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The following is a report of my experience of what proved to be the best month of my life: the 2014 junior track cycling world championships, held in Seoul, South Korea.
After a long buildup since nationals, comprising of multiple training camps throughout the year and culminating in a final 2 week camp, we jumped on a plane bound for Japan. This final camp was awesome, as it not only got us up to our peak conditions physically, but it also gave us a taster of what the life of a professional athlete is like. It was also very cool to be in a team environment for so long, as we, ‘Unit 14’ grew to know each other very well and build some lasting friendships.
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Scotland put on a great games! No doubt about it, the sun shone like never before. It was actually bloody hot at times and even the queen wasn’t wearing a cardigan on her lunch date to the food hall.
The media did try to play down the games and for sure they are a tier below the Olympics with the smaller number of Countries involved; but the competition is just as fierce and just as hard to win the Commonwealth title. The velodrome was the place to be as always - the events are always exciting to watch and it was a great arena to race in from the atmosphere created from the crowd.
Being part of the Commonwealth Games opened my eyes up to all the countries there are in this world that we hardly ever hear about. These guys wouldn’t have much of a chance qualifing into the Olympics so it was pretty cool seeing how they talk, act, and represent their countries. Who knew that Mauritios, Saint Lucia, Faulkland Islands, Bahamas, Brunei, Ghana, Malawei, St Kitts and Nevis had bloody good sports teams and most of them even on the track and road.
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Another fine day was the weather dished up for the running of the Cheltenham handicap. And with this being the last event in the handicap series a good turnout of riders across all grades meant that the handicapper for the series had a job ahead of him ensuring that all riders were given a chance to win.
The marshalls on the course were given instructions and with no riders opting for the shorter course it was assumed that they would all head in the same direction. The course set was from Cheltenham up to Kiwitea and left on to Perry Line past the school to the Y intersection where a marshal would direct them on to McBeth Rd. Along McBeth Rd to the end before the gravel and another right turn on to Brice Rd before getting back out onto Kimbolton Rd. All riders opting to do the long ride so no riders should have turned left at Kimbolton Rd, they should have all continued an extra 5kms up to Kimbolton before returning to Cheltenham. Unfortunately the wrong instructions were given to 5 junior riders who headed straight back down avoiding the final climb to Kimbolton.
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On Thursday morning Brian Crothers and Ron Sims from St John met with Garry Wadsworth and were presented with a cheque for the money raised from the Jocelyn Goodwin Memorial ride. The presentation was outside Hokowhitu school where the ride started from on Saturday 21st June.
Brian thanked Garry for the donation and said that it would be used to upgrade the health shuttle service.
St John attend a number of events organised by Bike Manawatu and will be at the Feilding Festival of Cycling in September where a portion of each entry fee is also donated to St John.
More than a hundred cyclists turned out for the memorial ride and donated $420. Jocelyn was the Hokowhitu School deputy principal and so the place to make the presentation was a fitting tribute.
Garry continues to ride his bike although is currently focusing on mountain biking.