Fresh from his first race of 2013 and his first as a professional rider, Aaron Buggle has said his maiden outing in Australia for Rapha Condor JLT was a very fast opener.
“I thought I’d ridden crits before,” he said after the opening race in the Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic three-race series in Geelong, near Melbourne, yesterday.
“It was fast, hectic, no chance to switch off. I did more than 80 efforts over 1,200 watts; stuff you can't replicate in training really.”
“For my first race I felt good and I was there or there abouts until a crash split what was left of the group after 30 minutes or so. Myself and my teammate Richard Handley got caught out and were stuck in the chase group while Kristian House was ahead riding very strong.”
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“We chased and held the group at the same gap for ages but heads dropped and that was that after about 45 minutes of the one hour race. I’m looking forward to the next few days now after getting the first race out of the way and looking forward the Sun Tour later in the week, it should be a lot of fun.”
He said he feels he has fitted in well at his new UK-based Continental team.
“The bike is perfect, it fits like a glove. Everything is so well organised and people really know what they’re doing. I only know the lads a week but I feel at home already. Everybody has there own personality and the mixture of experienced and not so experienced riders seems to be working out well. Being around guys like Kristian in the team is cool and I'm like a sponge at the moment trying to pick up new things and learn fast.”
Buggle and his team mate and fellow Irish international Felix English were due to ride the second race in the series in Portarlington today, Wednesday, before finishing off the series tomorrow in Williamstown. They then start the Herald Sun Tour the same evening in Williamstown with a 4.8km prologue TT, followed by three road stages on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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