Circuit 101: PEZ Does Mendrisio!

With the time trial champions crowned, the focus at the world championships has now shifted to the three road races, to be contested this weekend. The Friday of the championship week is officially designated a “rest day”, we decided it would be a good idea to pull on the Capo Custom kit and do a lap or two to see what the course had in-store for the riders and if the roads around Mendrisio really were as tough as everyone had been saying. From the race guide book, the 'stats' for the road course are a little bit daunting. On Sunday, the professional men will set out to cover 19laps of what is a very tough 13.8km circuit, giving a slightly numbing race distance of 262.2km, with a total of 4,600m of climbing. Ouch. Before that,. The women will race 124.2km on Saturday morning and then in the afternoon, the Under 23 men will... [read full story]                    

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