Daz will never know this now but he was the yardstick against which I measured myself in races - if I finished even close to him then I knew I must be having a blinder. Can't say I really knew him that well - met him a few times - but he was quite obviously a guy who loved his sport, trained hard, but even though he was at the sharp end of races remembered that it was all about having fun. Though I suspect if I had told him that he was someone I sought to emulate he would have told me to stop being so daft.