Thread by @MatteoJorg

So that’s a wrap on my best spring ever🌼

Ppl keep asking how I made such a big step so I thought I would put it in a little thread ⬇️

First off these things don’t happen overnight. Not even in a year. The biggest thing I learned years ago from @GroupRideKing was that as long as you maintain consistency and get the simple things right, every ride or race, no matter how well or badly perceived at the time, will… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Each season I have repeated this cycle. 2021 I went extremely deep in the spring period and had an absolutely horrendous Giro where I barely made it to the finish every day with the last riders. In 2022 the Tour de France served as a giant stimulus that took me until December to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

That TDF gave me confidence I was very close though. So for 2023 I made big goals. They were especially challenging bc I wanted to try and flip back and forth between GC to classics and back again 🦎

I can say now that I’ve spent every penny of my salary so far this year on my own performance. Between solo camps, tt material, nutrition, massage, and motorpacing; it all made me better and compounded on itself 🧱

In January I spent almost the entire month alone in an altitude hotel. I bought custom tt extensions with the help and testing of @ivanvelasco 💨 I hired a nutritionist and have weighed and logged every gram of food I’ve eaten since December to make sure I’m always at race weight… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

It’s all paid off.

A special thanks to my coach @PatxiVila 🤝He towed the line between racing and recovery in a way I’ve never experienced before. His ability to push my body towards explosivity for some races and then back to efficiency for others was truly impressive. Plus dealing with my… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

And last but far from least my amazing @movistarteam Ⓜ️ Every rider who sacrificed their own results to sit in the wind for me, you are my boys ❤️ I can’t tag you all but you know who you are.

Now to rest and reflect for a few days before I do it all again this summer 👋 Thread finito ciao 🔚