Good sensations

Ben Day is on a high after a few wins (FlyV)

Ben Day rides for Team Fly V Australia presented by Successful Living Foundation.

I can see now that I needed the Tour of California for my form at the Tour of California.

You can’t just go to without any races in your legs and expect to get results.

But I have come out of California well….really well. I feel great in training and I have had five wins since then.

The weekend after California I went to relax with my friend Johnathan in Las Vegas for a few days and I competed in the Callville Bay Classic, where I won the prologue and secured the overall GC.

After that, I finally got to go home to Boulder, Colorado, a place I love dearly, where I spent some quality time training hard and trying to get my weight down.

And it worked! My numbers went up and my weight went down and I started beating all the old training records that I have had in Boulder in the past few years.

I put this down to going back to coaching myself.

During my career I have worked with some great coaches, all of whom brought different assets to the table.

Now I feel I have a great grasp of what a cyclist needs to do to go fast and to enjoy their cycling to the fullest.

This is why I have turned my hand to coaching. I have worked with a couple of athletes for the past year or so, but I recently launched my business, DayByDay Cycle Coaching.

In doing this, I have found that I am not only able to help others progress through the sport, I am able to discover more things about myself and to try little tweaks here and there.

Coaching and training is definitely an art, and there is no black and white training method for anyone.

So here we are. On the eve of the Redlands Bicycle Classic, a race with a long prestigious history in the US.

Redlands will see riders like BMC’s Jeff Louder and Scott Nydam, Neil Shirley and 2007 winner Andy Bajadali of Kelly Benefits Strategies.

You can also add Bissell’s Ben Jacques-Maynes, OUCH’s Floyd Landis and Rory Sutherland, plus 2005 winner Chris Wherry.

I feel confident after winning a criterium in Boulder two weekends ago, and the San Dimas Stage Race just this past weekend.

In San Dimas my team Fly V Australia presented by Successful Living worked hard to defend my lead until the final stage.

I did just enough to claim overall race honours from Jelly Belly’s Phillip Gaimon and Rock Racing’s Chris Baldwin.

Our Italian connection Alessandro Bazzana assured the San Dimas race would be a lucrative affair for the team, racking up the sprint points over the three days and the Green Jersey.

Jono Cantwell started to really show his true potential with a win in the final criterium, after riding hard for me the whole stage.

His lunge on the line saw him beat out Sebastian Haedo (Colavita) for second and John Murphy (OUCH) for third.

As our Team Director Henk Vogels said, “We knew he had the speed to be competitive at this level, he just needed to back himself.�

I hope to see us repeat some of this success here.

Team Fly V Australia are on a high. With all of the hard work put in, we are starting to go places.