Sam Bennett might have just finished his longest season to date in the professional peloton but the Irishman says he’d happily carry on racing. Bennett has been buoyed by a very successful season that saw him take five wins and finish his year off with a victory at last Friday’s Paris-Bourges.
“I’ve got such good form that I’m a bit disappointed that the season is over and I wish that there was another couple of months,” he told Cyclingnews a day before jetting off to the Maldives for his off-season holiday.
After knocking on the door of professionalism for a few years, Bennett has now completed his second season as a professional with the German-based Bora-Argon 18 team. When he lines up at his first race next season he will no longer be a neo-pro, he will be a fully-fledged, experienced member of the peloton. This year has been a big one for 24-year-old. While his number of victories is just one more than it was in his debut season in 2014, the quality of them has been higher. All but one of the five wins have been at HC level and his most recent at Paris-Bourges saw him beat riders such as Nacer Bouhanni and Giacomo Nizzolo.
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For Bennett, there is more to his success than just the quality and quantity.
“In other years, I never really got the consistency that I wanted or needed and it’s something that I always wanted to work on,” he explained. “When I did win is was always in close space, when I had a bit of form and I didn’t win at other times of the year. I look and think about what makes a good sprinter and they have to be able to get results all season long, when they’re feeling good and when they’re feeling bad. This year I was able to get results at different points of the year and that made me really happy.”
Bennett, who is 25 on Friday, believes that this consistency has been borne out of the stable environment provided to him by moving to Monaco, which allows him to train better in the warm weather.
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