Giacomo Nizzolo has yet to mark a date to start his season after being diagnosed with tendinitis at the Trek-Segafredo camp in Mallorca in January. Despite weeks of physical therapy and a return to limited training, the Italian is still recuperating from his injury.
"I am back on the bike," Nizzolo said, according to his team. "I can ride but not much yet, around 2- 2.5 hours a day. I still feel some 'noise', but I cannot really call it pain. I feel that the best way to be back is to ride, building muscle again and improving their flexibility because the muscles around the knee were getting stiff from wanting to protect my knee.
"Right now, I am also working very intensively with a physiotherapist who looks at my body as a whole and is working primarily to get my total body back to functioning normally again. It's like my body still acts as if it must protect the knee, so we have to reset my body's memory. My muscles still think there's a problem; they work like they have to defend themselves from the pain. So my first goal right now is to teach the muscles to function again as they did before."
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Today, Nizzolo was scheduled for a three-hour ride, the longest since his diagnosis, before he will find out if he can increase his training load.
"I really feel the improvement, so I am confident that I am on a good way, even though I know it is still a long way back," he said. "Because first I have to become a normal rider again. With two hours of riding a day, I still cannot say that I am really training."
Because of the reduced training schedule, Nizzolo did not want to set a date on his return to competition. "I want to focus on getting back to my old level and becoming even a better rider."
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