'I want to do justice to the jersey this year': A week in the life of national cyclo-cross champion Thomas Mein

The Wiv-SunGod rider talks us through a busy week as he kicks off his road racing season

Thomas Mein on the podium
(Image credit: SW Pix)

Want to know how the best riders in the world train? For each article in this long-running MY WEEK IN TRAINING series from Cycling Weekly's print edition, we sit down with an elite rider who talks us through a recent week of training in granular detail. This time it's the turn of reigning British cyclo-cross champion Thomas Mein (Wiv-SunGod)...

Since breaking through on the Belgian cyclocross circuit as a teenager in 2016, Thomas Mein has consolidated his position as one of the UK’s very best cross riders – comfortably winning this year’s Nationals in Skipton. The 23-year-old Tynesider is no slouch on the road, either, and took top honours at the opening round of this year’s Tour Series in Guisborough at the beginning of May. That win came at the start of the busy week he talks us through in detail below. 

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