Richie Porte travelled to the Giro del Trentino late on Monday afternoon, preferring to let directeur sportif Dario Cioni head out on his bike and study the key climbs of stage 2 of the four-day race in the Italian mountains.
Cioni, a professional between 2000 and 2011, finished fourth overall in the 2004 Giro d'Italia and will call the shots from the Team Sky car next month as Porte targets the first Grand Tour of the 2015 season.
Porte has recently returned to his European base in Monaco after a block of important altitude training on Teide with teammates Chris Froome, Nicolas Roche, Leopold Konig and Wout Poels. The four-day Giro del Trentino will be an important stepping-stone on the way to the start of the Giro d'Italia in San Remo on May 9. It will be the final race for the Tasmanian, the Anglo-Italian directeur sportif and the riders and staff at Team Sky who will spend most of May with Porte in Italy as he pursues the maglia rosa.
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"I think it's going to be good to see where my form is at," Porte said on the Team Sky website, regarding his return to racing at the Giro del Trentino.
"I'm not sure exactly how I'll come out of altitude. Sometimes you're flying and other times it takes a little bit to get going. But I'm really looking forward to my last hit out before the Giro.
"I think this season I'm back to where I need to be. Obviously Paris-Nice and the Volta a Catalunya went well. Being able to win those big races is good for your confidence. I'm trying not to get caught up in the pressure of it and just trying to look at it as another race. But I think for me it’s my big opportunity to go and lead a big race for the team. And whatever happens, happens."
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