Former world champion Annemiek van Grooten continued to ride more than 32,000 km in training and racing in 2020 The Dutch rider, who will join the Movistar team in 2021, logged more than 1,229 hours of riding on social media at the end of the year He was.

Compared to the men's records on Strava, Van Vleuten trained as much or more than the WorldTour pros. Tomas de Gendt (Lotto Soudal), who was running a marathon during the coronavirus blockade, recorded 33,091.4 km on Strava, while Milan-San Remo winner Wout Van Aert (Jumbo Visma) ran 31,775.9 km and covered 386.5 km.

Van Vleuten climbed 429,547 meters, or 48.5 times the height of Mount Everest, and consumed 700,143 kilocalories, the equivalent of 307 donuts, 235 cheese pizzas, or 1,243 Big Macs.

During a season shortened by the coronavirus epidemic, the distance raced was about 2,400 km, but Van Vleuten made the most of his hard work and raced from Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in February to the three consecutive Basque 1.1 rank races in July and August 1 He won five straight races until Strade Bianche, finishing second to compatriot Anna van der Breggen at the World Championships nine days later.

Van Vleuten's hard training schedule was already evident in January: as the most-distance rider in January, she logged 2,636 km in 18 rides. She spent so many hours because, for the second year in a row, she did a training camp with the Mitchelton-Scott men's team.

"Did I need that many kilometers? The answer is no. Our race length is a maximum of 160 kilometers, and races shorter than that make it difficult ...... to make a difference in the finals." Recovery and overall fitness levels are not as important to winning a race. However, the harder the race, the more you can benefit from a higher general fitness level by doing more volume on the bike"