Giant-Alpecin cyclo-cross star Lars van der Haar is currently racing in his last road event of the season at the six-day Tour of Alberta before heading south to kick off the 2015-16 UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup calendar at CrossVegas in Nevada on September 16.
"My goals here in Alberta, mostly, are to get the last bits ready for Vegas, to gain some form and see where I’m standing," Van der Haar told Cyclingnews at the start of the second stage in the County of Grande Prairie.
"I don’t really have a big goal to do well here in the GC but there may be a chance for me to do a good result in a stage. I would also like to try to be in a breakaway for a day, just to try and test my engine a little bit."
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Van der Haar officially joined Giant-Alpecin’s WorldTour team at the start of this season, after racing for the team’s development squad the previous year. He has enjoyed the change of racing at the top level at races like Scheldeprijs, Bayern Rundfahrt, World Ports Classic, Tour de Luxembourg, Ster ZLM, Clasica San Sebatian and the Arctic Race of Norway before heading overseas to Alberta.
"I’ve always done road cycling, but the big difference this year is that I was doing all races that I have never done before, and at a bit of a higher level. I really liked it. I’m on a team that has a big goal at every race and to be a part of that has been really nice."
Now that Van der Haar’s road racing obligations are winding down for the year, he is turning his attention to cyclo-cross, and specifically, a victory in two weeks time at CrossVegas, a race held on a thick-grass field at the Desert Breeze Soccer Complex.
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