Matthew Woods

• born:

  16th January 1992

• team:

  Team Monturano

• sponsors:

  Monturano-Civitanova.m-Cascinare

• Racing base:

  Italy

• home town:

  Sedgefield

• nickname:

  Woodsy

• likes:

  All sports, watching films and going out with friends

• dislikes:

  reading and having nothing to do

• favourite rider:

  Alberto Contador

• favourite race:

  GiroBio

• If money was no object what would be the first thing you would buy:

  Collection of James Bond Astin Martins

• What do you do when not racing:

  Go out with friends or watch films, when I'm not training

• Race history:

  Started riding my bike when I was about 13/14. My first races where just Time Trials untill I was about 15. Then I started doing Cat A and junior road races. After juniors I moved here to Italy to try the under 23 raod races.

   

  Is the the first time you have had support from the DRF? 

  No, this will be the second year I have received Dave Rayner Funding

   

  What is your cycling history ?

  I have now been cycling for 6/7 years as I started when I was 14. I was introduced to cycling by my Mum and Dad, because we were looking for a new sport to do as we were all runners before. I am now not a member of any club in the UK, but I have been a member of Stockton Wheelers, Westbrook Cycles, and Adept precision.

   

  What team are you joining in 2013? Tell us a bit about you team?

  In 2013 I will be riding for Team Monteurano. It is an Elite/Under23 team based in Italy. The aim of the team is to develop rides year by year. We try and do all the big U23 races in Italy like the GiroBio and other important one day and multi stage races.

   

  What is your race programme looking like?

   My race programme starts the first weekend of March this year and ends mid-October. We race about once or twice a week, but there are some weeks with three races. We start off with local races for the first month and then build up as the season progresses.

   

  Are you going on a training camp with the team? 

  Sometimes we have training camps If we have a big race coming up we will go and stay nearby so we can training on the terrain we will be racing on.

   

  When are you heading out to Europe? 

  I head out to Italy the first week of January, as the team do all there preparation together. This helps the training as we can push each other that bit further, and it makes things much easier with the team car following you.

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