It’s two and a half hours into a five-hour training ride and Remco Evenepoel is out of the saddle and spinning his legs up one of the fierce ascents that pepper the landscape on the outskirts of Calpe, Spain.
After countless training rides in this neck of the woods, Soudal-Quickstep sports director Klaas Lodewyck has become used to the view – both of the scenery along the picturesque Spanish coastline and of his rider as he follows in the team car for yet another training expedition.
