Roger you are doing great, with your English...hall of a lot better than I would with your native language.

I know you are young, from the sound of it in decent shape and clearly have the desire. Here is my suggestion: Train your butt off and do junior races in your area. At the same time you should stay in school and keep your options open in case cycling doesn't work out. If you have the right stuff it will work itself out, you will dominate your level and people will say race at the next level and so on. If this isn't happening then you either aren't working hard enough or you don't have what it takes...only you can know which it is. If you don't make it and are still getting some sort of education you are fine and all you did was have some fun and get yourself into great shape.

I am not sure how much of our news you get in your country but there is a sports news tragedy (well not really a tragedy but...) in the news in the US. Several years ago there was a star running back who led his college (Ohio State) to a national championship as a freshman. He was to be the next great running back, making millions of dollars in the NFL when he went pro. Well the NFL has a rule that you have to be out of high school for 3 years before you can join their league so this player (Maurice Clarett) had to play in college a couple more years...but there was a problem there. Clarett didn't both with school, he took money from boosters and was thrown out of school. Clarett then sued the NLF for the right to come out early...he lost that. In the mean time his time went by so he declared himself eligible for the NFL draft last year. In the 2 years he was out of college but not in pro football he didn't train like he should have, he got slow and he got fat. He did get drafted but was cut in the preseason from an NFL team. In the last week he was arrested for holding someone up to steal a cell phone from them...he is in jail now. So now Clarett has no education, isn't good enough to play professional football and has a criminal record...his life isn't going to be so good because he took is natural talent for granted and made a bunch of stupid choices.

Don’t be the next Clarett, get your education and if you decide to race and want to make a living at it never take it for granted...you could always be stealing cell phones.