Dominique Mayho is enjoying a welcome break back home, but there will not be any time to put his feet up as he prepares for the upcoming NatWest Island Games in Gotland, Sweden later this month.

Mayho flew back on Wednesday night and will be back in action tomorrow morning when he competes in the Bicycle Works Time Trial on North Shore, Pembroke.

The island’s top rider will also get to compete in the Bermuda National Time Trial Championships next weekend at Southside before flying out with the Bermuda team to the Island Games four days later.

“It’s good to get back, but the humidity has been killing me lately, but I’m getting adjusted to it,” said Mayho who has spent the season riding with amateur club Asfra Racing Team Oudenaarde in Belgium. He returns to Belgium in July to complete the season which ends in September.

“My season has been going pretty well so far, racing a lot with some high-quality racing and finishing in the top half of the races so I feel pretty strong,” he said.

“My team leader has been getting a lot of podiums and actually won the other day. It’s been a good season for the team. We have about 20 guys on the team, mainly the same five or six who race all the time.”

Up-and-coming pair Matthew Oliviera and Kaden Hopkins, both 17 and students at Warwick Academy, have been establishing themselves as two to watch in local cycling in the last year, with Hopkins winning a first May 24 Sinclair Packwood Memorial Race winner after edging out defending champion Oliveria in a sprint finish.

Their inclusion in the Bermuda team alongside Mayho for the Island Games gives Bermuda a real hope of winning a medal during competition in the time trial, road race and criterium. Mayho is looking forward to seeing how far the pair have progressed when they compete tomorrow.

“It’s amazing to watch them grow in the sport, this is the first time we’ve had two cyclists at the same sort of level competing with each other so it is raising their games,” said Mayho, only a few years older than the pair at 23. “It’s pretty good to see.

“At the Island Games they are going to be able to help me so that’s going to be good. We’ll be competing in the time trial, road race and criterium.

“I’ll be doing the time trial [on Sunday], blowing out the legs and see how I feel,” he said. “Then we have the National Championships next weekend and that’s the one I really want to do well in.”

In Gotland, Mayho will compete with Oliviera and Hopkins in the road race while Adam Kirk and Deshi Smith are the two mountain bike competitors. The women’s road race team is made up of Alyssa Rowse, Zoenique Williams, Nicole Mitchell and Gabriella Arnold.

Mayho represented Bermuda at the Pan American Road Cycling Championships in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in early May, placing 35th in a gruelling 170-kilometres race, achieving his main objective of just competing in the event after racing in the senior category for the first time.