{"id":687754,"date":"2026-05-23T03:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:39:12","slug":"i-dont-feel-i-need-to-tom-pidcock-says-of-skipping-training-on-the-mtb-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687754\/","title":{"rendered":"“I don’t feel I need to” Tom Pidcock says of skipping training on the mtb bike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Pidcock is returning to the world of mountain bike and, before racing even starts, getting everyone riled up with his usual blunt interview style.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never ride my mountain bike much before I race because I don\u2019t feel I need to,\u201d the Q36.5 Pinarello rider told cameras on Friday.<\/p>\n

And, well, he has a point. He\u2019s rolled in cold to win World Cups, world championships and has a couple Olympic gold medals to his name. He probably trained a bit more for those.<\/p>\n

To be fair, Pidcock did continue that thought, saying, \u201cThis time I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve done it enough. Every year we only do a few mountain bike races and every time we have to figure it all out again. There was a bit of that this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gunnar Holmgren follows Tom Pidcock in Nove Mesto in 2024. Photo: Bartek Wolinski \/ Red Bull Content Pool<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to jump back into the deep end with perhaps not quite enough preparation, might as well do it at a familiar venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love this place, especially when the sun\u2019s shining like this,\u201d Pidcock says of Nove Mesto. \u201cThe tracks always great and I have\u201d Pidcock added after a pause, \u201cGood memories here.\u201d<\/p>\n

That would be the four elite XCO World Cup wins. And the XCC wins. The Czech venue isn\u2019t just familiar, it\u2019s been quite friendly to Pidcock in the past. If he can land another XCO win this weekend, he\u2019ll match Nino Schurter\u2019s venue record of five elite World Cup wins.<\/p>\n

Schurter, now in some form of retirement, will be racing at BC Bike Race on Vancouver Island<\/a> when the start gun goes off in Nove Mesto.<\/p>\n

\"Milan-San<\/a>Pidcock pushed Pogacar to the line at 2026 Milan-San Remo. Photo: Sirotti<\/p>\n

If Pidcock can win, it will also help turn around a roller coaster of a spring for the British rider. Referencing his mixed fortunes on pavement, going tire-t0-tire with Tadej Pogacar one weekend and crashing off the side of a road at 80 km\/h not long after that, Pidcock says he\u2019s hoping the \u201cchange of scenery\u201d and, just maybe, a good result will be the morale boost he needs going into altitude training before the Tour de France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Pidcock is returning to the world of mountain bike and, before racing even starts, getting everyone riled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[21898,49,48,1179,635,1700,62722,247949,247950,82,43201,78832],"class_list":["post-687754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cross-country","tag-cycling","tag-mtb-features","tag-mtb-news","tag-nove-mesto","tag-nove-mesto-na-morave","tag-sports","tag-tom-pidcock","tag-xco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687754","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=687754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}