Five things to do now the Giro d'Italia has ended

Relive the best bits

This year's Giro d'Italia will go down as one of the best Grand Tours in years, with any on of four riders still having a shot at glory going into the final time trial.

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Surely the best thing to do is to go into denial that the Giro has ended at all, and trawl the TV listings and internet for clips from the race and replays of stages (OK, maybe give some of those dull early sprint stages a miss) creating a never-ending Giro just for yourself.

Watch other bike racing

Unfortunately we now have to endure the awful prospect of a few days without bike racing, but come Friday and it all kicks off again with the first ever Hammer Series, a three-day team event ending in a mass team time trial pursuit that will be streamed live on social media.

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However if you're a bit more of a traditionalist then the Critérium du Dauphiné is also just round the corner, a chance to see a number of the major Tour de France contenders go head-to-head in the week-long race in the Alps.

Get ready for the Tour de France

Talking of the Tour, the Grand Départ in Dusseldorf is now just a month away, which is more than close enough to start to get excited about the biggest three weeks in the cycling calendar.

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Deck your bike with yellow bar tape, get your copy of Tour Magazine, book most of July off work, and begin to wonder if there is anyone who will be able to stop Chris Froome picking up his fourth Tour de France title.

Ride your bike

You had a great winter of training, but then the spring Classics came along and you let it slip a little. But by the middle of April you back going full gas, never missing a session, making every minute count.

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However then the Giro came along, and you steadily forgot about your bike, unwisely shunning it in favour of watching tedious sprint stages out of some sort of moral duty, then being genuinely hooked by the dramatic final week in the mountains.

Now you really need to get the hours in and make up for lost time. After all, you need to make sure you're ahead of the game before the Tour comes around and disrupts everything again in July.

Do some housework

In between going to work, watching the Giro, and reading about the Giro on Cycling Weekly, it's likely that your floor has gone unhoovered, the ironing is piling up, and the garden is overgrown.

It's also likely that, if your other half isn't into cycling quite as much as you, that patience may be wearing a little thin, so now's the time to earn some brownie points before you let it all go to pieces again come July.