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- Written by Colin Anderson
I’ve been lucky I can Choose my challenge/s, CANTEEN members are NOT so lucky- CANCER just ATTACKS whenever it wishes. Please consider helping these youth Cancer by supporting my 1000km attempt in a weeks time around the beautiful Marlborough Sounds.
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The New Zealand Elite & Under 19 Track Championship being held in the newly opened Velodrome (named Avantidrome to reflect a NZ home grown cycling family business sponsorship deal by Avanti Bikes) featured 9 athletes from around our region to represent WCNI West Coast North Island during 4 days of fast and furious racing.
Three-time world championship medalist Simon van Velthooven continued his dominance of the men’s 1000m time trial on the opening night to clock 1:01.998 to win Gold, and in the Individual match sprints gained bronze.
In the U19 Men 1000m TT or “kilo” Jordan Castle secured bronze with a personal best time of 1:06.595. In the hotly contested and argy bargy world of Keirin racing Castle provided the most exciting race of the evening to win Gold by straight wins through the heats, to convincingly lead in the final from 450m out after a tactical shoulder tussle from Southland's Mike Culling. Revenge by Culling evened the scales against Castle in the match sprints final where Castle was narrowly beaten and had to settle for Silver.
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- Written by James Denholm
On Monday 3rd of March we began our week-long trip down to Invercargill for the 2014 Age Group and Omnium Track Nationals. After a rather bumpy flight down, we soon made our way to the Birchwood Manor Motel where we would be spending the next 7 days in a great team environment. After quickly unloading some gear into our rooms we made our way down to the velodrome for the first of our training sessions. It’s always a great feeling getting back on the boards and it didn’t take long to settle into the rhythm and get some decent track time.
Tuesday was fairly quiet with a morning spin on the erg down at the track before returning later in the day for another track session focusing on our gate starts and flying laps. The rest of the day was spent keeping the legs off the ground and preparing all the gear for the start of racing the next afternoon.
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- Written by Chris Denholm
We left Palmerston North Airport on Monday to embark on another mission down to the deep southern town of Invercargill, just before leaving we were given a warning that the weather was not going to be on our side once we got there but that’s the beauty of an indoor velodrome, you can ride whatever the weather. After arriving it was straight to the motel to build up bikes and then we were off to the track to give it a whirl and get used to the boards. Tuesday involved more of the same which was great because for most of the riders it was either their first time on the track or they hadn’t been on the Invercargill boards since last year’s nationals.
Wednesday was the first of the 5 race days with the 500m TT in the evening. This was not my best event and so I wasn’t fussed about a bad result but was still going to give it all I had. It’s definitely a surreal experience when you’re in the start gates with only 2 people on the track and you know everyone is watching you. The countdown to the start is when the nerves really start to kick in. But I managed to block everything out and came out of the event with a pb. With Campbell Stewart finally winning the gold that has eluded him for the past 2 years.
Read more: 2014 Omnium and Age Group Track National Championships