Waiting for the runners to return to the rounds on the roads around the world in the official competition, Diego Uriarte (Barañain, 2001) took the opportunity to look back and analyze How is this 2024 season? which, without a doubt, he will remember forever for a very special reason: it became his first campaign as a professional cyclist.
“It became a what a great year“This is the moment every cyclist dreams of since he started riding a bike,” he said in an interview given for his team, Kern Pharma Team. The Navarrese entered the structure years agostarting as a youth at the Ermitagaña Cycling Club to move to the Lizarte Team, which later became the Graduate Team For him, it is “a dream that” even jumping to the professionals “is the pinnacle.”
The fact of being at Kern Pharma for some time means that know “almost everything” his colleagues and staff and this, as he explained, facilitated “the integration and relationship strengthening on the personal and professional side.
For what it does its role within the structure Navarra, this season he worked on the “ability enter the leaks“as well as”good placement of teammates within the peloton before the start of a mountain pass or a sprint”, two racing situations where feeling “very comfortable”.
The most obvious change noticed in the change of category, is “the middle level of the platoon” which professionals describe as “extremely high in any terrain and situation.” Despite this, he still has fond memories “first races in Mallorca” because he has been waiting for the moment to debut for a long time. Also, highlight how good it feels at the end of the Paris-Tours despite “conditions that day with rain and mud.”
During the season he also had to live through some difficult moments, such as the case of injury sustained after the Tour of Taiwan. Despite the uncertainty, the team gave him the “confidence and calmness” needed to return and after being out of work for two weeks, he was able to return to activity, first “doing roller riding and walking in mountains.” A month and a half laterThanks to a “little preseason” he did, he got back on the bike ahead of schedule.
Using the look at 2025Uriarte has several goals in mind. “I want to take another step in my competition performance,” he said. His plan is to follow the trend of “growing gradually” until he becomes a “skilled cyclist for the team” who can be “used in any situation” in addition to “to stand in some attractive race”.
Source: La Verdad
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