INTERVIEW
The end of the beginning
British road star Pete Kennaugh retired from racing in 2019 following years of mental health struggles. Rebecca Morley speaks with the 32-year-old about the next chapter - running his own cycling business
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ete Kennaugh has enjoyed a prestigious career in professional cycling – Olympic gold on the track, stage victories in the Critérium du Dauphiné, and multiple
national titles. But following his retirement from the peloton in 2019, the Manxman recently launched into the cycling business, with sports and lifestyle company SUPASS, offering coaching, nutrition services and cycling apparel. The coaching team is led by Kennaugh with support from
his brother Tim, who is currently a performance coach on the UCI WorldTour with Bahrain Victorious. To gain experience in the field, Kennaugh started coaching local junior riders and Trinity Racing’s Luke Lamparti. Under Kennaugh’s training, Lamparti has become the youngest rider to ever win the USA Elite Criterium Championships, winning a stage of Tour
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d’Eure et Loir and finishing 4th on stage five of last year’s Tour of Britain. “I was obviously a cyclist for so long and when you stop, it’s
like ‘what do you do?’,” Kennaugh told BikeBiz. “Even when I was a cyclist, I knew that I would quite like to work with that age group again and give back some of the stuff that I’d picked up along the way and my experiences, hopefully by sharing that it can help them. I started coaching with Lamparti and a couple of guys on the Isle of Man last year, and I knew I wanted to create a business. However, I needed to get experience first of working with different riders and different people before launching a coaching business.” But not just a coaching business, SUPASS also offers high performance nutrition services led by Marc Fell PhD, who is
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