Janier Acevedo wants to remind the peloton just how well he can climb at the season-opening Tour de San Luis. After wrestling with health problems during his last two years with WorldTour team Cannondale, the Colombian climber has returned to the US-based outfit Jamis in good form and ready to shoot for top results in the event’s two summit finishes - Alto del Amago and Filo Sierras Comechingones.
“I was able to start my preparations well,” Acevedo told Cyclingnews two days before the start of the seven-day race in Argentina. “I was healthy and that was very important for me considering my last two seasons. So while still early in the year, I am feeling good.
“There are two uphill finishes in the race and those are the ones I will target.”
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The Tour de San Luis marks the opening race for many of the best teams in the world. All-rounders like Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and Rafal Majka (Tinkoff) will use the race to test their legs against one another and to set the initial fitness benchmark ahead of bigger goals later in the season at the Giro d’Iatlia and the Tour de France.
Acevedo wants to see how he stacks up against the big-name climbers, head-to-head on the slopes of the stage 4 final climb to Alto del Amago, stage 6 climb to Filo Sierras Comechingones and even on the lesser-but-still-important climb up El Mirador del Potrero on stage 3.
He also wants to finish high up in the overall classification by the time the race finishes in San Luis on January 24. He understands that his Continental-level team, which will include Brayan Sanchez, Sebastian Haedo, Eric Marcotte, Kyle Murphy and Luis Amaran, won’t have the horsepower to really contest the 21km opening team time trial in El Durazno on January 18, but he believes he can claw back some of that lost time in the mountains.
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