Johan Tiedemann Langballe: Gravel put a much greater demands on the rider.

Gravel put a much greater demands on the rider.

Johan Tiedemann Langballe running his first elite season and thus also the first year for Team Virtu Cycling.

As previously Herning CK rider course, he is more familiar to the Grand prix Volkswagen Herning and he looks forward to meeting with the Danish classic.

During my time in HCK I have heard a lot about the race and we drove many of gravel road sections to the training, so I'm really looking forward,

says Langballe thrilled when we meet him for a chat before the race.

I just plucked from the Junior series, so it's the first time I have run the race and is of course very excited about how it will be.

I thought that gravel is fed to run on, it put a much greater demands on the rider, the material and the technique word is less important to be on wheels. The joy of gravel roads he will also need when the 28 km pavé pieces to be forced on an anticipated dry and dusty spring day on the moors.

Grand Prix Volkswagen Herning is notorious for its many gravel road pieces and sometimes fierce crosswind, but also ranking matches mention Langballe as one of the crucial parameter.

Placement in the first third part of the field is extremely important at the entrance to the gravel road sections, including what makes it so hard that location battle every time, you can not just run on wheels and relax a bit , he says clearly and adds the race can be dropped on each of the 15 pieces of gravel way.

As winner of Kuurne-showers Sell-Kuurne JR in 2017 has Johan Tiedemann Langballe shown that he is one of them it would be wise to keep an eye on in the future, though he is well aware that 2018 is a learning year for him

as new plucked junior, I have no intention to win the race in the first try, as it is one of the biggest races in Denmark with lot of prestige, so my job is probably to give a hand and gather experience,

He is currently working with a knee injury as he and the team hopes to be rid of before the start yesterday at the square in Herning Saturday, April 21.