“What Yates did was pretty phenomenal. The speed they went at the last climb was incredible. I did my best-ever hour in terms of power and was seven minutes behind,” Pidcock told the Times.
“The thing is, for me, I’ve never raced up an hour-long climb before. And I’ve never trained for an hour-long effort. So, it’s a big area that I haven’t touched, and, obviously, if I ever want to podium a Grand Tour, I need to get much better at that.”
Is a GC result at a Grand Tour something that would fulfill Pidcock’s road career? “I think if I do manage to ever win a Grand Tour or get on the podium, it would be one of the biggest achievements ever.”
The next bid could come at the Vuelta a Espana, but after the Brit got stuck around the 15th spot in GC for most of the race, maybe it would be a better goal to fully target stages. Or whether the 25-year-old would pick different goals for the summer. But all of that can be decided within the two months until the race starts.
“We have a lot more time. I want to sit down with the team and figure out where the gaps are and what I want to do. At the end of the day, I like having success – winning. If that means just going only for stages and targeting those, so be it,” he admits that the strategy could be different.
