Paris-Nice winner Earlier this season, Jorgenson claimed fourth place in the crucial 34.4 km race with the Clock in France's other week-long World Tour race.
At last year's Tour de Romandie TT, Jorgenson then spoke when he rode "more on feel" to perform equally impressive over longer, more challenging distances.
"I suffered a lot, but I did my best," Jorgenson, who was 18th on the same TT stage last year, told reporters afterwards. "I didn't really check my power, I did it more by feeling."
"It was just so long, it meant a lot of time suffering, but I think I had a good ride.
The Dauphine's rolling mid-week stage was not an easy challenge. However, he steadily shipped the time with new race leader Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), 24 seconds on the first check, 2 seconds on the 52nd - Jorgenson gave away only 12 seconds on the last part of the course, strongly suggesting that he handled his efforts very well.
"I divided it into sections, there was the first straight and flat part, it was more or less simple and stayed on the threshold," he later explained.
"There was a technical part with some hairy turns, there I stayed conservative and rested downhill. Then in the last 11 km, mostly false flat uphill, there you just get into the box.
Being the winner at the summit finish on last year's Oman tour and not to mention his sterling performance in the mountains of Paris, Jorgenson climbed past the third of Col de la Loge, the end of a relatively easy summit on Monday, certainly gives room for optimism. But Jorgenson was wary of overestimating his chances on the much more difficult Alpine stage to come. Of all the candidates, he will already face a rival of the caliber of Evenepoel, one of his main challengers from Paris - Nice.
"I think I feel pretty good, I had good training camp and good preparation, but this weekend's three mountain stages [from Friday-Ed."We have a lot of people who are interested in it," says Jorgenson. "These big shoulders suffer in the mountains, but I will do my best to do it.”
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