Chad Haga's off-season got off to a rough start. The 29-year-old American, who just renewed for years five and six with Team Sunweb, underwent septoplasty and turbunate reduction surgery that he had been putting off since recovering from injuries suffered in training before the 2016 season.
After last season, Haga got married and went on his honeymoon. This year, he's laid up at home fighting cabin fever and limiting his exercise to "searching for my phone amongst the blankets." It doesn't sound fun, but it's part of a year Haga said he'd repeat again in a heartbeat.
"If I could ever repeat this year again, I would sign up for that immediately," Haga told Cyclingnews by phone from Fort Collins, Colorado, where he is recovering by binge-watching movies and TV series that he’s missed while on the road.
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"It was a perfect year," Haga added, emphasizing his point.
Haga's fourth year with Team Sunweb included his best-ever result on the WorldTour and a spot on the Giro d'Italia roster that helped Tom Dumoulin take the overall win. The celebration in Milan must have seemed surreal to Haga, who admitted that three years previously, when he was suffering in his first Giro and second Grand Tour, he never would have imagined sharing the final podium with a teammate in the maglia rosa.
"The 2015 Giro was the hardest bike race I've ever done, and to think just a couple years on I'd be helping Tom win that race is pretty crazy," he said.
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