Tell me about those first, that first year when you arrived in Europe wanting to follow that passion

and then being straight into the pro peloton. How did you feel?

Yeah well I mean a lot of sort of you know the progression my progression in cycling has a lot

to do I suppose with the numbers really so the way that I actually broke into cycling as such was by doing a power test.

So it's actually almost quite applicable, you know, coming from an engineering background,

which is all about analytics and problem solving and numbers.

Well, that's pretty much been the reason for my rise in pro cycling.

So, you know, I kind of, you know, I recognized my talent at university.

First started just by racing sort of league races in the area, fun rides and stuff like that.

And then university championships, you know, we have like university champs, you know, won that,

you know, sort of started to realize, okay, I have some potential here, you know,

then started winning some national races, performing well at the national championships. And then, as I

said, in my final year at engineering, had the opportunity to race in Odish with the club team.

And I came over to Ardash. I got properly, you know, solidly messed up there, you know, crashed and bike changes on a bike that was too big for me and all sorts of stuff. But I absolutely fell in love with European pro cycling in that tour. And I realized this is for me, you know, this is where I want to be. I don't want to be racing in South Africa. So the very next year is when, you know, I made that step to come over and to, and to give it a shot in Europe. And Giro was actually

pretty much my second race, you know, after arriving in Europe, because I also had the challenge

of breaking my collarbone in October of 2019 and again in February of 2009 and then again in February of 2010 at the tour of New Zealand, which was supposed to be my first sort of international race. So yeah, I mean. Same collarbone. Same collarbone, yeah, because there was a plate, you know, so you know how that happens. You know, first time, break it, put a plate in, second time breaks at either end of the plates. So anyway, so I had to take some time to come back from that.

And so Giro was sort of my first race overseas.

Unbelievable.

You were just listening to the story that I did last week with Ashley Moorman Passio,

the story about her rising up through the women's world tour but also about her story as well

what she's doing off the bike here over in spain with their great business the rocca corba cycling

and a whole lot more if you haven't heard that episode like always get across the cycling podcast

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