gold medallist, Victoria Pendleton. Yet to be reaping rewards. With Becky just
the young Abergavenny cyclist not only one of a number of Welsh cyclists honing
takes it in her stride, she welcomes the their talents on the track, the £7.5million
challenge. Wales National Velodrome is proving to
cycling
be a real asset in developing cycling in
“Victoria is a fantastic cyclist, but she’s Wales:
quite a lot older than me. It’s taken her
a long time to get where she is and I’m “I’m so lucky to have such a fantastic
hoping by the time I reach my peak, facility on my doorstep, otherwise it
she’ll be coming to the end of her career, would mean having to go to Manchester
leaving a gap for me to become the most all the time and I’m not sure how realistic
successful female cyclist for Britain.” that would have been with my school
down here.”
Winning her very fi rst race at just
12-years-old, her future looked promising The next few years will prove to be
from the outset, but breaking records and crunch time for Abergavenny’s number
winning medals requires more than just one rider. Not only will she leave her
natural fl air on a bike. studies behind to concentrate solely on
cycling, she’ll be moving up a gear into the
“I live and train in Wales, and with my world of senior competition - a time for
coach based in Manchester I need to be her to really prove her worth and to soak
really self-motivated. He sends me my up as much experience as possible:
programmes and I have to make sure I’m
disciplined and follow them step by step.” “I’ll have to make the major step from
being at the top of my game and the best
“I get a lot of support from the sports in the world to being at the bottom of the
science and medicine team at the Sports pack. But it will be all about getting the
Council for Wales, especially my strength experience to be the best, learning from
and conditioning coach, Martin Evans. I the more experienced cyclists and training
have gym sessions with him twice a week hard. I can’t wait!”
and he keeps me motivated. He teaches
me new techniques and defi nitely works And with her obvious determination and
me hard!” talent, nor can we!
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cycling over the years certainly seems
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