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Why do you ride: Love all kinds of bikes. Enjoy competition and going fast.
What/who started you racing: I have always been interested in bikes. After going to watch a local MTB I got hooked, bought a decent bike and started to race. Weakness: Very short races, positioning on 1st lap. Marital status: Single Most important people in your life and career: Mum and Dad, and Gary Foord have helped me a great deal over the past few seasons. Racing since: 1995 Professional since: 2003 Best part of racing: Winning! Hardest part: Finding the balance between lots of long travel, training and diet. Best moment in career: Winning the 2006 Commonwealth Games Gold. Worst moment in career: Suffering a debilitating viral illness for most of 2007. General career goals: Medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, and Elite World Championship title. Favourite food: I am really into cooking and enjoy most food. Favourite reading: Biographies especially of rock stars. Favourite music: Rock and Blues. Best idea of having good time: Going skiing, fun MTB ride with friends and riding my motocross bike.
Favourite place to travel to: I like spending time in America. California and Colorado are great places to ride and race. I also really like to ski, especially in the Alps. I enjoyed my stay in Australia and would like to go back there sometime for a real vacation. Most respected mountain bike riders: Thomas Frischknecht and Ned Overend. Other most respected athletes: XC skiers, top motocross riders. Favourite riding spots and courses: Courses, I like Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada and Fort William, Scotland. I also enjoy Colorado. There are great trails in Durango that are fun to ride. Advice to beginners: Set realistic goals, work on your weaknesses and take a rest day before you get too tired. Other sports: Skiing, gym, running. Other interests: Cooking, playing my guitar and music. If I was not a professional mountain biker… maybe I’d have been a musician like my Dad, who’s a guitarist. Training in race week: Mon: Recreation, Tues:2.5-3hrs tempo, Wed:3hrs hilly, Thursday off, Fri:1.5hrs fun off road, Sat: course inspection, Sun: race. Training secret: Treat a training ride a bit like a race i.e. prepare kit day before, have a fun ride if getting fed up with structured stuff. |
Name: Liam KilleenThis is me
Date of Birth: 12 April 1982
Location: Malvern, United Kingdom
Professional since: 2003
“The essential thing is to have a goal, a strategy to reach it, and importantly, some way to analyse what's going on”