Richie Porte's Training Secret

Richie 'Fish' Porte has a training secret and, it's a bit different to how most pro cyclists approach their training for races like the Tour de France.

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When you think about swimming and cycling, you'll probably think about triathlon. And, in many cases, you'd be right. But, for Tour de France contender and recent Tour Down Under winner Richie Porte, swimming is an essential part of his training. Richie uses swimming as an alternative to hours on the bike for his recovery rides, and when recovering from illness and injury.

It's something that we hadn't really used during our racing careers so we were very interested to hear Richie's side of the story and how he uses another sport to improve his racing ability.

Let us know if you use swimming as part of your training down in the comments.

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