Twenty-year-old Dylan McKenna could hardly believe it when he discovered that he'd won the opportunity to ride with a trio of Katusha-Alpecin pro riders in a special Katusha Sports team at the 2019 Lexus Blackburn Bay Crits, running from January 1-3.
"I was at work on Christmas Eve, and found out on a group chat when someone said congratulations to me," McKenna tells Cyclingnews from Geelong, Victoria, ahead of the second race in the Bay Crits on Wednesday.
"I was a little bit shaky at work for the rest of the afternoon," he laughs. "I was, like, 'Hooley dooley!' It came out of the blue, and from there I've already done a couple of local newspaper interviews, but it's been really exciting."
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McKenna, of Castlemaine in Victoria, was joined by fellow winner Tom Chapman of Adelaide, South Australia, on the five-man squad with Nathan Haas, Alex Dowsett and Marco Haller, who ordinarily ride for WorldTour team Katusha-Alpecin, but are racing the Australian criterium series as Katusha Sports in a special kit that Haas helped to design.
Ahead of the first race in Geelong on the evening of New Year's Day, McKenna was thrust into the life of a pro rider as part of an experience he says he won't forget in a hurry, but which is a long way from over, as he'll ride all three of the criterium races.
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