After breaking his collarbone, Alex Dowsett had to put off his attempt at the Hour Record, initially scheduled for February 27. But that hasn’t deterred the 26-year-old Brit, who hasn’t abandoned hope, and wants to finally make an attempt in April.

“Everyone is trying their hardest and we’re fairly confident we can pull it together,” Dowsett told Cycling Weekly. “Once you get good form, it’s easy to keep it ticking over and I tried to do that as best I could during the collarbone break.”

“I had a two hour track session last week and during the last hour I was hitting some decent numbers again and starting to feel my normal self, so it would be a shame not to do the attempt in April,” he added.

“We’re already a fair way down the road in terms of our preparation for it. It will happen, it’s just whether it happens sooner rather than later.”

While the collarbone break isn’t something Dowsett wanted, he now is able to prepare to match and better current holder Rohan Dennis’ pace, something he wouldn’t have known if he made the attempt in February as his attempt as so close to Dennis’, he wouldn’t have been able to train for it.

“Now I know exactly what I need. I need 17.1 second laps, basically. We just know that’s what we need to do to beat the record so that’s what we can train for effectively,” he said.