Roberto Heras Hard Quotations

We knew it would be hard today, more so with the rain, ... There's still another week to go, so we can't celebrate yet.

There's still the stage to Lagos and that will be the key stage, because it's a hard climb and there you can't just follow the wheel.

It's a hard course and it's not tailored for the specialists because it has a lot of hills. It can make a lot of differences if you're strong. I know the route well because I have ridden a lot in the area, including training and in Setmana Catalana.

It's an important stage with a very demanding and hard route.

If he doesn't yield, it's possible that we'll have a repeat of yesterday in Cerler, although Sastre said that he misunderstands both Mancebo and me. But if Menchov bends, the race will be much more aggressive and everyone will go hard without holding back.

The key has been the time trial in Lloret, where the first part favoured me and there were no differences, but in the second, Menchov extracted time. Then, he defended itself very well in the mountains, though these climbs were not excessively hard and a strong guy can't be dropped.