Robin Carpenter has a clear goal for his first World Championships elite road race on Sunday. The 26-year-old American has his eyes on infiltrating the early breakaway as the peloton makes its way through the hot, possibly windswept desert toward the finishing circuits in Doha, Qatar.
Carpenter, who rides for US Continental team Holowesko-Citadel, is no stranger to making the escape. Since arriving at the Hincapie-backed teams in 2013, Carpenter has been a regular feature in breakaways in US races big and small. He told Cyclingnews in an interview before he left for Qatar that he's ready to throw his hat in the ring when the race hits the desert.
"Since it's my first time, I honestly expect to be put in more of a support role, which is fine," Carpenter said. "I think it would be pretty sweet to end up in whatever breakaway there is, to fly the colours for a while and see how far I can make it. I think it would be cool to make it into that early break.
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"Doing senior Worlds will be a big step up for me," he said. "It will be the longest race I've ever done by a healthy margin, and so at that point you have to look for your successes where you can, and to make it into that early move would definitely be one, I think. It would be cool."
"Cool" is not the word of the week so far on Doha, however, as temperatures in the Persian Gulf country have hovered around 100 degrees Fahrenheit and are expected to remain there for the elite men's race on Sunday.
Carpenter, who is originally from Philadelphia but currently lives in San Diego, isn't worried about the heat, however. Before he left for Qatar, the California town near the Mexican border experienced unseasonably warm temperatures that surged past 100.
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