Jesús Herrada continues with the Spanish feast in the Vuelta

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  • Victory for the runner from Cuenca, the second he achieved in the race, after surviving the escape from the chase of the peloton.

  • This Saturday the mountain returns.

The narrow-gauge railway reaches Cistierna, a 100% Leonese town, and from here it is possible to move throughout the north of Spain. The neighbors are proud of this transport and even prepare a pot, rich in flavor and calories, which they baptize with the name of the railway. Until Cistern The escapees arrive with the surrendered town, Leonese and Spanish flags, immense shouting, which captivates Jesús Herrada, who moves his particular train, to achieve victory. And to the sprint.

In the blink of an eye Spanish cycling has woken up and as it gets used to winning stages this will be non-stop. Because with the changed foot, in Cistierna, the neighbors would only have been happy to explain how great it was for them that the Vuelta passed through the town, a pity that a foreigner won, as always happened in the race. Bitter happiness and much more if it had happened on the day that the favorites of the race took a break thinking about the two mountain stages that have been programmed this weekend in Asturias.

But here he was, and on the run, a young man from the Basin of Jose Luis Peralesspecifically from Mota del Cuervo, where there are windmills and good cheese, where it was seen a few years ago Don Quixoteand where two brothers Josephthe oldest, and Jesus, the little one, although he is already 32 years old, decided to become professional cyclists. Jesus grew up to be a leader and Joseph to help him as a gregarious. He spent the couple at Movistar before signing for the French Cofidis. And that’s when Jesus he became a stage hunter. He forgot to look at the general classifications and always looked for a specific stage to mark in red, for example on the way to the Cistierna delrailway, wedged between the Cantabrian and Asturian mountains, and where it was known that all the hopefuls for the final victory, from the leader Remco Evenepoel, they would take the day as if it were recovery and they would not even care if there was a sprint.

stubborn

But the escapees, among them branded, they got stubborn: why don’t they catch us? And as much as behind the teams with sprinters believed that there could be an unexpected gift in Leon lands, ahead they decided that if they had escaped it was not to make the cousin, but to risk victory among themselves.

“After three kilometers I saw that they didn’t catch us so I decided to save my strength to fight for the stage victory”. branded He squeezed and became a sprinter to explode with joy, cry and hug his brother and teammate when he crossed the finish line. He had already won another stage in 2019 and had even worn the red leader’s jersey for a few days a year earlier.

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This Saturday his legs will hurt in Asturias because the effort to withstand the pressure of the peloton is brutal and not only muscle but head and with the director giving instructions for the ‘penguin’, because if five runners, as in Cistierna, have that play victory among them, once they have confirmed that they are not going to be caught, then the enemy is at home, nobody can trust anyone, there are no betrayals, because only one member of the quintet will win glory and the four losers will not come out in the papers.

That’s why I cried branded, because I knew that he had been the protagonist, the one who was going to get on the podium and could toast to victory despite the fact that this Saturday the suffering will be terrible for an Asturias that is far from flat. Everything started with Soler and with branded, he continued. Do not stop the party.



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