Visma-Lease a Bike have provided a positive update on Wout van Aert‘s condition, stating that he is on track for a possible start to his road season at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad later this month.
The Belgian star is currently training at altitude in Spain’s Sierra Nevada mountains, as he continues to recover from fracturing his ankle at a cyclo-cross race back in January. However, the biggest thorn in Van Aert’s side hasn’t been his ankle, but the weather, with cold temperatures and snow restricting him to training on the rollers until today.
Van Aert jokingly captioned his Thursday Strava ride as “I can’t really feel the Spanish vibe yet, so decided to ride in Switzerland”, but today he was back outdoors, riding alongside Davide Piganzoli on a four-hour, 127-kilometre training ride.
But as he put it at their media day just two weeks after, “if I was a runner or anything else, I would be out for months, but hopefully, as a cyclist, it will be good enough.”
Niermann is eyeing a peak at the Monuments for Van Aert, of course, with Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders still eluding him up to this point. It’s a big unknown if he’ll make it to the shape required to challenge Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), but he’s heading in the right direction.
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