Rohan Dennis said on Sunday that he’s not sure how his body will react to the high-elevation racing this week at the USA Pro Challenge in Colorado, but he won’t have to wait long to find out.
“Tomorrow will be the first test, so I’ll know pretty soon, probably at least midway through tomorrow’s stage, if not on stage 2, which is going to be the start of the GC battle,” he said. “You’ll either see me get dropped and lose 10-20 minutes or I’ll be close to the front.”
The last time Dennis raced at this altitude two years ago in Utah and Colorado, he suffered a lot.
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“And I think that’s probably going to happen again,” he said.
Dennis (BMC) finished 77th overall at the 2013 USA Pro Challenge and then went on to win the Tour of Alberta weeks later. The 25-year-old Australian, who this year won the opening time trial at the Tour de France and wore yellow for a day, said he’s taking the Colorado race one day at a time, hoping the week he spent in Steamboat Springs prior to Sunday will help him adjust to the thin air.
“I’ve been here for just over a week now,” he said. “Today was probably the best I’ve felt on the bike. My heart rate is slowly, slowly coming down. It hasn’t quite dropped below 100 beats per minute on the downhills. It’s still probably a five-to-10 beats increase.
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