{"id":209141,"date":"2025-06-24T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209141\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:41:09","slug":"it-was-just-a-step-up-in-level-more-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209141\/","title":{"rendered":"It was just a step up in level \u2013 more professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jonas-vingegaard\" title=\"Jonas Vingegaard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonas Vingegaard<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> preparations are well underway at altitude, as the Dane searches for improvements ahead of his quest to reclaim the Maillot Jaune next month. Vingegaard&#8217;s young teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tijmen-graat\" title=\"Tijmen Graat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tijmen Graat<\/a> recently joined the two-time Tour winner at altitude and it&#8217;s fair to say that the experience has left a lasting impression on the 22-year-old Dutchman.\u201cI followed my own pace and programme now and then, but overall, it was a fantastic experience. Was it tough? Definitely \u2013 haha!\u201d Graat laughs in conversation with In de Leiderstrui, detailing his awe at the level shown by his teammates during the first part of a four-week altitude training camp in the Sierra Nevada. \u201cI went to Tignes last year, but <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tiesj-benoot\" title=\"Tiesj Benoot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiesj Benoot<\/a> told me this time it was my first real altitude camp. It was just a step up in level \u2013 more professional. I\u2019ve learned a great deal and come out of it a better rider.\u201dOne thing that stood out in particular for Graat was the intense professionalism of <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/team-visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Team Visma | Lease a Bike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team Visma <\/a>| Lease a Bike during the camp. \u201cYou notice it in all sorts of ways,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;A nutritionist on site, the structure of the training sessions, everything is that bit more exacting. It definitely makes you stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Vingegaard&#8216;s Tour de France preparations are well underway at altitude, as the Dane searches for improvements ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209141","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\/114735800934431276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209141","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=209141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}