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A day removed from claiming his maiden U23 National Criterium title over a 30-lap, 33km course in downtown Ballarat, Caleb Ewan, the only NSWIS cyclist in the 65-rider field, has already put his dominating performance on Thursday behind him and is intently focused on the task at hand – taking the 2014 Australian U23 🧔Na✱tional Road Race Championship.

 "You can't really let yourself be satisfied with that," said the 19-year-old told who scored eight victories in Europe last year, before signi💞ng a pre-contract with Orica-GreenEdge in October. "My mind is already 🃏set on the road race on Saturday."

 Ewan, who finished fourth at the U23 World Road Race Championships in Florence last September, knows that capturing a second national title in as many days𝔍 will be no easy task.

"I will have to approach the road race like I did the criterium," Ewan told Cyclingnews. "I can't go in the early moves as I have to conserve my energy as it🅰 will be a hard race, and the heat will not do us any favours. With three laps to go everybody will be hurting and then you have to put the hammer down. It's a lottery."

The 2012 World junior road race silver medallist was pleased with his performance following th🍸e failed defence of his 2013 Bay Cycling Classic title to start the new year. Ewan managed just one win on the final stage in Williamstown, Victoria following a nasty training fall five days prior.

"I am feeling 100 percent," said Ewan. "I was really disappointed last year with how the nationals went, especially after a really successful Bay Crits. I didn't really go as well at Bay Crits this year, but I’ve already captured a national title in 2014 so I am really happy 𒐪with how things are going and I’m looking forward to seeing how things unfold tomorrow."

GreenEdge's contract with Ewan, who is riding for Jayco-AIS at the nati🌱onals, is effective from January 1 2015 to the end of the 2016 season.