Enric Mas spent barely a month after withdrawing from the Tour de France gripped by panic on the descents with the smile proven at first of the Tour in Utrecht.
Enric Mas spent barely a month after withdrawing from the Tour de France gripped by panic on the descents with the smile proven at first of the Tour in Utrecht. His personal angle, colleagues like Alejandro Valverde and the assistance of a psychologist and an knowledgeable in descents led to a really complicated scenario.
A complete story of overcoming remodeled the Spanish bicycle owner in report time, who completed off the 2022 season with victories and attempting one on one towards Tadej Pogacar himself. A bicycle owner renewed after a course of that the TVE journalist Josué Elena tells intimately within the documentary he indicators entitled "El clic, reboot of a champion": the story of how Enric Mas overcame his fears.
The creator of the documentary, who lived "un situ" your complete technique of the Mas disaster, goes again to the eighteenth stage of Hautacam of the 2022 Tour, the place a complete technique of worry emerges within the type of "forgiveness", of attempting on the a part of of the bicycle owner to justify a efficiency that he didn't count on. A misery name that got here to fruition that day after shedding 7 minutes on the end line and dropping to eleventh place total.
However he was sincere that day: "Because the fall in Dauphiné I really feel an inside worry on the descents," he mentioned then. Later, in Mallorca and earlier than the TVE cameras, he recalled that "each descent was an ordeal. I do not keep in mind something about that Tour."
Sure, Juan Carlos Escámez, his masseur at Movistar, remembers it, who assures that "Mas went down the ports like a trailer, completely blocked, with out even with the ability to comply with a colleague", a standpoint shared by Alejandro Valverde, who additionally went via a trance just like that of his then classmate.
"It occurred to me in 2012, I had a foul time, I used to be additionally scared going downhill, and with the automotive, on the highways, I might get dizzy, I could not drive due to my psychological block. After I noticed Enric on the Tour I knew that he The identical factor occurred to me. As I skilled it, I used to be capable of advise him", explains Valverde, who sought the assistance of a psychologist first after which a psychiatrist.
Enric Mas, 3 instances second within the Vuelta, the final one in 2022, tells within the documentary the turning level to unravel his drawback. The bicycle owner went to his city, Artá, surrounded himself along with his household and mates and forgot in regards to the bike for a number of days. There have been 28 days left for the beginning of the Vuelta. A time trial started.
With the help of his entourage, together with the director of Movistar Eusebio Unzué, Mas put himself within the fingers of a psychologist, Jaume Mas, "a boy from Mallorca who's an knowledgeable in sports activities psychology with whom I shared a desk at college and institute and of whom he had good references", says Mas within the documentary.
Jaume instantly marked with Enric the strategy to comply with: "You needed to detect the ideas that you simply had in your head, normalize the scenario and alter your conduct", a scheduled course of.
One other key step for the restoration of Enric Mas was the connection with Óscar Saiz, ex-biker, sports activities coach and knowledgeable in downhills of any kind of biking. "You may get out of the pothole in 4 days," he assures the TVE digital camera. "However it's one factor to swim and fairly one other to drift," he warns.
"Enric contacted me in a second of hassle, he had nervousness, the issue was critical, however it could possibly be solved. The runner had misplaced confidence because of the falls," explains Óscar Saiz, who surprises by assuring that "the issue might be solved in 4 and 6 days".
Stated and completed, with easy descent strategies, Mas underwent "a contemporary begin", with routines extra typical of those that begin using a motorcycle and never of an elite athlete." I needed to begin from scratch, however from zero, zero" says Enric Mas.
"From hell to tranquility", could possibly be one other title for the documentary recorded this winter between Sierra Nevada, Mallorca and Barcelona, "The press, restart of a champion", concludes with the happiness of Enric Mas on the bicycle. He was not solely second within the Vuelta, he gained the Giro de Emilia, however he was second in Il Lombardía in a duel with Pogacar.
A narrative that speaks of hysteria, of invisible enemies, of honesty, of overcoming. How psychological well being, additionally in an elite athlete, can situation every thing.
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