Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Adam Hansen Blog: Cairns to Oman via Qatar

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From my last post on the Adam Hansen Blog from the Tour Down Under to here in Oman a lot has happened.

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Oman is quite different to home in so many ways.

I traveled From Australia, then to Cairns for one night at my mother’s place, then to my home in the Czech Republic for a nice short week, enjoying the lovely snow – I love it.

I did some good training there before heading to Belgium for the team’s presentation.

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It was nice to see our train being featured in ProCycling magazine – that’s me pulling.

It’s been great to catch up with the team but damn it was cold out there. I do like the cold when I’m at home, warm clothes and warm house. But when you’re at a hotel and locked inside and can’t do any cross training, it’s hard.

Greg H and I mag’ed it indoor, just to make sure we got some type of training done…

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A peloton of a different style.

After presentations we headed to Qatar for some training and hard racing. It’s always good to survive that race in one piece.

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Qatar gave us some hard racing and great training.
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Palm trees and smooth roads in Qatar.

Now Oman, and we have André here – and another stage win in the bag!

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André is so strong right now.
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Training before the race was good.
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Team talk in the desert.

We did some nice warm hours, and on the first day we won a super sprint.

It wasn’t so easy though, but we had five guys left with 1km to go and we all did a great job and delivered André in first place!

More soon,

Adam.

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Greg and I have been winding each other up just a bit on Twitter! Here’s my sneak photo of him practising his autograph!

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