{"id":369609,"date":"2025-12-26T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/369609\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:11:07","slug":"italian-champions-christmas-training-ritual-offers-early-hint-of-2026-ambitions-its-a-special-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/369609\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian champion\u2019s Christmas training ritual offers early hint of 2026 ambitions: \u201cIt\u2019s a special tradition\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Day still begins on the bike for <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/filippo-conca\" title=\"Filippo Conca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Filippo Conca<\/a>. While many riders fully switch off, the Italian champion sticks to a routine he has made his own.\u201cAt Christmas I always train, it\u2019s a special tradition,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuttobiciweb.it\/article\/2025\/12\/24\/1765985621\/ciclismo-filippo-conca-natale-lago-di-como-girod-italia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Conca told TuttoBiciWeb<\/a>. \u201cIn the morning I go out on the bike and ride for three hours or so around the lake. It\u2019s beautiful because there\u2019s nobody around, there\u2019s no traffic, and it\u2019s also the perfect opportunity to really enjoy the place where I live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The quiet roads around Lake Como allow Conca to train uninterrupted before the festive day begins properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas Day still begins on the bike for Filippo Conca. While many riders fully switch off, the Italian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,158219,43199,82,130310],"class_list":{"0":"post-369609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-filippo-conca","12":"tag-giro-ditalia","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-team-jayco-alula"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}