Mathew Hayman has been competing in world championships since 1996 as a junior and raced at the elite level for 15 years at the UCI Road World Championships. On Sunday he will be Australia's road race captain and will look to help Michael Matthews win the rainbow jersey for the first time.
Cyclingnews headed to the Australian team hotel two days before the race to sit down with Hayman and preview the 267.5km course.
Cyclingnews: What's your overall impression of the route?
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Mat Hayman: There's always to and fro over how the race is going to play out in the final days before Worlds. Bergen is obviously is a beautiful place but the course itself is both long and hard. The length means that any kind of climb that's thrown into the mix is going to make a difference. For the fans that's excellent because it's going to make for exciting racing and having just watched the U23 race, I was on the edge of my seat.
CN: Is there anything you can learn from watching the race that you couldn't pick up from recon?
MH: What I've seen so far is that groups can come and go and then come back at any moment. From watching the U23 race I was actually trying to see if there was anything I could learn about the course that wasn't apparent from the reconnaissance. So, for example, I was looking how far back people were at certain points and how much sprinting they had to do when coming out of corners before things in the peloton bunch back up. It was a bit hard to tell because they had some rain and there's a good chance that we'll race in the dry. It's all part of the build-up.
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