A Cycling World Championships Dream

I’m honoured to have been selected to represent NZ at the Cycling World Championships, Glasgow, August 3-13 August.

This is the culmination of years of incredibly hard work and massive amounts of support from sponsors, mates, other riders, and my family. Thank you all so much.

The lead in to World Champs started 12 months ago. Racing for NZ in Canada last year was my first taste of genuine international competition and I loved it! Since then, I finished my NCEA L3, worked (including almost full time this year), saved hard, and trained 20 - 25 hours a week.

Like many sports, the honour of representing NZ in cycling is more or less self-funded.

Our little country still hasn’t quite figured out how to fund elite athletes beyond a few well funded sports. Racing internationally is expensive and I’m reminded every day how much backing the European riders receive, as do our USA, Canadian and British competition. We take trains to our races, live simply and make incredible memories. What we don’t have in financial support, we make up for in true grit and determination, plus a lot of humour.

The support I have had has been phenomenal.

Now I’m needing to get myself to Scotland later this month, to prepare for world champs from 3 to 13 August. The funding I’m seeking covers my travel, accommodation, nutrition, my NZ kit, bike mechanical support, spare parts, and everything in between.