Geraint Thomas has outlined his plans for the upcoming 2025 season, which is about to be his remaining 12 months within the professional peloton.
The 38-year-old Welshman will retire on the finish of the season after 18 years of racing at Barloworld and Ineos. Chatting with his teammate Michał Kwiatkowski at pre-season coaching camp, he stated that his 2025 will probably be focussed on stage racing, beginning with the Tour Down Beneath.
“Beginning down underneath, it’s going to be my tenth Tour Down Beneath,” Thomas stated in a ‘behind-the-scenes’ video from Ineos’ pre-season coaching camp in Spain.
“For me, it is the most effective place to begin, you will have a month or 5 weeks down there with constant coaching and good climate – it is supreme.
“Come again, I believe for the time being Algarve then a number of stage races – Tirreno-Adriatico, Catalunya.”
As soon as upon a time, Thomas was a significant spring Classics contender, profitable the E3 Harelbeke and taking high 10s on the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Nevertheless, he will not be returning to the cobbles subsequent April.
“The Classics are simply too loopy for me now, I believe,” he stated “You have to be ready to crash. I am unsure I’ve obtained the minerals for that anymore.”
As an alternative, after taking over quite a few stage races by the spring, Thomas stated that he is hoping to race one remaining Tour de France in what can be his 14th outing on the race he received in 2018.
And in what will be the remaining race of his storied profession, the Tour of Britain could be on the calendar in early September.
“Extra stage races. I would like to do yet one more Tour. Possibly the Tour of Britain to complete all of it off,” Thomas stated.
