{"id":635632,"date":"2026-06-12T22:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635632\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:42:11","slug":"i-really-didnt-know-what-i-could-do-former-visma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635632\/","title":{"rendered":"“I really didn\u2019t know what I could do” – Former Visma"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n“I was in pretty good shape in the Figueira Classic, and also in the Algarve,” he said on the team’s website<\/a>. “I kept getting better as the race went on. On the final day, I finished fifth, and I felt good.”Gloag suffers virus infection<\/p>\n

However, the Faun-Ardeche and Faun Drome classice two weeks later didn’t go to plan. Gloag didn’t feel right in Ardeche but felt even worse in the following day’s Faun Drome Classic as it quickly became clear that he had a virus. He and the team decided to return to their Seiss base and manage the recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Saturday, I was feeling not great, but not terrible. Then on the Sunday, I was really bad and ended up stopping with 50 kilometres to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI had a virus, and then some post-viral fatigue. The team managed it well, they were really supportive. Lorenz, and the medical team in Switzerland, have been really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, with a slow rehabilitation and deterioration of his recovery, it proved a frustrating two months for the Briton. He opened up on the uncertainty and the lack of control in his recovery as particularly challenging.<\/p>\n

Frustrating rehabilitation\u00a0<\/p>\n

He explains: \u201cThe uncertainty is always hard. We didn\u2019t really know what to do, because we didn\u2019t really know what was wrong. I love racing. I love riding my bike. This is what I do, this is my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a few weeks, I really didn\u2019t know what I could do. That\u2019s mentally quite challenging, when you don\u2019t have a rehab plan or a timeline of when the illness will go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things did improve, however, and he made a return in mid-May. He rode Rund um K\u00f6ln on May 17th: \u201cI was really happy to be back with the team, and to help my teammates a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

After another four weeks training and re-finding his pre-virus level, Gloag GP Gippingen on June 14th, but hopes it’s just the beginning for him as he focuses on competing in the finale this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really hope to be a valuable rider for the team from now until the end of the season. I want to be at a consistent level, so that I can compete in the finals of races, and for more than two days. That\u2019s the big thing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I was in pretty good shape in the Figueira Classic, and also in the Algarve,” he said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,36242,123946,107852,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","tag-thomas-gloag","tag-tudor-pro-cycling-team","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}