Sean Lake made his National Road Series (NRS) debut just over 12-months ago at the Melbourne to Warrnambool winning what is regarded as Australia's toughest race on the calendar, the Grafton to Inverell the next week. 2015 would be Lake's first full season on the bike having previously competed at international level with the U23 Australian rowing team and showed he is no one trick pony as he became the first rider to win back-to-back editions of the race.
The 23-year-old will ride in the blue colours of the Avanti Racing Team for 2016, explaining to Cyclingnews it was a "no brainer" to sign on for the number NRS team for five years running.
"Avanti is definitely the place to go to get to the next level and reach your potential and the team has such a great track record of churning out riders and taking people like me and managing to get them to the next level so it was a no brainer that it was the right place for me to go and I am really excited for it," Lake said.
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Lake kicked off his first full season at the Australian national championships in January, followed up by the 1.1 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and 2.1 Jayco Herald Sun Tour in February with his Continental African Wildlife Safaris team. As a relative newcomer to the sport, Lake described both events as eye openers getting his first taste of a peloton containing WorldTour and Pro-Continental teams.
"I was really fresh in terms of learning for Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the Jayco HeraldSun Tour and it was a great experience to ride with and against those WorldTour guys. I was feeling alright in the Cadel Evans Race but ended up getting caught in a crash at a roundabout with a couple of the Orica GreenEdge guys and that was day over," he said. "Herald Sun Tour was my first real proper tour that I've done and it was a massive learning experience. I was trying to get into the break each day but couldn't quite manage to do that. I was really happy one-day with a decent lead out but it was just real small baby steps at that time of the season."
Asked if there any specific lessons learned at the Sun Tour, Lake answered the learned a few secrets to making a break stick.
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