Tom Dumoulin’s 2017 race programme has yet to be confirmed, with both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France options on the Dutchman’s race calendar.
At a team training camp in Spain, the Giant-Alpecin rider sat down with Cyclingnews to discuss the areas of his training and racing that he is working on in order to become a major Grand Tour contender in 2017.
Weight and nutrition
I think that nutrition for me is the main part. I’m still learning what to eat and when. It’s quite a puzzle. It’s not like I can just put together some carbs and some proteins and that’s it. Sometimes it’s not that easy and there are times in a Grand Tour when you have a bad day simply because you didn’t eat well. If I look back to some of my bad days it’s often down to nutrition on the day or nutrition from two days before because my supplies have gone down. It’s a really important part of cycling and something that we’re really working hard on.
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Keeping my time trial powers
It’s December so I can be little lighter than now but at the Vuelta in 2015 I was around 69 kilograms. I’m not sure that I can get down to 68 but we might give it a go and see what happens. Losing weight and climbing will naturally affect my time trialing at some point. So far it’s not been a problem and I won the time trial at the Vuelta and I’ve worked on my weight for a while. It’s maybe affected my prologue success but over the longer distances I can still do well. You’ve seen it with guys like Froome and Wiggins, who have both done exceptional time trials when at top condition at the Tour de France, so we just have to find out the line for me. At some point we might go too far but I hope it’s not next year.
Extra altitude camps
Climbing workouts
The marginal gains
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