Early in the week, Evan Huffman (Rally Cycling) had high expectations and pointed to Friday's time trial in Big Bear as his primary objective at the Amgen Tour of California.
"To be honest I think I can win," Huffman said on Monday. "That'd be good. I'd be pretty happy with a top five, but you know in a time trial you go as fast as you can, and either way I'm going to go as fast as I can and hope for the best."
Huffman, the under-23 US national champion against the clock back in 2012, had several good time trial results in 2016 despite significantly changing his position that spring. Huffman's 2016 results included fifth at Nationals and fifth at the Tour of Alberta. Huffman started this year off strongly with a win at win at the Tour of the Gila in April.
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"I've been riding that same position we changed quite a bit ever since," Huffman said. "I think that has been one of the big reasons I've started time trialing really good again this year, is having the same position to train on over the winter."
Rally Cycling spends a portion of the team camp each year dialing in riders to their positions and equipment. Rally brings in Hed Cycling's Chief of Products Christopher 'Dino' Edin to work with riders on their positions. The training camp sessions include time evaluating rider positions on the trainer, video during 10km efforts and, if needed, wind tunnel testing.
Rally Cycling director Eric Wohlberg pointed to the attention to detail that will help Huffman compete in a WorldTour field.
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