Hayden Godfrey ready to return

By NZPA

Former omnium world champion cyclist Hayden Godfrey, originally from Hokitika, is scheduled to return to road racing next Saturday after a nine-month injury break.
Godfrey was knocked off his bike
while training almost a year ago, sustaining injuries which cost him a
place in the national squad for the world track cycling championships in Denmark last March.
Ongoing problems and niggling
injuries hampered his training and
racing for most of last year, meaning Godfrey was forced to make himself unavailable for the New Delhi Commonwealth Games.
But he now feels ready to test himself with his Subway pro cycling team in the 120km Rev Classic in Hamilton on February 19.
“After last year’s crash I tried to rush back too quickly to try and make the world champs team and then things just unravelled,” Godfrey said. “But it did allow me to focus on other things, and I’m really looking forward to being back on the start line of a road race.”
Godfrey’s team for the Rev Classic also includes Commonwealth Games medallist Jason Allen, experienced cyclists Paul Odlin and Sam Horgan, and Matt Gorter, who is continuing to build form and fitness after illness kept him off the bike for the second half of last year.
Subway cyclists Westley Gough and Pete Latham are competing for New Zealand in a World Cup track cycling event in Manchester and are not available.
The Rev Classic is a key race for
Subway team as it builds for its first international race of the year in Singapore in early March.