Enric Mas: “I hope to be the Enric of old in the Vuelta”

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Enrique Moreleader of Movistar in the Vuelta that starts this Friday in Utrecht, he hopes to “become the Enric of old” and show that the confidence problems that affected him on the Tour have been overcome.

With the help of the team and especially Alejandro Valverde, the Spaniard arrived motivated, although there were doubts about his performance.

I reset after the Tour and now I’m ready to face every day at the Vuelta. Let’s see how I respond. I arrived more or less fine, with a small margin compared to the Tour, but the Vuelta is long. I hope it goes well, the personal situation has not happened yet, there is not much time to recover, but I am motivated,” he said.

After suffering an anxiety crisis in the Tour de France, confessing his fear of descentsEnric Mas had Covid, which forced him into a period of rest and recovery to recover the sensations that a team leader should have.

“During the first days at home with Covid, I doubted whether I could run the Vuelta or not, but I decided to go, to see how it would go. At home they taught me that life has good and bad moments, and in sports you go through moments when you are at your best and then you are blocked. The Tour just ended, let’s see if everything changes,” he explained.

“With the Tour still in mind, the Balearic cyclist admitted that he still has “enough to be the Enric of old”, he pointed out.

I say what I feel. I struggled on the Tour. Let’s see how we get out of the initial time trial and after 2 stages on Dutch roads we don’t know much about. I would have liked to have had more time to recover, I have worked with all the professionals who made it possible, there is little time but there is also a disconnection”, he explained. The Vuelta is my home race, I am always comfortable. , it is a good place to go back to being the Enric of before, to trust me again”, he explained.

In the matter of adding points to avoid a possible drop in the category, the head of Movistar is confident that in the end there will be no trouble.

We have to compete like we have all our lives. If the general is indisputable, we will go in stages, without looking at the stallometer. We will get points without any problem, we cannot think whether we will go down or not, we have to enjoy the race and get points,” he concluded.

Source: La Verdad

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