north east regional extra | April 19 - 25, 2023
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Cycling to the world Hall of Fame By CHLOE JAENICKE
ALAN Nelson is a committed cyclist with the massive goal of being inducted into the International Cycling Union‘s (UCI) cycling Hall of Fame. According to Mr Nelson, he only needs one more UCI championship to be inducted into the UCI Hall of Fame and is determined to do so this year in Glasgow. “If I get another UCI championship, actually, I‘m going to reframe that, when I get another UCI championship, I will go into the hall of fame,” he said. Alan raced superbikes from when he was 17 years old until he was 31, when his first child was born and he moved on to racing in triathlons. He returned to cycling when he was 41 but suffered from chronic fatigue, which stopped him from competing for three years. “It was one of those mystery things where haematologists say, ‘the good news is we can‘t find anything, and the bad news is we can‘t find anything and it‘s probably some kind of virus,” Alan said. “It more or less ran its course, but looking back it was from overtraining and not getting in enough recovery, which everyone has identified as critical and just as important as the training part these days.”
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◆ CYCLING CHAMPION: Alan Nelson training for the upcoming world championship in Glasgow. PHOTO: Kurt Hickling
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