Considering the year Rohan Dennis (BMC) has had, you might expect him to bask proudly in his achievements when offered the chance to reflect on the season just gone before the next one swings into life.
The 25-year-old won a stage and the overall at the Tour Down Under in January, broke the UCI Hour Record in February, led the Critérium du Dauphiné, won the opening stage of the Tour de France in record-breaking fashion, doubled up with the team time trial stage a week later, triumphed overall at the USA Pro Challenge, and capped it all with gold in the World Championships TTT.
Yet as he sits down with media in Denia, Spain, during BMC's winter camp, it becomes clear that the things he didn't achieve have haunted him to a far greater extent than his considerable successes have given him satisfaction.
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"A lot of people say 'oh you had a great year in 2015', and you can line up all the things I achieved, but there was a massive period from the Hour Record to the Dauphiné where I didn't get a win, and that was eating away at me," says the Australian.
"I look at the things I didn't achieve on my goals list, and find out why, and what I can do better. A lot of people look at the things they did achieve; I do look at them as well, but if you always beat you own drum and don't look at what you can improve on then you'll never actually go forward."
Dennis describes how the "massive high" of breaking the Hour Record was followed by a "huge low". He took a few days off the bike and found it hard to adjust mentally, returning to racing at Paris-Nice, where he missed out in the prologue – "that sucked to say the least" – before "battling" through the following races.
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