John Lee Cycling Coaching

2012-01-31T16:45:00.000-08:00

Now Im officially a triathlon coach, got my Level 1 accreditation today

whats happening

2011-10-22T23:14:00.000-07:00

well the boys are back from Europe, Clinton with a pro contract and Wade with a solid year of more learning. Clinton has signed for the Pro Conti Champion Systems cycle team. This will see him back in Belgium again but doing pro races and some Asian tour races. Just waiting to get the team plan for Clinton and we will put his training year together.

Olly is about to race his key event at XTERRA in Maui, hoping he calls me tomorrow to tell me he is the third world champ I have coached.

The MTB riders are now hitting it in training to be ready for the national series in starting in January.

A new bike has arrived through Logan and his San Jose Hotels team, loving it.

2011

2011-08-17T02:03:00.000-07:00

I guess its been a long time coming, so a historical update. Well the year start well with Clinton having a stagier with Radio shack and signing a contract with Pegasus. Unfortunately that turned to be a vapour team. So back to the amateurs for another Belgium season. He has had a couple of good wins in some big races, in between having appendix out and rebuilding again.
Wade has been progressing well with his team and has had a couple of very good races and podiums. Logan has been ripping up Texas, winning most of the races he is entering.
Olly is building up his Xterra Training and should be a good bet for a world Title come October in Maui. Scott and Monique are battling crazy problems but hopefully getting through that. Ash and Raewyn have been racing well through the winter and picked up a couple of wins on the MTB.
Almost for got the biggest start to the year was backing up with a tour win at the NZ Tour of Wellington. Was a great pleasure to put together a team that supported George Bennett to his big win.

Youth Olympics Singapore

2010-09-01T16:20:00.000-07:00

Im just back from the IOCs 1st Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. These large multi sport events are something else. 30million spent on the opening ceremony alone!!!
results were what we expected with our team, with the highlight being Kates 4th in the Time trial. My hope is that this inspires these athletes to work even harder and make a real go at being excellent in this sport. I hope that they have learned a little about professionalism and what it takes to succeed.

While this was going Clinton was racing Stagier with Radio Shack at the Tour of Denmark, he pulled out a 5th on the last road stage!! He has a few more races coming up including Paris Brussels, then on to Commonwealth Games in India. He will probably win that:-)

john

U23 TT Club championships

2010-05-03T23:05:00.000-07:00

Sweet one Ryan, taking out the U23 TT, shame about the crash in the road race. I was predicting a great result there also.
but one title is ok

power training

2010-04-27T18:50:00.000-07:00

Spent last Sunday with Hunter Allan the creator of "Cyclingpeaks" software and a bit of a guru on power training. Took away a lot of information and recapped a lot I already knew. Great day and better than any of the cycle coaching courses I have attended.

Avery's on fire

2010-04-27T15:37:00.000-07:00

Well the two actively racing Avery's are going fantastic. Clinton has chalked up another win in belgium the Grote Prijs Stad Roeselaere. This gives him 2 from 6 so far the same win ratio as Eddy Merckx :-)

Monique had the NZ Xterra championships, racing in her age group so that we can race that at the worlds. She came in Second overall and had a very fast race. Great signs for the future. I have told her not to go pro until she is the fastest amateur it the worlds.

Brad Carter is just back from a hard Nations cups series with the National team. Wade is racing in France in the div 1 and just trying to string some luck together.

The MTB riders are track building and thinking about the worlds in canada

the new season

2010-03-11T14:17:00.000-08:00

Clinton is winning in Belgium, 1st at Vlaamse Prij 1.2. this is the biggest result for clinton and a great way to start what we pick will be a great year.

Wade has returned to france with a new team and seems very happy with the set up, the racing starts soon for him.

Taken on a new rider, Brad Carter from cambridge, he will be based in Spain racing with Michael Torckler and will be in the NZ team for the U23 Nations Cup races in Belgium, France and Begium.
Tom David has chosen a different path this year, and I wish him good luck and hope it works out for him.

The MTB riders have all but wrapped up the Domestic racing and only have Oceanias left. Hoping that most have done enough to make Worlds selections.

all good, I ready for the results to start flowing in
john

Tour of Wellinton Photos

2010-02-03T23:51:00.000-08:00

Tour Of Wellington 2010

2010-02-01T16:33:00.000-08:00

Just back from a very enjoyable Tour of Wellington. They say winners are grinners and we sure are smiling.

I always wanted to build a team of elite level riders and take them to this tour. I hadnt been back since Bryce Shapley got 2nd in 2000. So it was time. I build the team with Wade and Clinton as my first choice riders and though them developed a team that would back each other and pass on any personal ambition if needed. We added George Bennett who was racing with Wade all year in France and is a beautiful climber with many wins in France already for some one so young. Clinton suggested that Mike Torckler would be good to have also. I didnt know Mike but knew he has been U23 TT champ and can climb like the wind. That left one more spot and I suggested Aaron Strong as another climber and some one with a great deal of knowledge and has raced in teams with both Clinton and Wade at the Tour of Southland. So the team was set and I approached Jorge Sandoval about being in one of his Sponsored teams. He agreed and we started as the Cardno team.

From the start the guys from Cardno were in touch offering a team car and setting up anything we needed at the stage finish. These guys become part of our team and we were proud to be part of team Cardno. It was great to have the corporate managers in the car and teach them about the dynamics of racing when they could see it evolve, its just not a ride from one place to another. The level of commitment that the team put out on the road has made a great impression on the Sponsors and they are keen to do it bigger and better next year. I sense a partnership developing here.

Race tactics for us was simple. Loss no time on the first day and save everything for Admirals hill. We had a plan that Michael would attack on the second to last climb and use this to go for stage victory. The back up was George to hit it on Admirals. And with Aaron also we knew we had a great chance to surprise some people in this tour. The race went just to plan, Mike closed a gap on the climb and then attacked to take a 5 second lead of the Drapac rider. This stage also saw team Cardno with 3 riders in top 10 and this set up our victory in the teams classification.

From this point George had to put aside dreams of the U23 comp as he had to be Mikes right hand man. Clinton, Aaron and Wade then proceeded to kill themselves over the next 2 stages to ensure that Mike stayed Yellow and as long as we had three finish in or close to the main peloton we would have Teams sorted also.

Great results,
Michael Torckler 1st Overall and 3rd KOM
George Bennett 2nd U23 and 9th overall
I dont even know where Wade and Clinton finished as its not important, they did a huge job.
Aaron was a DNF but not before he gave the team everything he had.

And me Now a UCI 2.2 tour winning DS

Bay Trust Coach of the Year

2009-12-01T22:01:00.000-08:00

Wow, great surpise at the Bay Of Plenty sports awards. I won the Open Bay Trust Coach of the Year 2009. Thanks all you athletes that train and race to win like professionals. You are all making my CV look very good. Cant thank you all enough. Chur Chur

2009-06-08T13:35:00.000-07:00

Clinton and Ryan getting ready to race.......

just a new update if i can remember anything

2009-06-08T13:11:00.000-07:00

Been non stop excitement for the last while. Roadies -Wade has been racing well in France and has made an impact on his team, as we new he would. Ryan has stated to come on with a real concentrated effort in training and is ready to go to the next level. Andrew Ward has been making steady progress but has been really unlucky racing in Aus, but it will click soon. Tom David is still finding his feet at the U23 level, just as Ryan, Logan and Clinton did in their first years. Logan has been up and down with training and racing but looking to have a strong 2nd half. Clinton has been in great form and has been winning races, and another top 10 finish in Paris Roubaix. The plan now is to win as much as possible to make a CV that turns heads.

The MTB riders have been making good results as usual. Ash the U23 National Champ, Monique the North island series winner. Patrick Avery, Scott Green and Nigle McDowell also great national series and championships. The Worlds team has been anounced and in the first round of selections Ash, Monique and Patrick have been selected and we hope that Scott will be added to the list after this weekends racing. Thomas Lindrup has had a few problems but now has that sorted and is training well for defence of his World 24hr Title.

My coaching has been going well with, I was invited to be guest speaker at a Sport BOP coaches breakfast and just recently was the Bike presenter at a training camp for Tri athletes going to the age group world championships. The Waiariki Bike Squad (now including road and track riders) has been going great and with Katie and Carl also making the worlds team, the squad will have great representaion at the worlds which is a fantastic achievement for the team.

team changes

2009-02-18T22:48:00.000-08:00

well Logan's Cinelli team turned a bit crapolla, but the silver lining was still there with Nico Mattan the team director looking at options and has taken the Cinelli sponsorship and joined with Down Under to keep the pro dream alive. Logan is on his way to Belgium to have hopefully his best ever season.

No National Titles this year but close!

2009-01-11T15:23:00.000-08:00

Big ups to Ryan Wills with a very close TT results only 4 seconds off the U23 National Title finishing in 2nd place. Both Ryan and Wade had good solid road races but the race was a little soft with the break gone and no one willing to chase, but thats racing!!

Monique won the Auckland round of the National series and takes lead in NI XC series.
Clinton is off the bike still and we are working on that. Logan is training hard in Perth and I have write an number of training programs and finish my degree in the next few weeks.

just a count up of national champions I have coached to date

2009-01-06T21:32:00.000-08:00

the soon to be added to list

Clinton Avery - Jn TT, U23 TT, Junior MTB XC, Elite MTB XC, Short track MTB XC
Stuart Houltham- 2x Elite MTB XC
Sonia Foote -Elite MTB XC, open womens MTB XC
Logan Hutchings- U23 TT and Road Race, Elite TT
Monique Avery - Jn MTB XC, U23 MTB XC, Elite Short Track MTB XC

and many others have collected medals also

the good and the bad

2009-01-06T21:26:00.000-08:00

first the good
Nigel and Patrick both won their races at the first round of the North Island National series, Monique was 2nd and Ash 5th and Scott 6th.
the bad
Clinton would have won the Elite but on last major decent he stacked it and had to one leg pedal his way to the finish. His lead vanished and he finished 3rd but a ride in the Ambulance was the prize. Worst fears was a broken femur, but fortunately just severe bruising. He should be OK for road nationals this weekend.

other racing was the tour of vineyards with Wade and Ryan doing strong rides in prep for nats in a few days.

2008-12-19T19:43:00.000-08:00

Well Logan is pro with the Cinelli professional cycling team. Its an Italian/Belgium squad in which Logan will be mainly involved with the Belgium racing but will start early Jan with the tour of Venezuela.

mid north island series

2008-12-14T00:28:00.000-08:00

what a great result for the guys, Scott Green, Monique Avery, Patrick Avery and Nigel McDowell all won their grade in the series. An excellent effort and hinting that things are going well for the Nationals.

pre xmas wrap

2008-12-12T11:10:00.000-08:00

so what been going on....
the PM scholarship has been winding up and the university stress will soon be behind me. Pleasing to finish this grad diploma with an average of "Pass with Distinction" including one course, training elite athletes with "High Distinction", the highest grade awarded. I also had a nomination for Bay of Plenty Coach of the Year, but was beating out by the NZ sevens Rugby coach.....next year!!! But Monique won the Junior Sports Women award, wicked

I have also been approached by one of the most promising Juniors (now U23) and are happy to be guiding the training of Tom David who will be riding for the Davo-lotto continental team in Belgium next year. Other great news is the progress of Wade Mangham, who was looking to have a domestic season next year when out of the blue a club in France has invited him to their team next year. There approach was based initialy on Wades worlds results and when they looked deeper they like the results that he had gained here in NZ. He even gets to take a mate over with him to make the NZ-France transition a litle easier.

Clinton is joining a new Amateur team in Belgium "PWS" and will be on a cervelo next year. This should be a good move for Clinton as he will be having another go at winning Paris Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders, if they come off He will have the Pro tour knocking on his door for sure.

Logan is in the process of signing with a pro squad in belgium that features an absolute legend in Belgie cycling. More news when its official. Ryan Wills is heading back to Bodysol - Euro Millions Pôle Continental Wallon.

So with 5 riders racing in Europe this year I might just have to take a holiday and go and see them all racing.

Back home the Waiariki squad is getting all the pre build up stuff out of the way with muscle screans, testing etc. soon to be into the National cup races......

so more to come

long time coming

2008-07-31T17:30:00.000-07:00

well Its been a while, more involved with coaching than blogging. firstly some highlights
Clinton and Logan winning in Europe. And another World Champion with Thomas winning the U25 24hour MTB title in canada.

I have just returned from South Africa where I had the role of National Junior Road Coach. The highlight of that trip was the good results of Tom David who backed up last years results with another top 10 in TT and a strong showing in the road race. The other riders raced strongly and only faded late in the race. For all of them it was the biggest race that they have done.

Thats about it really, just getting back into preparing the Waiariki MTB squad and helping the roadies gain those big results that make people turn heads.

more news if i can remember it

2008-05-01T16:44:00.000-07:00

Things have been cruising along with riders all over the show doing well.
Starting with the Uni games, Monique won both the road and the MTB XC titles.
Ash Hough has been selected for the MTB worlds and won the NZ Secondary Schools championships with wins in both the XC and the hill climb.
Over in Europe Logan has just finished 10th in the Tour de Bretagne. Clinton has been playing in Italy at the tour delle regioni. But due to a bit of time lost and the really bad weather conditions he pull out of the race, there are more important and better suited races just round the corner in belguim. Ryan has finally started a race and finished 12th and more important has his SRM working. And Josh Brown has also joined the coaching team and I will be helping him make some results on the roads of belgium. I really need to win lotto and move over there and run a team of Kiwis.

we also just had the Tineli junior tour in rotorua and the TA selection tour in Te Awamutu
This was an goal event of Wades and he road strong races with a stage win in TA.

Now I have my selector hat on with the other two CNZ selectors to get teams for the worlds, Canada and Australia.

and the Prime Ministers Scholarship continues to take a big hunk of my time. Im going to be happy to finish this course this year.

winning continues

2008-04-10T19:17:00.000-07:00

Monique just back from a quick form finder at Xterra Australia, and she bought home the age group title and has qualified for Hawaii. This weekend we hope she adds the NZ title to the list.
She really is changing as an athlete quickly and there is a whole lot more to come.
Nina Pederson is also lining up in the pro event and hoping to head to the podium in a very competitive field. (Just quietly my pick will be Sonia Foote and Gen Mathews to fight it out)
Clinton is heading into one of the major goals of the season this weekend, the U23 Tour of Flanders. Last year he rode an impressive 5th place and we would like to see that bettered.
Logan is also hitting the tour of Gaverstreak and should be a good form indicator.
others are off at the NZ secondary schools MTB champs so good luck to them also.

March gone and april already

2008-03-31T22:37:00.000-07:00

well time is moving quickly again. Monique has become a Continental Champion winning the Oceania U23 title at Nelson. Clinton has been racing in South Africa and going quite well, Logan has started to show some form coming. April is going to be a good month too . Mon and Nina will be hitting the Xterra in Rotorua. And Mon is going to hit one is Aus for a hit out as well. Some big races in NZ for the juniors with The Tineli Tour, which I fully involved with. Followed by the TA tour. These are very important selection races for the worlds and a tour to canada.
The Waiariki MTB squad has been kicking along getting annual plans out of the way . And the PM scholarship work has ramped up again with course work and essays. So just another easy month coaching realy

and again

2008-02-24T11:53:00.000-08:00

Monique wins the open Short track national champs, great result cant wait for the Oceania Championships in a few weeks. And Patrick was third in open mens race, look out Clinton they are coming for you!!

Monique national champ

2008-02-22T22:36:00.000-08:00

well done Monique winning the U23 XC national title by a huge margin. Also pleasing was seeing guys I used to have a lot to do with again doing well, Great efforts by Stu Houltham and Sonia Hill to get back the national Titles that had in the past.

MTB is back on the plan

2008-01-30T13:44:00.000-08:00

well a new initiative has seen me return to coaching XC Mountain bike. The local polytech has started a scholarship scheme based around MTB racing and have asked me to lead the coaching of the team. So tomorrow we launch the Wiarariki MTB squad. This squad will have elite and non elite riders with the hope of getting the best performance and a degree out of them. It should be fun.

top results that

2008-01-25T01:42:00.000-08:00

great weekend at the National champs, I almost didnt take the 3 hour drive there are back on the friday just to watch the Clinton and Logan in the time trial, but Im glad I did as they both won!! wicked, 2 national champions in just on an hour. It was a happy home. The road races didnt go as well but were solid in the hot conditions, Clinton will never wonder what if? in a road race, I wish he would some times but he is learning to be patient as the races get longer and faster. Logan had a great race to finish 5th in a whos who of NZ racing, including protour riders.

good and not so good weekend

2007-12-11T15:37:00.000-08:00

Clinton won the Blue mountain Blast MTB race in Opotiki beating Mike Northcott by nine minutes, I think that Clinton has some form still. In the 1st round of the South Island series Ash Hough went down and won the U19 race. He will be doing both series this year, so its a great start. Monique Avery won the U19 race as well.

and the bad was Dan W ..........ski at the crit champs, was away with Gordy in break only to crash with 5 laps to go, race over and Gordy hung on to win.....it hurts.

I like it when people achieve their goals and are happy

2007-11-26T11:08:00.000-08:00

Hi shaun here as you know the race has been and did take part to achieve a time of 4:21.22 which is good I think as its only 1.22 off my old time so the question remains where to from here ???? as I have really enjoyed all the training and getting back in to the cycling so as it stands at the mo I want to do it next year but do the 4:00.00 mark maybe even break 4 hours what you think is this possible ?? I have attached my training sheet showing in colour what I did and what I didn’t do and first glance for me is there is heaps room for improvement as I missed a lot and the car crash didn’t help too but please look and see what you think and again a big big thanks for the program and helping me get back to some sort or fitness and really can only go up from here. Thanks so much and ill talk to you soon cheers again for the program and I look forward to your response

Thanks so much again for taking time out to do this program for me and getting off my ass to get to this point

Cheers shaun.s

great few weeks really

2007-11-12T16:12:00.000-08:00

First up the tour of southland, four riders were down there, Logan, Clinton, Dan and Ryan. Sickness hit Ryan and Dan, but Clinton came away with top U23 and 6th overall and Logan finished top team and 3rd overall. Not bad for a couple of underdone riders. Oceania will be very interesting. And back up here in Rotorua Wade Mangham has been ripping in up. He has just finished first in both the Bike the lake event and the Rotorua to Ohope. He is also heading down to Oceanias.

Monique Avery World Champion

2007-10-29T12:10:00.000-07:00

Fantastic result for Monique as she won the 15-19 Age class at the Xterra World championship in Maui yesterday. Her time would have won the next age class also, she will only get better at this game.

Junior Road Worlds report....will be in endurance mag soon

2007-08-22T13:38:00.000-07:00

Junior World Cycling champs

How I was looking forwards to nearly 5 weeks with a bunch of teenage boys…..It actually turned out way better than I had ever imagined. We have real talent in our cyclists and this trip did nothing but confirm it for me.

The plan was to get in some hard fast racing, followed by a bit of recovery and adjustment to altitude and then the Worlds competition itself.

Stage 1 was the tour or Abitibi in Quebec Canada. This is the only UCI junior race in Canada and had riders from nine countries on the start list. This invitation gave us a chance to take the riders selected for the worlds and give a chance to those likely to be there next year a bit of competition at a very high level. So joining Tom David, James Williamson, and James Dobson, were Wade Mangham, Josh Brown and Simon “horsey” Honor.

We really had no idea how this would pan out but what a fantastic race it turned into. It started with a 400m dual sprint as the prologue, won by the later to be world TT champ, Taylor Phinny, yes that Phinny son of Tour de France stage winner Davis, and 4 x world pursuit champ Connie. We had Ok finishes, but nothing to say we were about to light up the race…..

Next was the Team Time trial, we didn’t have specific TT rigs for every one, so the result was as we expected, close but not quite there. Come the next day and Tom David was on fire, jumping away on the last lap of the finish circuit to win the stage and take the leaders jersey, the best young rider, the Sprint and the KOM. He flowed this up the next day with a win in the TT. I have never seen a TT like it, it started under ground in a Gold mine, in the dark!!! and with a 17% climb to get out!!.

At this stage we also manage to pick up the teams classification also, so we had everything.

The nature of the race was that it was going to go down to sprint time bonuses to win, and we just didn’t have the speed of Phinny, so he just slowly took seconds off till he eventually got the lead back on the second to last day. So we ended having achieved the goal of a hard workout for the worlds guys and gave the others some experience in the biggest race of their lives so far, a 9 stage tour. This was an absolute bonus that we really were a factor in the race and the guys were just glowing with confidence when ever we hot the start line. It’s a nice feeling seeing that in a bunch of kiwi guys, and they were also extremely supportive of each other and a real team was developing over the week.

So we finished the tour with Tom in second, the team in second and a bunch of cash to split between the riders.

So from here it was down to Colorado Springs Olympic Training Centre, we would spend a week here just recovering and starting a build up of volume and intensity as the guys adjusted to the altitude. This is an amazing facility, with everything laid on. It is set up completely devoid of government funding, but funded though commercial sponsorship.

So Mexcio was the next stop, training done, it was race time. First up was the TT with James Williamson and Tom David. Poor James had the honour of leading the field away, not easy with no targets to follow, but he gave us good split times to gauge Tom off. Tom on the other had was 4^th from last away so we knew what it would take to get a good time. And Tom gave us one, finishing in 5^th place on a “flat” yeah right TT course. This was our best ever TT finish in the mens race from memory so we were very happy with this. Both riders were smashed at the end, just what a coach likes to see, an honest effort.

So the road race, 115 starter, on a hilly hot course. We were told it would be a bunch finish but on seeing it we could see the field would be blown all over it. And that’s how it turned out. The main bunch just got smaller and smaller until the last 2 laps of 8 when the Italian, attack and the bunch exploded. We still had Tom and James Williamson in the chase group but that was about to explode also. So the Italians rode on to a 1,2,3 finish…..Impressive to say the least. Tom finished in the next bunch in 21^st place, James was in the next bunch and by then it was just ones and twos surviving the course. Did I say it was Hot!!

So from a coaching point of view, what had we achieved, we had a team of extremely confident riders start the world champs. We had three riders leave Canada knowing that they could have been competitive if they were in world’s team and hungry for next year. We have qualified a full team for next year in South Africa and Tom the “Gentle Giant” has turned some heads.

Just have to thank the assistance of Mike Leach, our Kiwi mechanic in Canada and Jason Rico and Cassandra Carry for the assistance in Mexico.

John Lee

Junior Road Coach

2007 Junior Worlds are over

2007-08-14T17:03:00.000-07:00

taken from BikeNZ.org.nz

Bike NZ High Performance Director Mark Elliott said he was delighted with the results which were a credit to the initiatives put in place by Cycling New Zealand and Bike NZ. “The team was well prepared and performed strongly day-in and day-out which is a real credit to the coaching and management staff headed by head track coach Mike McRedmond and head road coach John Lee,” Elliott said.

Updates Late

2007-07-06T23:13:00.000-07:00

Well so much has been happening so this blog has been neglected a little. I have been busy with Work, coaching and study.
The post grad course papers has been a success with good passes in the first semester, EX PHYS and BIOMECHANICS.
Clinton has been on fire in Europe on the road, the win is just around the corner. His results so far are impressing people over there.
Logan, after a long rehab is now back on the bike and getting back to race form, still a month away but every day is better than it was a month ago.
I have managed the national Oceania road team to Canberra and Gold coast, and next week Im off with the Junior road boys to the tour Abitibi in Canada and the junior world champs in Mexico.
I will try and keep up with some news and photos while away.

yet another happy cyclist

2007-07-06T23:08:00.001-07:00

Hi John,

First road ride today since you looked at my set up. The new set up is awesome - you are the man!

It felt way more comfortable, no tightness in the back afterwards and it felt like a stronger riding position.

I will definitely be doing a lot more road riding now since it feels so good!

All the best for your overseas jaunt

Nina

great weekend

2007-04-15T01:51:00.000-07:00

Well the tour of Te Awamutu has been and gone for another year, Wade pulled a strong 7th place with some great stages. He will be very good next year as a 2nd year U19. At the XTERRA Eloise and Nina in the pro fields got 4th and 5th but Monique dominated the 18-24 age group with a great win and by a huge margin. At the Secondary Schools MTB championships Ash won the XC the hill climb and the overall to be NZ Secondary School Champion. And over in Belgium Clinton placed 4th is a kermese and picked up a bit of cash. So its a great weekend.

Rotorua Junior and womens tour

2007-04-04T14:03:00.000-07:00

I had a dream last year to host a race and target Juniors and also Women in an effort to bring more into the sport and also to develop them for harder challenges. Last year went so well the club backed the idea to make it a two day event. This year went even better with 120 riders in seven grades. pic is Monique Avery and the U19 and Elite women tour leaders.

news

2007-04-04T13:48:00.000-07:00

Clinton has started racing in Belgium and showing great promise, Logan is still having trouble with his knee and is not racing. Domestically Wade Mangham has made the road team to Aus with me, and the others are gearing up for XTERRA. Its a busy time along with the study I have commensed at Uni of Queensland. And I might even ride my bike today

Oceania Championships MTB

2007-04-02T13:18:00.000-07:00

well the news came back from Australia that Clinton has won again this time he is the U23 Oceania MTB championship. Now he is in Belgium and had his first race and by all accounts the team director now knows the gold that has arrived in his team:-)

Marathon champs

2007-03-10T23:31:00.000-08:00

well the news is coming in, Nina 2nd in the open women, and Ash winning the Junior mens section. So three of the four titles for the riders, well done guys and girls, love it when a plan comes together :-)

more adventures

2007-03-10T11:28:00.000-08:00

well its been a good week, I got a call from The High Performance Director of BikeNZ and was asked to be coach for the Junior Mens Road Team at the World champs this year. Of course I said yes right away as this is the direction i want to take my professional development over the next few year. I have also started back at University again doing a Post Grad Dip in Sports Coaching, 2 weeks in now and doing a lot of reading, first assignments due soon. Clinton and Monique are on winning form with National Titles in the MTB Marathon champs held yesterday, Im yet to get the report and how the others went.

Auckland National series XC races

2007-02-18T14:47:00.000-08:00

Well Clinton did it again, but the big gain was Nina Trass pulling second in the Pro-elite womens race, she really is starting to improve now. And Ash had a solid race for second in U19 and sitting 2nd in series over all. Moniques suffered froma crash early in the race and never got going, still 3rd place so not a complete disaster.

great weekend

2007-02-14T17:49:00.000-08:00

For the first time in a long time I could go to a mountain bike race without any official role. So it was great to roll up and watch Clinton and John Grays race. And to see the juniors where Ash and Monique haad won there races and Wade was third. It was fantastic to see Sonia back on the mountain bike, I think her first MTB race since the commonwealth games!!!!

What impressed me was the ease of Clintons win, the others were smashed after and Clinton was fresh as, and he won by 7 minutes. Also the UN19 Girls with moniques lap times faster than the U23 and all but the winner of the pro elite!!!!

NATIONAL CHAMPION

2007-01-27T23:23:00.000-08:00

Well done Clinton Avery off the back of an introduction to big time races at the tour Down Under, he has got the goal that we had fro last year, and will be wearing the National Champions jersey in Europe this year. So we have achieved 1/2 of the goals of summer after missing out on the U23 road race.
Monique Avery had a close race in the Junior to finish in second place.
In the tour of Wellington after a crap start Logan rode strongly to move up the GC and hold the KOM jersey for a while.

now its just time to start thinking about prep for the international season ahead.

things are moving along

2007-01-04T21:58:00.000-08:00

Clinton has just done the Tour of Vineyards as has Ryan Wills, both starting the year well with Clinton getting two 2nd places in the 4 stage race. He has had a bit of a cold so form is not 100% hopefully should be all go for next week at the Open Road Nationals. The Mountain Bike Boys and girls have been training hard uping the intensity in the final prep for the National MTB series.
and the sun is out.

happy camper

2006-12-27T20:23:00.000-08:00

I received this feedback from a set up I did earlier in the year

"Hi John, I’ve finally got around to remembering to email you about my bike setup you did, now ages ago! I just wanted to let you know that its great, has fixed my upper back pain, and is now really comfy.So thanks a million, I really appreciate it!
genevieve"

its good to know when people go away that you have made a difference.

December News

2006-12-25T14:16:00.000-08:00

Hi Things are starting to ramp up for the national Mountain bike series and the roadies have the elite nationals and the summer tours, Clinton and Logan have been selected for the Tour Down Under so best of luck to those two for what could be a huge event for them. They are both off to Belgium again next year with Logan starting in a new team Breveren 2000, and Clinton joining Logs old team of soenens germond they will be both racing some of the biggest u23 classics and we will see what the geeant can do on the roads to Roubaix.

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2006-12-25T13:58:00.000-08:00

This is my new Blog I am going to put information about myself coaching and those I coach here as the years develop.