Giro d’Italia: Chris Anker Sorensen of Team Saxo Bank Takes Stage Win

Across the pond, Team Saxo Bank’s Chris Anker Sorenson won the mountain stage to Terminillo at the Giro d’Italia, after recovering from a broken collar bone just 7 weeks ago. Team performance manager Bobby Julich spoke with Dirk Friel at the Tour of California about how Chris used TrainingPeaks and WKO+ to help him make this miraculous recovery.

“I’ve been working really closely with Chris, monitoring him closely on TrainingPeaks and WKO+ software,” said Bobby. “He broke his collarbone in the last stage of the Vuelta a Cataluna, he ended up finishing the stage but he definitely broke his collarbone so he had to take 5 or 6 days completely off the bike… he had the injury right as he was coming onto a major peak, so he was going to take a break anyway, but it really shows how you can monitor a rider even during a period like that, get into their head, monitor their data… he only lost about 5% of his condition over that period, and when I was able to point that out to him it really improved his morale.”

Listen to the full interview below, and stay tuned for more race files, interviews, and videos this week!

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