We're into the first week of the Giro d'Italia and we're fast approaching Naples, where I took my last ever road-racing win in the 2022 edition of the race. There's a strong leader at the top of the GC classification and the overall contenders are all waiting for the tougher stages, so for much of the rest of the peloton the big question is: what are my chances in the breakaways?
To tell the truth, though, I never was keen on getting into breaks in the first week of a Grand Tour. I only did if I was going for something like the mountains classification or if there was a really, really good chance of success. Which, normally, there wasn't.
