Former world and US national champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amber Neben will race a primarily gravel progra💮mme in 2022 as she sets her sights on new challenges and disciplines in the next phase of ☂her career.

Neben spent 2021 focusing on preparing for the time trials at the Tokyo Olympics and the World Championships in Belgium, where she came fifth and fourth respectively. After a long and decorated career on the road, Neben says her focus will shift g😼oing forward.

“I love riding my bike, and the gravel world was an open door,” she said. “It looks fun and welcoming. It's a new challenge and definitely gets me very uncomfortable! It keeps me connected to cycli🏅ng and introduces me to a whole new world of riders.

“It gives me space to shift gears from wh🐻at I've done for twenty plus years to what I'm going to be doing more of as I go forward.”

Neben confirmed that her programme will include the newly-launched 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Life Time Grand Prix series - which includes events such 🔯as💛 UNBOUND Gravel and has a $250,000 prize purse - as well as Rebecca's Private Idaho and potentially Garmin Gravel Worlds, in Nebraska. 

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Shasta Gravel Hugger in Northern California on Saturday marked Neben’s gravel racing debut, an experien🐼ce she described as like “being a rookie all over again” but overall positive.

&ldqu🦂o;It was an awesome first time ride and race experience!” she said. “The organization, set up, course marking and safety was excellent. The views were amazing and the people I met were super cool. I am definitely going back.”

Though enthusiastic about riding and raciಞng gravel this year, Neben was also clear that she wants to balance her ambitions with her life and values off the bike, which includes coaching, inspiring and challenging others, and building a “virtual discipleship community”.

“One of my big passions i🥀s challenging people to do hard stuff,” she said. “I love how the championship intangibles, like PX4 [Neben’s mantra of perseverance, patience, perspective and power], can be developed through sport and🌳 then transferred to all phases of life. I want to help people become champions, overcomers. The gravel world is full of championship making moments.”

From a racing perspective♎, Neben is realistic about her level and will focus꧟ on building her level on gravel this season.

&l🌠dquo;I honestly have so much to learn. My skill set is so far behཧind,” she said. “On the bike, this year my goal is to continue to improve, learn, and persevere.

“Off the bike, my goal is to continue to grow in my faith with the Lord and help other🎐s grow in theirs and develop the inside out strength to survive and thrive in sport and our crazy world.”