As well as riding Paris-Roubaix this year, Ryan Mullen of Cannondale has a number of other major races on his agenda.
By Brian Canty
Ryan Mullen has revealed his programme for the coming months with the standout race being an appointment with Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, April 10th.
The Irish national time-trial champion and Cannondale neo-pro is among the best up and coming talents in the sport at the moment.
His learning will be significantly hastened by being in the start-list for a race dubbed ‘the hell of the north’.
Mullen has already ridden three of the four races on the Majorca Challenge Series and he’ll pin on race numbers this weekend for the two-day Haut Var (2.1) in France.
From there he’ll go to Belgium to compete in the three days of West Flanders; from March 4th to 6th.
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He could possibly leave that race early, or miss it completely, as he’s a reserve for Paris-Nice; March 6th to 13th.
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He is also on reserve for two one-day events, E3 Harelbeke and Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen.
If he doesn’t race there he will go to De Panne from March 29th to 31st, the Scheldeprijs on April 6th followed by the aforementioned Paris-Roubaix on Sunday April 10th.
He is also on the reserve list for the Tour of Flanders on Sunday March 3rd and Brabantse Pijl, on Wednesday, April 13th.
May will see him put in a big block of training at the end of which he’ll race the Tour of Belgium, a one-day in Berlin on Sunday, June 5th, and the ZLM Tour in the Netherlands; Wednesday June 15th to Sunday June 19th.
He’ll return to Ireland for the national championships at the end of June after which the second half of his season will be planned.
The Tour de France starts the following week and depending on who is selected for that, and how he does in the months before that point, Mullen's programme from the beginning of July will become clearer.
However, given he is in his first year at this level and is still only 21-years-old he is unlikely to ride the Tour.
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