Tweets of the week: Training rest day special with Annemiek van Vleuten, Elinor Barker and Marianne Vos

Time for another round of the best tweets and Instagram posts from the last seven days, this week with a training rest day theme.

This week we have Marianne Vos taking an unusual transport as she recovers from surgery, Annemiek van Vleuten not resting at all, and Geraint Thomas’s enviable coffee set up.

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Check out our picks of the best from cycling social media:

1. What kind of bike is that Marianne?!

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Just over two weeks after surgery and the recovery is going well. On Tenerife now catching some sun and happy to do a bit of alternative 'training' during the recovery process. Walks on the island and great to have another way to exercise with this eye-catching ElliptiGO. Thanks @elliptigobenelux & Cremers Sport giving me the opportunity to go out on the road and work on my fitness in this recovery period. #RideForMore #outsideisfree #happycamper #LivForward

A post shared by Marianne Vos (@mariannevosofficial) on Feb 3, 2020 at 11:56am PST

2. Team GB have found a new marginal gain

New to this motorpacing thing..are we doing it right?? pic.twitter.com/Bk8i9OFiVB

— Elinor Barker (@elinorbarker) February 4, 2020

3. How exactly is this a rest day?

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Restdays like this… Time to explore!

A post shared by Annemiek van Vleuten (@annemiekvanvleuten) on Feb 6, 2020 at 8:32pm PST

4. When you’re a pro rider, it’s the little things

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Cycle biking today. @heraldsuntour is pretty fun, short stages, punchy nature of racing and a short af convoy if you’re trying to get back to the bunch after a pee 😳 📸 @bettiniphoto

A post shared by Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) on Feb 5, 2020 at 2:59am PST

5. Gaimon is making big moves across all sports

Proud to announce that I’ve joined the Chicago Cubs pic.twitter.com/pMvZItOihl

— Phil Gaimon (@philgaimon) February 7, 2020

6. Noble’s reputation precedes her

"The only thing I knew about you before I met you was that you crashed out Marianne Vos." — my boyfriend

— Ellen Noble (@ellenlikesbikes) February 7, 2020

7. Everyone gets the athlete treatment at Trek

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Even @treksegafredo staff get time in the boots after a hard days work at the altitude camp 😂

A post shared by Toms Skujiņš (@tomashuuns) on Feb 6, 2020 at 9:56am PST

8. An insight into getting older from Dr Hutch

Seriously, the single best thing about being an old bike racer is not having to race bikes any more.

— Michael Hutchinson (@Doctor_Hutch) February 5, 2020

9. Thomas has a dream coffee set up

Jet lag you might have won the battle, but you won’t win the war… ☕️ pic.twitter.com/8O07FDk361

— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) February 6, 2020

10. Finally, a rest day we can get on board with

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I'll get in trouble for sharing trade secrets 🤫… but tomorrow we engage our revolutionary rest day protocol (first pioneered by Jonny Wale) ° It starts with a lie in till breakfast, then you get back to bed for a nap. This is followed by lunch time and a sleep, before you fit in one more snack (coconut lolly) and a nap before bed time. If you're waking hours are longer than your sleeping hours, you've fucked it ° #JonnyWaleCoachingDotCom #ADayInTheLife #RestDayProtocol #NapAndASleep #AdaptationDay #7to10wGained

A post shared by John Archibald (@jjzarchibald) on Feb 4, 2020 at 8:00am PST

We’ll be back next week with more tweets of the week.