The 20th. Digicell Valentine's Classic will be held this weekend. But it's not your regular classic - this one is a stage race, or a mini tour as they're calling it. President of the Cycling Federation Dion Leslie told us more:..
Dion Leslie, President - Belize Cycling Federation
"This year we are doing it differently. We are having a mini tour, being that we will have two days of events with 3 separate races."
Jules Vasquez
"Do you think having it in a tour format gives you a better preparation, gives the cyclists a better preparation, for the cross country is that? Or is it just marketing?"
Dion Leslie, President - Belize Cycling Federation
"Its preparation. Riding these back-to-back days, put more miles under your legs, prepares you better to see what condition you are in. You have to understand, if you watch the foreigners who come, they are riding every week, sometimes twice during the week they are riding races, so we need to bring our level up to that and we need to be able to compete. We are putting it in the format to prepare our riders to have them better for cross country, because more than anything, we really want to see a Belizean rider wins cross country this year."
The mini tour starts tomorrow morning at 6:30 with a two-mile time trial on Princess Margaret Drive. It culminates in a full out road race on Sunday.
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