Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) shared new details about his Hour Record attempt.

Ganna recently set an hour record of 56.792 kilometers at the Grenchen Velodrome in Switzerland.

"I didn't think about anything for the first 30 minutes, I thought about how I could do big things for the next 15 minutes, and for the last 15 minutes I wanted to fall off to end the agony," Ganna told El País in an interview during the Ineos Grenadiers' training camp in Nice. He told the newspaper El País.

"I wanted to finish the race right there, puncture or not. I just couldn't go on."

Ganna, however, was in no doubt about the effort and the pressure he felt, although he did give a graphic account to the Spanish media of the level of stress he undergoes before a track event.

"Two hours before the race starts my hands get cold, I sweat, and then they get cold again. You start crying and your face goes pale."

"The most stressful part is during the 50 seconds when you look at the countdown board. So I try to hide that stress with my glasses."

Like Bradley Wiggins in 2015 and Chris Boardman, who broke Eddy Merckx's record by 10 meters in 2000, Ganna insisted that if he were to set the hour record again, he would only do so as "the last race of my career."

Asked by El País if he would one day win the Tour like Wiggins, Ganna replied, "No." He was equally candid in denying the possibility that winning the overall Tour would be part of his future ambitions.

Ganna was unlucky in his Tour de France debut this year, failing to win any of the time trials, especially the opening TT, where he suffered a puncture from a piece of glass. He was particularly unlucky in the opening TT when a shard of glass caused a puncture.

"Being in a good mental state helps when you are not in good shape. At that point, 70% of the race is decided by your head," Ganna said.

"I was at '70%' for 21 days in the Tour. My only goal was to survive and get to Paris. I helped where I could, but I suffered a lot in this year's Tour."

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Ganna's intense relationship with racing is also reflected in his expression that when he is in good shape and when he is not, he feels radically different on the bike.

On days when he was in good shape, he never dreaded the end of a training session or a race, but on days when he was not in good shape, "if I fall or have some problem and can't pedal the way I want to, I hate the bike. I really hate it."