It's fair to say Hawke's Bay cyclist Hannah van Kampen had an emotional ride yesterday.
The EIT Bachelor of Sport and Recreation course student described her start to the day as "a bit gutting". Van Kampen was told her trip to Gallipoli had been cancelled.
"I had been selected in a New Zealand team to go to Gallipoli for a 78km road race around the coast of Gallipoli as part of the Centenary Celebrations for the Anzac Day Landings but the race has been cancelled because of security reasons; organisers felt it wouldn't be safe," Van Kampen said.
Some of that disappointment was erased yesterday afternoon when van Kampen, 21, won the 25km under-23 time trial on day one of the four-day Hawke's Bay-hosted club road nationals. She stopped the clock at 38m02s, the same time as her Ramblers clubmate Kerri-anne Page recorded on the way to her second placing in the elite women's section of the Puketapu-based event.
"I was pretty stoked with that as I'm still running on Thailand time," van Kampen said referring to her return from Thailand late on Tuesday night after finishing 18th on general classification in the 60-rider Tour of Thailand at the weekend.