Tom Pidcock admits to losing touch in time trial - "I couldn't really get the power out in my TT position"

The final day of the Volta ao Algarve saw Tom Pidcock flaunt his impressive cyclocross skills, although his time trial capabilities have waned since his days as a junior champion, thanks to the demands of various disciplines on his time.

"It was pretty tricky. I couldn't really get the power out in my TT position. It shows I didn't really spend enough time on this bike yet," Pidcock said after the final stage. He continues, “My heart rate was probably 20 beats less than what I was at yesterday on the final climb, so I couldn't get everything out."

Pidcock admitted he has lost his touch, "It was a good experience. Today I think I needed to go through that process." His coach Kurt Bogaerts also thinks the same. "With Tom, we didn't do any focus on the TT yet. Today was a starting point for that, a platform to work on.”

He further added, "It's a discipline where you need to put the effort in. We had a lot of disciplines in the past but not this. You need to get used to the bike. On his road bike, cyclocross bike, and mountain bike, he gets the power out, and now we need to transform the power he can do on those bikes onto the TT bike.”

He is committed to aiding Tom in returning to the top, and given his recent performance, accomplishing this goal should not pose a challenge. "We came here to do a TT and we now know where we are - top 20 in this field is a really good result. You have the world champion Tobias Foss, Filippo Ganna, Stefan Küng, all specialists. Tom can take a lot of motivation from this," concluded Bogaerts.