on a sabbatical, last competitive race about a year ago.
The pro keirin thing never got going, he had a year off to prepare for that, was in great form and then got ill a few weeks before nationals and went 0.04s seconds slower than his best, so he was a bit disillusioned by it all.
A decent job offer came up at a trading firm in their IT department so he took that and has been there 18 months. Good salary but longish hours & a commute leaves little time to get the amount of training in he needs to do to compete at that level so something had to give
Joined the new David LLoyd in Church langley and has done 3 peaks challenge this year, replaced his psycho bird with a new one who seems on the level, so he's just enjoying other things without the pressure of competition.
we still ride occasionally, hope he will go back to it at some point in some form but got to be his decision
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