The 2015 season so far has held mixed fortunes for Alex Dowsett. The 26-year-old has broken the UCI Hour Record, won his first overall stage race at Bayern-Rundfahrt, and regained his national time trial title. However, he has also suffered a broken collarbone, an injury that had a knock-on effect on preparations for the Tour de France, which he was forced to abandon on his debut despite working his socks off to secure selection.
Just over a week on, Dowsett finds himself at the Tour de Pologne, for which he was a last-minute addition to Movistar’s roster, and is looking ahead to the opportunities that await in the latter portion of the season.
He is set to compete on home soil at the Tour of Britain in September, though doesn’t seem overly enthusiastic about the eight-stage HC race.
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“There’s no time trial this year and there’s quite a substantial mountaintop finish,” Dowsett told Cyclingnews in CzÄ™stochowa, Poland, referring to stage five’s finish atop Hartside Fell in Cumbria.
“The main targets, and they are subject to change, will be the world team time trial championships and world individual time trial championships.”
Here in Poland there is a great opportunity to rack up another WorldTour win as the race concludes with a flat 25-kilometre time trial. Dowsett has noted “a big absence of the real big boys of the time trial world,” and is quietly confident, despite expecting competition from Vasil Kiryienka and Michal Kwiatkowski.
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