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BMC’s Brent Bookwalter has a sentimental connection with the Tour of Utah, but that’s only part of the reason it keeps bringing the contender back almost every year

It has been nearly two weeks since Brent Bookwalter returned to train and ride around Park City, a place he’s now so familiar with he knows the names of the streets, and all the twists and turns around town by heart. BMC Racing Team teammate Joey Rosskopf recently joked to Bookwalter that he’s made the annual summertime stop in Utah basically every year since he graduated from high school.

Since 2008, it has become engrained to Bookwalter’s schedule, too. The 34-year-old, who has represented BMC on eight Grand Tours since joining the team a decade ago and was part of the crew that helped Cadel Evans win the 2011 Tour de France, has a nostalgic connection to the roadways around the Beehive State.