Thursday at the office worked out pretty well for Giant-Alpecin’s Chad Haga, who experienced one of those rare days in professional cycling when everything just seems to come together at the right time.
Haga started the day hoping to conserve some energy in his bid to survive his first Giro d’Italia, but instead the 26-year-old Texan made it into a successful breakaway that launched him into his best result since signing with the Dutch team in 2014.
“Well, I started the stage feeling bad, just really tired,” he told Cyclingnews after the stage 18 finish in Verbania.
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“My legs kind of woke up after half an hour, so I decided that I’d give it a shot, but only at these points that the directors had pointed out beforehand, and the second one worked,” he said. “So I was just kind of like, ‘OK, here I am.’”
The 170km stage from Melide to Verbania had a profile made for a breakaway, but it took 44km for the 12-rider group to finally form.
Haga joined eventual stage winner Philippe Gilbert (BMC), Amael Moinard (BMC), Davide Villella (Cannondale-Garmin), Matteo Busato (SouthEast), Pieter Weening (Orica-GreenEdge), Sylvain Chavanel (IAM), David De La Cruz (Etixx-QuickStep), Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (Bardiani-CSF), Rinaldo Nocentini (AG2r La Mondiale), Maxim Belkov (Katusha) and Kanstantsin Siutsou (Team Sky) in the escape.
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