After a creditable 15th place in Sunday’s mountain time trial Ian Boswell (Team Sky) has his mind set on making it into breaks during the final week of the Giro d’Italia.
The American briefly set the fastest time over the 10.8 kilometre course - a surprise given that he had not targeted the stage. Having lost his team leader, Mikel Landa, through illness in the second week of the race, Boswell’s prime objective shifted from team support to seeking opportunities.
“The end is in sight now,” he told Cyclingnews after a turbo session on Monday’s rest-day.
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“With the time trial, I wasn’t really targeting it. It was a relaxed approach so even in the warm up I was talking with my teammate Phil Deignan on the rollers. It was a casual warm up and then I just got out there on the road. I didn’t really know the course, although it wasn’t like I had to brake or anything.”
The slopes on the Alpe di Siusi gave Boswell the opportunity to test himself, without the distractions a bunch race can provide. There was just one climb and no fights for position, leaving him with the narrow, but important, focus of posting the best possible time.
It wasn’t all plain sailing, however. “Then I had Dario Cioni and Dave Brailsford behind me and they had a megaphone. It wasn’t working but they thought it was, so they were telling me I had fast splits but I had no idea what they were saying. So I just started out riding at a decent pace, and when I reached the climb I decided to push on.”
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