia – which Het Nieuwsblad reports is set to run from January 2-March 4 – ahead of an April attempt on the Hour Record at the high-altitude velodrome in Aguascalientes, in Mexico. "I know from experience that training camps in Tenerife can be boring. You sit on a mountain for two months, and time can go by very slowly. Hence my choice to go to Namibia," he told HLN.be in October. "You need a good and stable climate to train a lot, which Namibia is perfect for."
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