{"id":206449,"date":"2025-06-23T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T01:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206449\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T01:10:11","slug":"variation-is-also-important-in-a-career-every-now-and-then-benoot-reveals-why-he-is-training-separately-from-vingegaard-and-visma-ahead-of-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206449\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVariation is also important in a career every now and then\u201d \u2013 Benoot reveals why he is training separately from Vingegaard and Visma ahead of Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Benoot isn\u2019t taking a shortcut. His foundation was built
\nwith a brutal four-week altitude camp in Sierra Nevada, matching the volume of
\nriders like Otto Vergaerde and Lidl-Trek\u2019s Jasper Stuyven. But unlike his
\nteammates now at Tignes, Benoot is leaning into variation. \u201cI have the feeling
\nthat a new stimulus every now and then is also just good,\u201d he said. \u201cVariation
\nis also important in a career every now and then, both physically and
\nmentally.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mental angle matters. As a father of two young children,
\nBenoot opted to combine elite training with family time, even bringing his
\nfamily to Spain for the final week of Sierra Nevada. He spoke candidly about
\nthe decision: \u201cI was able to train very well on the Sierra Nevada and my family
\nalso came over for the fourth week, so that was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is also important for Benoot\u2019s teammate Jonas
\nVingegaard, who regularly adapts his training schedule and racing program in
\norder to spend as little time away from his family as possible.<\/p>\n

His current Tour de Suisse programme isn\u2019t just for race
\nrhythm; it fills a practical gap. \u201cBecause you go a bit longer (at altitude),
\nyou can also build up more slowly,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd I trained a bit harder
\nin the fourth week, because I realized that I don’t have that training period
\nafter the Tour of Switzerland anymore. Which I would normally have after the
\nDauphin\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Benoot, the shift isn\u2019t guesswork. It\u2019s rooted in past
\nexperience. \u201cI followed the same approach in 2019 and I rode a pretty good
\nTour, so I believe in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Benoot<\/p>\n

Benoot has ridden every Tour since 2017<\/p>\n

Benoot has almost solely ridden the classics in the spring,
\nand then the Tour throughout his career. He has never ridden the Giro, and only
\nonce the Vuelta, all the way back in 2018. Along the way he has won races like
\nStrade Bianche, and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, but never a Tour stage.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also keeping a realistic eye on the broader Tour
\npicture. Watching Visma\u2019s Dauphin\u00e9 squad from afar, he was both impressed and
\nreflective, especially considering the level of Tadej Pogacar. \u201cIt was
\nimpressive again, how fast they ride,\u201d he said of the time trial. But he
\nacknowledged recent setbacks: \u201cWe would have liked to see it differently in the
\nlast two days. On the other hand, the Tour is still relatively far away and we
\njust have to keep doing what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benoot will return to Belgium after the Tour de Suisse,
\nracing the national championships instead of seeking more altitude. It\u2019s
\nanother deviation from the typical Tour prep playbook, but one that reflects a
\nmore mature understanding of what he needs. \u201cIf you want to be good one week
\nearlier, you also have to start training again one week earlier,\u201d he reasoned.
\n\u201cEverything is then a bit more glued together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Benoot isn\u2019t taking a shortcut. His foundation was built with a brutal four-week altitude camp in Sierra…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-206449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114730016726197872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}