With drone footage of Nicolas Roche training in the wilds of Co Wicklow, this video advert for his Giro Diary is actually very cool; well worth a look.

Video Nicolas Roche Giro Diary Irish Independent

Nicolas Roche will be back in action at the Giro d'Italia today, this time on Italian soil. The race has had a rest day for travelling after the opening three stages in Israel.

And after a TT and two sprinters' stages, the race is about to head into the mountains.

As has been the case for many years now, Nicolas Roche is doing his Giro Diary. It's published in the Irish Independent every day.

The newspaper took advantage of the fact he was in Ireland for a few weeks before the Giro. It went and shot this video of him.

It's a promo advert and something we wouldn't normally publish. But this is actually quite cool and it's worth a view.

Read @nicholasroche diary every day during the Giro d'Italia in the Irish Independent pic.twitter.com/CZpOylGHMI

— Independent Sport (@IndoSport) May 2, 2018

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He's already had his first diaries published. And in his dispatches he spoke about Rohan Dennis getting the Giro leader's jersey.

Dennis is of course a team mate of Roche's at BMC Racing. And the squad has said it really wants to defend the maglia rosa.

Roche said with Dennis just two seconds off the lead after the stage 1 TT, the team had to try to get him into the pink jersey.

He added trying to close the race down to lead him out for the intermediate sprint on stage 2 was a risk. But it had worked.

Roche's Giro TT

He also said he was unhappy with his own TT. Furthermore, Roche suggested his lack of racing for over a month may have been a factor.

"When I found out a few days ago that I was off third last today, in between Chris Froome and former world time trial champion Tony Martin, my cousin Eric reassured me that at least if I wasn't going well the cameras would probably be focused on the other two anyway," he wrote in his post TT diary.

"To be honest, I was grateful for that as I didn't have a great day. I felt like throwing up after about 500m. And eventually lost a minute and 14 seconds to Dumoulin to finish 116th.

"I don't know if it was the shock of racing again after five weeks. But whatever the reason as Ed Sheeran might say, my legs didn't work like they used to before."