The Cyclist Psyche – Chloe Hosking From Team Hitec Products

New for the 2013?season is our Cyclists Psyche survey. A standard interview about a riders form and target races will get you a standard answer. Only here will you find out what type of dinosaur a rider is, and what they will do to someone who scratches their bike! Today we meet our own Aussie pro who is lighting up the world of women’s cycling, including wearing the yellow leaders jersey in the 2013 Ladies Tour of Qatar, Chloe Hosking! Name:?Chloe Hosking? Team: Hitec Products?(@Hitec_Products) Riding Role: Sprinter? Age: 22? Weight: 60kg? Physical condition profile? Still feeling the off season (Jan) – Killing life in the Spring (March/April) – Suffering through the Giro (June/July) – Rebuilding for worlds (Sep/Oct) – OFFIE! (Dec)? How would people describe you as a cyclist?? Fiesty.?? How would someone who likes you describe you as a person?? Hopefully that I’m good fun and always up for a laugh.?? How would someone who doesn?t like you describe you?? Probably that I’m obnoxious…? What are the 3 things more important to you than anything else?? Family, my dogs and friends.?? You end up replacing Tom Hanks in ?Castaway? on an Island for 4 years. What are the 3 things you take with you and why?? See above.?? You can have dinner with anyone you want. Who would it be?? Right now, stuck on the other side of the world from my family I would have to say…Paris Hilton.?? Someone scratches your newly arrived race bike. Do you:?

1. Kill them?
2. Kill them in an extremely creative way?
3. Plan to kill them in an extremely creative way after getting close to them, researching their weaknesses and then striking when they least expect it?
4. Tell them not to stress, it?s only a bike: the sponsors are paying for it?

On a training ride do you:?

1. Load up on coffee before you go?
2. Load up on coffee before you go and during the ride?
3. Load up on coffee before you go, during the ride and stop for more at the end at your favourite coffee haunt?
4. WADA is following my caffeine levels closely so I can?t answer that question until after the findings are returned?

You?re a dinosaur. Are you:?

1. A Monstrous Quadrosaurous?
2. A Skinnius Soclimbus?
3. An Allroundus??
4. A Helpus Everyonelseus?

The phone rings at 6am. Do you 😕

1. Answer it immediately with a chirpy uplifting welcoming response?
2. Answer it after it rings for a full minute with a chirpy uplifting welcoming response?
3. Let the answering machine take the call for you?
4. Answer it immediately so you can find out exactly who wants to ring you at this un-godly hour and then plan their ultimate demise?

What?s more important to you:?

1. Finishing household chores?
2. Getting others to finish the household chores for you?
3. Getting others to finish their household chores and then your household chores?
4. Resting?

What are you most opinionated about and why?? We all know the answer to this one…? If you had the power to change one thing in the cycling world, what would it be?? We all know the answer to this one…? Who do you admire most and why?? Not a big ‘idol’ person. But I have enormous amounts of respect for my former teammate Ina Tuetenberg?and take any advice she offers onboard.?? Who do you ?have difficulties with and why?? Mum when she moves my things. Because I never ?forget where I put things…? What do you want people to know about you?? I’m awesome.?? If you weren?t a cyclist what would you want to be?? Anything that allowed me to live?in New York City.