October 2025 Recap

Written By Kim Manunui

October was full focus on the lead up to the Track Cycling World Champs with a complete bunch focus. We had some incredibly hard training sessions with a lot of sprints, but they wee great preparation for racing.

At the World Champs, the elimination race had a number of crashes, which I was lucky to avoid. However, I was eliminated early, which was disappointing. but not due to a lack of fitness or strength, because my legs felt good, but due to a lack of experience in that particular event at such a high level.

A couple of days later, I raced the Madison with my teammate Sami. I was feeling really good in the first pat of the race, but unfortunately I go caught up in a crash and came down. After a quick check of my head and body, I was cleared to get back into the race and we finished 7th. It wasn’t the result we were after, but we had some great moments during the race and finished strong despite the crash.

My final race was the points race. I wen into it with absolutely zero expectations. My legs felt good and I was racing smart. I found myself in the lead with 20 laps to go after winning several sprints and lapping the field twice, but the fatigue hit hard and I went into survival mode, unable to chase down the riders who finished ahead of me. I thought I’d finished 5th and felt extremely disappointed, until my coach told me I’d actually got 3rd. I felt so relieved and happy.

It was my first ever bunch race medal at a World Champs, and everyone said it was such an exciting race and the best they had ever seen me race in a bunch event.

A week later, I raced the final criterium of the Copec Crit series in Chile with my teammate from Fearless Femme Racing. I still seemed to have my speedy points race legs, winning both the intermediate sprints and the final sprint to take the win!

Bryony Botha

Current location: Hamilton, NZ

October Training Stats:

Kilometers cycled on the road: 1,463

Total hours spent training: 70hrs 41mins

  • Road cycling: 56hrs 2mins

  • Gym: 6hrs 20mins

  • Track: 8hrs 19mins

Results

7th - Madison - Track World Champs

3rd - Points Race - Track World Champs

1st - Copec Criterium

 
Kim Manunui

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