Ahead of the Giro Donne and Tour de France Femme, the boss strikes a balance between "training and relaxing".

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Ahead of the Giro Donne and Tour de France Femme, the boss strikes a balance between "training and relaxing".

Marianne Vos finalized her form for the most important race block of the season, targeting the Dutch Road Championships, Giro d'Italia Donnay, and Tour de France Femme.

Vos was kept out of racing by COVID-19 before her spring target, the Paris-Roubaix Femme; she attended a training camp from May 10-19 and returned to racing at the one-day Winnendal Classic, but has not raced since May 20. She has not raced since May 20.

She recently completed a high-altitude training camp in the Sierra Nevada and was preparing for her upcoming goals, starting with the Dutch Road Championships in VAM-Berg on Saturday, followed by the Giro d'Italia Donnay (June 30-July 10) and Tour de France Femme (July 24-31) The team was preparing for the following.

"Bye-bye, Pradolano. Time to leave the mountains, go home and get ready, after 3 weeks of high altitude training and aiming for the right balance of relaxation, the final countdown to a beautiful race begins," Voss posted on Instagram. Next: nationals RR on June 25, Giro on June 30, TdF on July 24...excited."

Vos is a former five-time national road race champion but has not won a title since 2011. This year's race will be held on a 123-km route that will finish in VAM-Berg.

She will then head to the Giro d'Italia Donne, where she will compete for a stage win.

The Italian event will begin on June 30 in Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, and after a rest day on July 3, the race will move from Sardinia to the mainland for stage 4 in Cesena.

The route then heads north, passing through Emilia-Romagna, Lombardia, Trentino-Alto Adige, and Veneto.

The most recent event in the Tour de France is the Tour de France Femme, which takes place two weeks later. The opening stage takes place on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, with Vos winning the first edition of La Course in 2014 and Pau in 2019.

"La Course has been very special every year to be a part of the Tour de France after my first win on the Champs-Elysées," she said in an interview on Youtube's "Femmes du Tour" (opens in new tab). I also knew there was space to grow." Now, the Tour de France has evolved from a one-day race to an eight-day race and then to a Grand Tour.

"To be honest, when I was younger I never thought about being part of the Tour de France, I was cheering on the side of the road. Now, being part of the Tour de France is the first time I've been part of anything else."

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The Tour de France Femme covers 1,029 km and includes two punture stages, a gravel section, four flat stages, and a mountain stage before finishing on the summit of La Planche des Belle Fils.

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