They may be among the best bike riders in the world, but the Katusha squad got absolutely hopelessly lost when doing some training for the team time trial at the Vuelta tomorrow.
They will go to the start of the 2016 Vuelta tomorrow with hopes of stage wins and more.
But the lads from Katusha are not going to win any prizes for orienteering anytime soon.
Limbering up for the team time trial that will begin the last Grand Tour of the year, the riders from the Russian team took a few wrong turns and got lost.
But they didn't just get lost a little bit; no sir.
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They strayed so far from where they should have been that they ended up on a dirt track off road and bumped into a man walking his dogs.
There was a highway suspended high above their heads so a tarmac surface can't have been too far away.
And at least they will have gotten their bikes filthy dirty and their tyres cut up before the opening 27.8km TT into Castrelo de Mino.
Creating as much work as possible for the mechanics on the eve of a Grand Tour is a dirty auld job, but somebody has to do it!
Lost in Spain; at least they took it well
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