After 15 years as a pro and 25 years of racing, Frank Schleck (Trek-Segafredo) has only a handful of race days left before he walks away from the sport that has occupied his time since adolescence. As his retirement date following Il Lombardia approaches, the 36-year-old from Luxembourg joked that the real heavy lifting is about to start.
"I have two kids at home," he said last week before he started the Tour of Alberta in Canada. "They are costing a lot of energy and I think it's time to give something back to them. I'm going to miss the pro business of cycling, because at home there are always things to do because you have to take care of the kids. You have to do the laundry, you have to do dishes, and once you're with the team there's nothing to do. So I think it's going to be a big, big change."
Schleck arrived in Canada last week to help teammate Bauke Mollema defend his 2015 title at the five-day race in Alberta. Mollema just missed that defence, finishing one second behind overall winner Robin Carpenter (Holowsko-Citadel), but Schleck, an avid outdoorsman, was able to enjoy his first trip to the Western Canadian province nonetheless.
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"I know about Canada as a big huge country, a lovely country," he said at the time. "I'm a guy who is an outdoor freak, so I like to go out into nature fishing and hunting. I'm all over that, and I hear a lot about Canada of course."
Schleck didn't get to try out any of the blue-ribbon trout streams in Alberta, but he was able to do a little sightseeing as the team got ready for the race.
"On Monday and Tuesday we had a nice ride," he said. "We drove to Mountain View from here and we rode to the Rocky Mountains, which was very, very beautiful riding there.
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