Annemiek van Fruten has recovered from a broken wrist and will soon be back racing, but it won't be at the Dutch Road Championships, where the 39-year-old will miss her chance to win the blue, white and red jersey of national road race champion for the first time in 15 years.

"I'm really back in training now, and that also means there will be another competition soon. In doing so, I have decided not to compete in the Dutch National Championships."

"That is for two reasons. Because I want to be optimally prepared and to go on to the Giro and the Tour de France in the best possible way.

Van Vleuten, who won the national road race title in 2012 and four national time trial titles, noted that the course of the June 25 race will not play to her strengths. That is especially important given that she is the only Dutch Movistar rider who will be racing alone.

"If [the Dutch National Championships] had been held in South Limburg, I would have come back for that," she said. But now that the course is a little easier than last year and the VAMs are less frequent in the mountains, I want to focus on my main goal."

Van Vleuten, who broke her wrist in a training accident in late April, has not raced since winning Liege-Bastogne-Liege earlier that month. The first race on her site calendar is the Giro d'Italia Donnay, which starts on June 30 and runs through July 10.

"My goal is to try to win my class in both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.

For Van Vleuten, a two-time winner of the Giro d'Italia Donne, the Tour de France Women will be held from July 24 to July 31 with a total of eight stages, making this his first year to aim for both the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France, which have not been held for a long time.

Van Vleuten said that while she is focused on winning her third overall at the Giro and taking the yellow pink jersey at the Tour de France, her mind is still on one day of racing.

"The difficult thing about multi-day events is that there are so many 'negative goals,'" Van Vleuten wrote. In the eight days of the Tour de France, "you have nothing to gain in the first six days, only things to lose. That means staying out of trouble and preserving your fitness. You can't simply fly if you are aiming for a place."

"As I said before, I can and will run in the classifications, but my heart wants to fly like Mathieu Van Der Pol. That won't change in the Giro. Even in the Giro you have to stay out of trouble in the first few days.