A month after finishing on the podium of the Giro d'Italia, Mikel Landa is back in serious training. The Giro is in the past and the Tour de France now takes all the attention. Landa is preparing the second part of the season that will see him ride in San Sebastian, Burgos and the Vuelta and he will train in Navacerrada

Landa will be back in action on August 1 in the Clasica San Sebastian-Donostiako Klasikoa where he will return two months after his spectacular Giro. It will be his starting point and he will continue in the Tour of Burgos (4-8 August) and culminate in the Vuelta (August 22-September 13). Then he will do two Italian classics, Milan-Turin and Gran Piemonte on October 1 and 2 respectively as he confirmed to Biciciclismo.

The Basque climber has had a spectacular 2015. He won the stage to Aia in the Tour of the Basque Country (April 10) and went on to dominate the Giro where he won the stages to Aprica and Madonna di Campiglio and was third on the final podium, just behind Contador and his teammate Aru. And only Porte was better than him in the Giro del Trentino where he was second.

After the success in the Giro, he was honored in his hometown of Murgia  and he traveled to Kazakhstan with team leader Alexandre Vinokoruov and Aru. Then he rested and has now resumed training. In July he will spend two weeks in Navacerrada (July 11-25) to get ready for San Sebastian, Burgos and the Vuelta. Burgos will bring him great memories because he took his first victory there in 2011, when he was only 21 years old and last year he was third in the same stage.

In the Vuelta he wants to confirm his performance in the Giro and show that he has the necessary consistency. It is also a race he knows well as he was 69th, 39th and 28th in the three latest editions respectively.