Enric Mas: "I hope I have the strength in these next two days in the Pyrenees and I can get into the breakaway"

   MADRID, 19 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish rider Enric Mas (Movistar Team) wished this Tuesday to "have strength" and recover "well" in the next two stages of the Pyrenees of the Tour de France, to be able to get "on the run", which was his mistake this Tuesday on the day between Carcassonne and Foix over 178.5 kilometers.

"We have tried, although we had to have been on the break. I have been locked up when it has formed. It is my fault and nobody else's. On the other hand, in Lers we have tried together with the team; it has not gone well, because soon they have moved back, and then in Péguère it should have been further forward", Mas analyzed in statements after the sixteenth stage of the French round to his team collected by Europa Press.

Enric Mas finished the stage in 31st place, after looking for a breakaway on the penultimate ascent, but was unable to keep up with the pace of the favorites on the final pass and arrived 8 minutes and 41 seconds behind the winner of the first Pyrenean stage.

Even so, he pointed out that the sensations this Tuesday were "more or less good". "We are going to keep trying. Hopefully I will have strength in these next two days in the Pyrenees, recover well and be able to get into the breakaway", settled the rider who is eleventh in the general classification of the French round.