Primavera Race Preview: On Saturday morning the longest and most beautiful one-day Classic of the season rolls out of Milan and heads for the Mediterranean City of Sanremo. There isn't a rider who would not love to win the 'Primavera' and it's a race in which the sprinters and rouleurs have a chance. Ed Hood has the low-down on 'La Classicissima'.

Best of PEZ: If you ever get the chance to chase one of the spring's Monuments - whether it be Italy's Milano-Sanremo, Flanders's Ronde van Vlaanderen, France’s, scratch that, Flanders's Paris-Roubaix, or Wallonia's Liege-Bastogne-Liege - do yourself a favor: find a person who lives for that race, a person that looks forward to the next edition of the race the minute it ends each year. The opportunity to be taken behind the scenes and shown the race from the eyes of a local will change how you…

This Saturday I have a meeting, a sort of rendez-vous coming back every year. It’s not just to chase a race, but something else. It’s a sort of life chasing through years, and people and facts and ghosts. With each year passing, the chase becomes more difficult. This Saturday it’s the Primavera day.