Larry Warbasse (AG2R Citroën) said he is as prepared as he can be to tackle Unbound Gravel 200 as the first gravel race in his 12-year pro road racing career. He also admitted that maybe he was a little crazy to hop on a flight just days after completing the Giro d’Italia to compete at Unbound, one of the hardest gravel races on the planet, 8,500km away in Kansas.
It seemed that making it to Rome in this year’s gruelling Giro wasn’t enough of a challenge for the 32-year-old Michigan native. He had helped teammate Aurélien Paret-Peintre to a victory on stage 4 and was in the queen stage breakaway on the final weekend. With a fifth Giro now under his belt, Warbasse said he was “fit but fatigued” as Unbound Gravel loomed just four days away.
