Davison on Belgian winning run with Australia National Team
Kermesses and Tour de Korea part꧂💖 of track development program




It's been a little over three weeks since he arrived in a drizzly Gent, Belgium but the weather has done little to dampen the winning streak of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luke Davison who is♌ relishing his racing the kermesse circuit with members from the Aust🧸ralia National Track Team.
Davison has 'enjoyed' just a few rain-free days since landing earlier this month and has already accumulated a handy tally of wins in the kind of circuit races that helped forge his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:National Road Series title in 2012. Admittedly, the kermesses Davison and his teammates have been riding are more than twice the dis🙈tance of the usual one-hour criteriums that heavily feature in the NRS calendar.
"We are here to get some k's in the legs," Davison told Cyclingnews. "The NRS is great but onc🍌e you come to Europe there's such a depth and quality in the rac🍃ing. Instead of a 60k crit, it's 120k's."
However, there were some tough kilometres to endure before the start of Davison's already promising European trip with the fi𓆏rst stop at the Tour de Azerbaijan, where he experienced a tough five days of racing.
"It was a bit of an eye-opener. Most of us are used to racing the NRS or just one-day races. The first day was a flat stage that didn't rea♉lly test the legs too much - a lot of teams were holding back but on the second day every man and his dog wanted to be in ဣthe EB [early break] and we were racing like a pack of 16-year-olds. The next day had three or four Category 2 climbs and we all got spat. It was pretty tough, from there it was hard to recover."
Racing 770km in five days came as a bit of a shock for Davison but the experience is exactly what track coach Tim Decker wanted to achi🍸eve.
"After the second day we were all knackered. It's about learning to understand your body and then adapt to to racಞe over the full week. Tim has put emphasis on getting to know each other because track work is actually very individual a lot of the🌺 time.
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"In a team pursuit you are going full-bore and you can't help someone throu🌃gh it or race tactically with someone."
With three wins on the board Davison says it's much too earlier to start thinking about a professional contract for 2014 but with three more kermesses before flying out for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Korea, he🍷 says being able to win in the NRS and do the same in Europe certaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚinly doesn't hurt. The next step will be to demonstrate his winning capacity in the AsiaTour race that begins in a little over a week's time.
"I think it's important to win back home in the NRS but you need to show you can come to Europe and do the same. You get a bit more exposure being closer to the professional scene and even though it's at 🍷an amateur level it shows good signs.
"I have to continue to step up and Korea will be important to try and put a few marks up there🤡 on the scoreboard," added Davison in regard to the eight-stage, 1,077km tour.
After Korea Davison will fly back to Australia for a small break before hitting the boards in Adelaide for a Category-1 track meet ahead of his bigger objectives; the UCI Track World Cup, World Championships and Commonwealth Games. It'll be a busy back-end to the year for last year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Murray River winner who will squeeze in a numbe꧒r of NRS evꦑents racing for the Drapac squad in the latter part of 2013.
"I'm pretty happy with how things are going, we've got a good team here and some good facilities. It'll be a bit of a balance heading into later in ꦕthe year but I'll still ha𒉰ve Gippsland, Murray and South Coast."
The Tour de Korea begins on 6 June with a 172km stage from Cheonan to Muju. Professional Continental squads MTN-Qhubeka, Novo Nordisk and Champion System will line-up alongsi🅺de the Australia National Team𒁃 and a number of Continental and national teams.