Honestly, if it wouldn’t be the superhyped rivalry between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, I would probably skip Paris-Nice, as did in the recent couple of years. I used to watch more Tirreno-Adriatico, but even this race has less and less place among my thoughts.
Even during those years, some 10-12 years ago, when I was eager to write about as many races as possible, somehow struggled to maintain my interest in both events held almost simultaneously at the same time in every March. No wonder, that this is the part of the season I usually face with the fact:
I don’t like week-long races.
Moreover, since my interest is focusing more and more on the cultural-historical context of road cycling races, I stick more and more to the few events with rich history and huge impact on everyday life (or vica versa, those cycling races on which events outside of the cycling worlds – f. e. wars – have a big impact). Which basically means the one-day races and the grand tours.
Only in those cases, like this one in this year, when the race fits into a bigger picture, a bigger story (“the season-long narrative of rivalry”) I’m willing to shake up my usual time schedule of reading, watching, reviewing, analyzing and sometimes writing historical fiction, and find more time to follow even a week-long race.
But it’s not me, who is the protagonist of this post, but you.
You know my approach to this type of road cycling races, now I would like to know what’s your opinion.
Do you like this form of road cycling races?
Do you follow them diligently?
Occasionally?
Which one is your favourite?
What do you think about them at all?
It would be nice to learn more about the opinion of the readers of PelotonTales blog.
So, according to on which social media you’re active and (probably) follow PelotonTales, you can enter the discussion
on Twitter:
Now that stage 6 of #parisnice is cancelled and stage 5 of #tirrenoadriatico is shortened, you might have a little more time to answer the qestion of the weekemd on @peloton_tales blog.#cycling #roadcycling
— Anita Pethö (@anita_petho) March 10, 2023
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