If you want to do well in Strade Bianche and your name isn't Tadej Pogačar, then it's definitely a good idea to have done a few one-day races beforehand, and if one of them at least is Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, there are several advantages. That's because Strade and Omloop are both very nervous races, and that extra high tension is something you can practice handling in one race and then put that practice into effect in another.
OK, the terrain is completely different and there's not so much climbing in Omloop. But every time you have an approach to a sector and there's a fight to be in the front, the efforts are exactly the same in both races.
