Hey everyone,
What a day it has been......3.40am start, 4 hour race, packed bike box, packed bags and sat in traffic for 3 hours making our way down to Baltimore, finally making it at 7pm.....wow!!

The day started far too early at 3.40am, after having a restless night sleep with fierce thunderstorms lighting up the sky. Race day had finally come round. Feeling pretty good and having done all the hours of training for the last couple of months I knew it was going to be a good day!!

Raced here at the Half Ironman 70.3 Eagleman in Maryland last year and unfortunately got a drafting penalty of 4 minutes. I finished 2 minutes back in second place....you do the maths!! So I was out to set the record straight today...

The race start was very interesting......the MC got a little carried away with introducing the pro women that he forgot about the pro men in the water. All of a sudden we hear this 'GO!' over the speakers...15 seconds late and no warning. All of a sudden it was on and the race had started!

After the wary start I managed to get into a good position and find my rhythm early on. I really wanted to push the pace on the swim so I could put myself in the best position possible for the start of the bike. I felt really good out there and exited the swim in second, 20 seconds behind John Kenny.

After a great transition it was out onto the bike in hot pursuit of chasing down John Kenny As I was feeling pretty good I wanted to keep the pressure on as I had about a dozen extremely fast pro men chasing fast from behind. Got into a good rhythm and managed to pass Kenny early on in the bike and now into 1st. Continuing to keep my form strong throughout the bike I managed to put a 3.35 minute gap between me and the rest of the field.

Out on to the run with 3.35 minute lead I tried to get into a good rhythm and keep up a good tempo to hold off the chasing pack. At about mile 9 things unfortunately started to change a little...the legs feeling tired and definitely slowing down......bugger. All I could do was push through this and hope that I had put enough time into the chasing pack during the bike. With about 1.5m miles to go, I turned around just to see if I could see anyone and there was Richie Cunningham who was having a phenomenal run and catching me. With the legs completely finished and feeling like bricks I had to put the hammer down to the finish line. Managed to stay in front and taking the win, with Michael Lovato rounding out the top 3.
Terenzo

What a great place to have a race, Columbia Maryland is so beautiful, very green with loads of hills... well at least the course had plenty of hills. The weather was a little fresh and a little wet for my liking but with me
carrying a few extra kilos (my rubber ring) around the course it meant I didn't have to worry about overheating. We started at 6:45am and because the water was 70'F (over the 68' cut off) we were not allowed to wear our wetsuits. Ffffffreeezzzzing. But as we got going and the blood started pumping the cool temperatures made for a fast day. I was second out of the water with a little gap on the other competitors which was nice. I got going
on the bike and thought I was riding strong... I was riding strong but Andrew Yoder, a young 19 year old who is the bomb on the bike came rolling past me 10 minutes into the bike and made me feel like I was standing still.
He was the only person I saw out there on the challenging but fast 40km bike. He ended up putting almost 2 minutes into me by the end of the bike.

I felt good starting the run and just tried to find my rhythm. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to run back my 2 minute deficit, all I could do was run within myself and hope to see him by the end of the 10km run. I got to half way and still no sign on Yoder. There were was plenty of up and downhill throughout the run so I just keep working it and eventually at about 4.5 miles / 7.5 km I caught him, but he didn't give up and pushed me all the way to the finish. I managed to hold him off for the win and we were not too far off the course record.

What a great place to have a race, Columbia Maryland is so beautiful, very green with loads of hills... well at least the course had plenty of hills. The weather was a little fresh and a little wet for my liking but with me
carrying a few extra kilos (my rubber ring) around the course it meant I didn't have to worry about overheating. We started at 6:45am and because the water was 70'F (over the 68' cut off) we were not allowed to wear our wetsuits. Ffffffreeezzzzing. But as we got going and the blood started pumping the cool temperatures made for a fast day. I was second out of the water with a little gap on the other competitors which was nice. I got going
on the bike and thought I was riding strong... I was riding strong but Andrew Yoder, a young 19 year old who is the bomb on the bike came rolling past me 10 minutes into the bike and made me feel like I was standing still.
He was the only person I saw out there on the challenging but fast 40km bike. He ended up putting almost 2 minutes into me by the end of the bike.

I felt good starting the run and just tried to find my rhythm. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to run back my 2 minute deficit, all I could do was run within myself and hope to see him by the end of the 10km run. I got to half way and still no sign on Yoder. There were was plenty of up and downhill throughout the run so I just keep working it and eventually at about 4.5 miles / 7.5 km I caught him, but he didn't give up and pushed me all the way to the finish. I managed to hold him off for the win and we were not too far off the course record.

Afternoon all, (Or good morning if you knocked off early..)
Well it was a race and a half yesterday!! The other half I'm still looking for somewhere in Korea in the last 300 meters.. No really jokes aside a great start to the season for myself and to be involved in such an exciting race until the last 300 meters was fantastic.

Everyone wanted to start the World Championship Series off with a bang, and yesterday the boys heeded the calls. The new World Championship series has been great addition this season and there was a lot of expectation heading into round one in Tongyoeng Korea. The Women went first on Saturday and then we hit the road yesterday in some what overcast conditions you would say. But with a nice bit of humidity to deal with as we hit the run.

As always your start in the swim can make or break your race.. Either you get free early and into some nice clean water, or prepare for what best be described as fighting to stay alive! I did get whacked around a bit but got free enough to stay in the lead group. I was towards the back but out of trouble and exited the water in 26th place 16 seconds behind the lead man. Once on the bike I was quickly in the first group and watching out for the possible breakaways of any big threats. The course was very fast and so even to get away was going to take quite a lot of energy. A couple of big names slipped away early but it seemed like not the best idea to chase so early on in the race and conserving energy was more important. Late in the bike two Russian athletes broke away. It was a really good move and they made time very quickly as we all started to look around and think about the run. That move would pay big dividends further on for one Russian athlete and for me too!

Coming into the second transition I positioned myself at the front of the big pack of 40 guys. I hit the ground running and got my pumas on quick smart and went to work! As I exited transition I got the calls that we were 1 minute behind the front two, and 45 seconds behind the two russian guys. After the first lap of 2.5k a chase group had formed. In it was Myself, Brad Khalafeldt, Bevan Docherty, Jarrod Shoemaker, and Laurent Vidal. The five of us stayed together for most of the next lap and also reeled in all of the lead guys except Dimitri Polyanski. As we hit 6k we dropped Shoemaker and Vidal, and by 7k had caught the front running Russian. So with 3k to go there were 4 of us left to fight for the victory. All of us thought Polyanski would just drop off as we moved by but he hung tough and surprised us all. Still At this point I was feeling pretty good. I had managed to control my rhythm and was thinking about every meter as I approached it over the last lap. My coach had told me to wait until the last K before making any kind of a move. It was my go button and it was creeping ever nearer and I still felt good. I moved out at this point and changed my pace to make a move, no sooner had I done so when a sniper hit me from the trees!! Really from one moment to the next my legs lost out. With no warning signs I started to get cramp and quickly tried to tuck back in behind the guys and hope they didn't see I was suffering and hoped they thought I was bluffing. Well with 300 meters to go they called my bluff and hit me hard. I tried to go with the final move but my body just wouldn't allow it. Bevan and Brad ended up having one of the most amazing sprints you will ever see in sport let only triathlon. Bevan ended up wining by an inch on the photo finish. But then the photo was disputed by Brad and there was nearly an hour that went by before they announced that the original placing would stand. I stammered home in 4th wondering where I went wrong in the last few moments that meant the most.
Sport is about moments and I've had my share of moments in this sport. To be part of the first round of the new World Championship Series was great and to be involved in a sprint finish like that ( well sort of ) was amazing. To finish 4th first up is a great start to the season for me. It leaves me with something to work on and I know all the guys will only get faster.

Well the plane is about to board for my flight to the US to start my next block of training in Boulder Colorado with Bevan. Im sure it will be a lot of fun and that we will continue to push ourselves to new heights as does the competition. I look forward to the next races in the series in Madrid and in Washington DC and look forward to showing you all back home what hard work and perseverance can accomplish.
Cheers
Kris

Hey guys
It is the end of a long day here in St. Petersburg, Florida, even though it was a shorter race than I am used to. It was an Olympic distance race, but non drafting on the bike made it a more fun playing field for me. The race was held about 30 minutes from where I won the World 70.3 Championships last November.... Kelly and I love this part of the world, the sun is always shinning.

The age group swim was canceled due to the water conditions being really rough, I wish they cancelled our swim and made it a bike run.

I lost a bit of time in the swim to the likes of Andy Potts and Matt Reed (2x winner here) but made up good ground on the tactical and fast bike course and came off the bike in second behind Andy, about 40 seconds down. I ran most of the run with him in my sights but couldn't seem to bridge the gap...bugger.

To round off the top three was Stuart Hayes from Great Britain, also a ITU racer from way back moving into the non drafting scene.

We have had a great stay here in St. Pete's with our home stay, Lisa and Philippe and all our new friends... well actually there friends that we will now claim. They made our stay here relaxing and enjoyable.

Next stop Specialized bikes in Morgan Hill, CA for a couple days before heading down to Wildflower to get punished by the course. This year the race has one of the toughest fields in the history with almost 80 professionals lining up on the start line. Sure it will be good fun as always.
Thanks
Terenzo

Please find attached my latest race updates. I have had a perfect record for the NZ season, lets hope it continues for the international part of my year.

I have also updated my website, feel free to check it out http://docherty.co.nz it even has the Womens Day article of my wedding for those that missed it...

Also click on the links below if you would like to see my recent media coverage.

TV1 News http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/docherty-sweetland-win-continental-cup-2619553/video

TV1 News http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/docherty-and-tanner-reign-supreme-2542880/video

Close UP http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/docherty-and-gemmell-friends-and-rivals-14-04-2505615/video

TV3 News http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/Olympians-show-class-at-NZ-triathlon champs/tabid/303/articleID/95366/cat/100/Default.aspx#top

I will be heading off to Korea in 2 weeks for the first round of the ITU World series.

Race Update
Well, it’s been a surprisingly good start to the year, with three wins in three races and two were national titles.

I guess the reason for the surprise was because of the amount of time off I had after Beijing, and the fitness I would have lost. However, going into my first race, training had been going well, I was very familiar with the course, and I was a man on a mission - to punish people!

NZ Sprint Champs, Kinloch
Kinloch was the first triathlon I ever competed in, and being organized by my home club I really wanted to race well. Some of the younger guys were in some great shape and I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, so I thought to myself, what the hell, I won’t make it easy for them as well. Certainly on a course like Kinloch you can capitalize on the bike and make something happen, so I planned to attack on the bike and see who could follow!

I had a great swim, exiting in 3rd, which set me up nicely for the bike. The course was 3 laps through the streets of Kinloch, with a very nasty climb on each lap. Just as we hit the climb for the first time I pounced, not looking behind I rode with maximum effort all the way to the top, when I turned around I was pleasantly surprised to see that the pack had disintegrated and no one was in contact. So at that point I put my head down and went for it. After the 1st lap I had a 30 second lead, then 60second after the 2nd lap and finally 90 when I got off the bike. By this time the damage was done, so I just cruised the run to come home for a relatively easy national title.

After sprint nationals the plan was to race Takapuna, this would have been a very fun event and a great showdown between me and my best mate Kris Gemmell. However, a week out from the event I strained my neck! Trying to train through that I tweaked my ribs, and through compensating for those my shoulder started giving me grief!! Injuries like this can go one way or the other, and being this early in the season I decided now to risk it so pulled out of the race. This proved to be a good decision, as Gemmell completely dominated the race, and it would have been a very painful day!

NZ Triathlon Champs, Wellington
Next up was National Tri Champs in Wellington. Once again there was a lot of uncertainty going into this race. Not due to injury or lack of fitness, but I had just got married 2 weeks earlier and had spent a good amount of time organizing that. However there was nothing to worry about, as the Wellington weather behaved itself and I once again had control of the race.

This time round Gemmell wasn’t racing, however I still have to contend with a few of the younger athletes, and wanted to focus on key aspects of my race. First thing was to have a good swim, in the past I have struggled this early on, but after changing a few things with my swimming a was once again well positioned coming out of the water. The bike ride in Wellington was a bit of a “Sunday bunch ride” and a complete contrast to Kinloch, however I wanted to focus on my run so didn’t care too much.

However, once on the run the plan was to wait for the first lap and then put the hammer down on the 2nd lap and finally ease off for the final lap. This worked perfectly, cruising in for another National title.

Oceania Continental Cup Race, New Plymouth
As I started to get to the business end of the NZ season, I was looking forward to the much talking about battle between Kris and myself at New Plymouth. However as the gods and Kris’s luck would have it, it wasn’t to be!

The Race in New Plymouth has been both good and bad to me, with an amazing win against Kris in my first year, and a DNF last year. However on the bright side, the race organizers had finally included the steep climb just out of transition, after many years of pushing for it, although in my eyes it was still too short…

Anyway, this year they had decided to create a battle of the sexes concept, with the women starting 14 min’s ahead and a massive $500 for 1st across the line. Needless to say I was more focused on just winning the men’s race!!!

For the swim and first part of the bike Kris and I were side by side, and working well together, we had managed to get a good group of 8 away on the bike and were holding off the chase group. However on the 3rd lap when I signaled Kris to come though he didn’t, looking behind he was nowhere to be seen? After questioning the other guys in the group they told me he had had a nasty crash about 1km back…

From then on in the race was mine, with a few lame attempts in the first few km’s of the run, I cruised to a disappointingly easy win. Great to win, but not great race training for the big race season ahead…

So there we have it, 3 wins, 2 national titles and a great start to the season, although I still realize there is a lot of hard work ahead of me, and the competition is only going to get much harder!

Next race up is the first race of the World cup series in Tongyong Korea. I’m very pumped about this new series, and looking forward to a great year.

Cheers
Bevan

First win in Tour of Thailand!
Good news from Thailand . Marco Polo’s James Spragg from UK won today’s stage in Tour of Thailand. James, already early in the season in great form, won this stage over 185 km in the sprint against the other 18 riders of the first group. James won, as he was supported greatly by our rider Xing Yan Dong from China , who finished 12th. The Tour of Thailand race consists of 6 stages over 905 km near the city Udon Thani in the North East of Thailand. The riders: Ahmad Haidar Anuawar , Sea Keong Loh, James Spragg, Eric van de Meent and Xing Yan Dong.

DCM: Event sponsor for Trek Marco Polo Team
Some people may have noticed the adjusted shirts during the Giro del Capo in South Africa . Especially for this race the Trek- Marco Polo Cycling Team was presented by DCM Chrome, a South African company which supports South African racers to get closer to the world’s best.

Marco Polo want to thank DCM for their great support for this race and the great cooperation!

Hard Giro del Capo
Giro del Capo 2009 will be reminded as a race with extreme weather conditions. With temperatures around the fourty degrees and with several forest fires nearby it was a very tough race. The Giro del Capo consists of 4 stages plus the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour, the world’s largest bicycle ride with more then 35.000 participants!

The riders of Trek Marco Polo Team p/b DCM could not completely meet the high expectations, a big part of that had to do with bad luck. 4 of the 6 Trek-MPC riders crashed during the race and all did have mechanicals at some point. This was also due to the specificrace conditions: a lot of riding in the gutter on rough roads, but it did hit our guys hard at key moments in the race. Despite this, the riders can look back at a good race under guidance of road captain Leon van Bon and with a positive mindset for future races. A great basis has been created for big performances during the rest of the season.

Jaco Venter Time Trial Champion South Africa
Trek – Marco Polo Cycling Team rider Jaco Venter became the new time trial champion from South Africa . With an impressive performance he took the title in the Under 23 category but also the overall by beating the best Elite rider by half a minute!
Jaco is the next national champion on the team after Liu Yilin’s road title in China .

Grand Prix du Portugal

Jaco Venter showed his great potential in the 3rd and last stage of the GP Portugal. Jaco managed to finish 8th in the hard climbing stage – proving he cannot only sprint and time trial, but also climb very well! After finishing all three stages in the top-10, Jaco did get a well deserved 5thplace in the final general classification!

South East Asia trip for young Marco Polo riders
The Trek – Marco Polo Cycling Team is getting set to embark on a long Asian Tour after finding success in South Africa in the early season. The team's upcoming Asian program starts with the Tour of Thailand (April 4-9) followed by a training camp in Thailand before ending the month at the Jelajah Tour of Malaysia (April 19-26) and Tour of Singkarak in Indonesia (April 30 – May 3).

The vision of the Marco Polo team is to combine western and Asian riders and staff to learn from each other and bring the Asian talents to the highest level of cycling. The team in Asia will be led by Kwanchai Nualchanchy from Thailand and Rob Conijn from the Netherlands .

European riders Eric van der Meent ( Netherlands ) and James Spragg ( Great Britain ) will join Xing Yan Dong from China , Genta Nakamura from Japan , Ahmed Haidar Anuawar who makes his debut in the team and Loh Sea Keong from Malaysia.

More information about the Trek – Marco Polo Cycling Team: www.marcopolocyclingteam.com

Good morning everyone,

Well its pretty early in the morning for me to be up the day after a big race. Normally I would be still in bed letting my body recover after flogging it one more time over the weekend, but it was not to be. Not that I didn't try to still give my body some pain to deal with, just a different type!!

After last weekends second place in the first World Cup of the year in Mooloolaba I spent the whole week recovering to prepare for yesterdays International points race in New Plymouth. I love to race over there as the crowd and the local support is a real credit to the community and in my eyes this is New Zealands premiere race. The course had changed slightly this year and it was going to be really challenging with a steep 22% climb on every 6 laps of the bike, and also the first lap of the run. Of course a course like this suits me and other real strength athletes like my good mate Bevan Docherty. It would be the first time we would meet this year. Both of us were looking forward to pushing each other all the way ahead of the first World Championship series event in Korea, in a months time.

My race started well exiting the swim in 8th place 25 seconds down off the front three guys but by the time I hit the top of the hill 1k later I had already hit the front of the race. When you compete as much as I've done you know as soon as you get on your bike what kind of day it will be and I had great legs early on. A group formed quickly of 8 athletes at the front and we started to work well straight away. I'm sure this group would have stayed away if it had not been for what happened next.
As we hit the fast downhill heading back into transition for the first time I was following closely behind Australian Clayton Fettell. As we hit a fast left hand corner at around 60kph Clayton drifted a bit wide towards the barriers. I ended up on his outside as he changed his line to correct himself. He hit a small bump in the road and his back wheel stepped out into my front wheel. I went down like a sack of spuds. I slid across the road and into the barriers. I wanted to get up and get going again as I knew it was going to be another good day on the run for me. But my handlebars were cracked and it was just iimpossible to ride anymore.

I did nice job on myself and have finally got some matching tattoos to go with my last ones from New Plymouth two years ago which nearly happen in almost identical circumstances. I've been doing triathlon for 11years and have only hit the deck three times including training as well. To go down for the second time in New Plymouth was a real shame and for all my family and sponsors that travelled to watch me do something special yesterday, we will just have to wait until next month now.

So that curse that everyone talks about with me, bit me again!! Really though I'm starting to wonder when the big guy will start to cut me some slack. I should have known something was going to happen when my Mum and Dad rang me on friday in New Plymouth to say that my house had been broken into. I hope the little weasels enjoy running around in my puma running shoes and wearing all my mint Oakleys. Be sure they will stand out a bit in Palmy running that kind of gear so look out boys!! They also took a liking to most of my Olympic gear which was the biggest shame and something that I'll have to replace "myself" now in London..
Cheers,
Kris

I'm Scottish/UK nationality, my results are on my website www.scottneyedli.com and I race for the German Dresdner Kleinwort Triathlon team (captained by Normann Stadler) & have a 1st and 2nd place at Ironman UK in the past 2 seasons.
Professional:
2008 Ironman UK - 2nd
2008 Ironman New Zealand - 10th
2008 Ironman UK 70.3 - 8th
2008 Scottish Open Standard distance Championship - 2nd
2007 Ironman Hawaii World Ironman Championships - 33rd
2007 Ironman UK - 1st (course record)
2007 Ironman South Africa - 7th
2007 Persona Oliver ½ Iron - 1st
2007 Scottish Open Standard distance Championship - 1st
2007 Ironman UK 70.3 - 7th

Amateur:
2006 ETU European Long Distance Championships - M25-29 1st
2006 Hawaii World Ironman Championships - 47th (M25-29 3rd)
2006 Ironman Switzerland - 12th (M25-29 2nd)
2006 Scottish Open Middle distance Championship - 1st

So on Saturday the 7th March 2009 in my home country New Zealand in front of a spectacular crowd down in Taupo I competed and completed my first full distance Ironman. I now know how it got its name!!! It was one of the toughest days of my life not only cause of the physicality of the event but also because of how the event plays with your mind and tries to destroy you in any way it can.

The day started at 4am for me when I got up, my beautiful girlfriend cooked me breakfast in bed (I can't get her to do that for me at 6:30am most of the time). I then did a small bike and run warm up from our motel before heading down to transition to get body numbered and put air in my tires. The gun went off at 6:45, 15 minutes in front of the age groupers. I tried my hardest to stay next to Brent Foster who is an awesome swimmer but that didn't last long. A small bunch of 7 formed and we chugged around the 3.8km swim. Unfortunately Cameron Brown had been working on his swimming and we were unable to brake him, from then I knew it was going to be an interesting day.

Once I put on my arm warmers and socks (it was a little bit cold) we started the journey on our 180km bike. Here is the thing with ironman, the pace actually feels reasonably easy for the first half but the second half feels like death. I was honestly ready to get off my bike after lap 1 and call it a half ironman! Eventually the second lap did start, I managed to get my special needs bag which had a couple drink bottles and a snickers bar in it without too much trouble. There were 4 of us rotating the lead, although we were not getting an advantage from sitting 10-15m behind the person in front it was a great mental break to be able to ride and look at others than riding at the front with only bare road in front of you.

45km to go and Dirk Bockel made a break for it, then at 40km to go Cameron Brown started to pull away and I couldn't do anything about it, this was my first bad patch of the day. All I could do was concentrate on pedaling and count down the km's. After eating my snickers bar and drinking 2 bottles of Pepsi I started to climb out of my slump and was able to ride properly again breaking away from the remaining 2 guys in our group. Now the bike was over how the hell am I meant to run a marathon is what was going through my mind. Truthfully it was the crowd that started me off, the cheers were so loud that I couldn't hear my body moaning at me so all I could do was run. Brownie was 45seconds up the road and Dirk had managed to stretch out to a 5minute 30second lead. For the first 10km Brownie was in my sights, we were both running quicker than we should have been but he wasn't pulling away, at about 12km that all changed, heading back into town on the first lap I was hurting but I couldn't give up because my support crew were turning up everywhere and there was no way I was going to walk in front of them!!!

At the end of the first lap, Dirk was still up 4min and Brown had stretched out to just over 2minutes. All I could do was run my pace and keep my rhythm, I guess this is what they call the Ironman shuffle! 10km's to go and Dirk was only 2 minutes up the road, Brown has taken the lead and was showing his class by not slowing down as all of the grueling 42km. Dirk, also a first time Ironman athlete who was running time into Cam and myself for the first 10km was now starting to struggle, he was walking through aid stations and I could see him coming closer and closer. With about 6km to go I passed him and all I could think about was making it to the last 2.5km where I knew the crowd would carry me home, and that is what they did, the pavement was lined with massive amounts of people, out the corner of one eye I saw Harold, the mascot for Life Education what an awesome surprise. I wasn't sure how much time I had put into Dirk so I couldn't slow and start high 5ing people cause I felt like I would trip up or do something stupid in my almost comatose state.

Finally I was in the finish chute and all the pain and suffering from the day was a distant memory, I had done it, I had worked through all the mental barriers and made it to the finish. What a day and 2nd behind Cameron Brown, well that's ok, for now.

Congratulations to everyone who finished the race, inside or out of the cut off time, you are my inspiration. Seeing you guys out there still giving your all when most people have tucked into bed to call it a day, that is what Ironman is all about.

Thanks to everyone who have been part of my preparation for this event, there is no way I would be where I am now without your help and support.

Here are a couple links with some news coverage and photos for your information.
TV1:
http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/brown-storms-eighth-ironman-win-2523604/video

TV3:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/sports/19321.html

Here is a link to some photos
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/lPgfWBWAUH_/2009+Ironman+New+Zealand/32I0VpWEKiD/Terenzo+Bozzone

Thanks again
Terenzo

Riders list 2009
The team is ready for the 2009 season! We are really happy to have this group of riders together. It is a good mix of young talents and experience and also a group that is suitable for all types of races as there are G.C. riders, sprinters and helpers.