Greg Henderson admits he is in a good space at the moment.
And why not ?
He is about to ride in the biggest cycle race of them all, he has just had some great personal news, and he has been named to go to the Olympics for a fifth time.
"The last weeks have been a massive emotional roller coaster for me. But now to hear I have been selected for the Olympics means three weeks in a row I have had good news," Henderson said.
"In the last week, I don't know how many texts, messages and interviews I have had to answer and that was before I've had official confirmation that I was going on the tour."
Henderson (35) was named earlier this month as part of the nine strong Lotto-Biesel team to tackle the Tour de France.
That event begins on Sunday morning and Henderson believes he can make an impact.
He will be lead-out rider for his side's key man, German rider Andre Greipel, and said the friendships in the teams would be a key.
"Andre and I are really good mates. We talk every day. But it is not only Andre. Guys like Jurgen Roelandts ... I'm rooming with an Australian, Adam Hansen, for three weeks.
"I'm going to be riding with team-mates but they are my friends. And that makes a massive, massive difference.
"Sure, you are going to have days when you get broken, and one day you're riding fast and then another day you're riding slow but you are going to be doing it for a friend.
"In teams prior to this year, I have just been doing my job. I would be the big lead-out man or work for the team. I was winning a lot of races, yet I would miss out in riding in the big show."
The previous two years, Henderson has ridden for Team Sky and lost out to British riders to ride in the Tour de France.
But not this year. He had been training hard and was in peak condition for the tour.
He had carried out three blocks of altitude training to get ready for the arduous 20 stage, 3497km tour.
His latest bout of training was close to home.
"I started altitude training in Colorado and did three and a-half weeks with my family.
"Then my mother-in-law got sick, so my wife and child had to go back to Australia immediately and I had to keep training. I went up to Andorra and did some work up there.
"Then the good news started happening. My mother-in-law had responded well to the chemo ... so with my third spell of altitude training I have just dragged the altitude tent into my living room. So it's like a bachelor pad now. If I'm not training, I can watch movies, do Playstation. I'm looking at sleeping 2000m to 2500m at altitude in my own home."
He would leave his Spanish training base in the next couple of days and head to Liege in Belgium where the tour starts.
Riding the greatest tour race of them all before the Olympics would be seen as too tough by most, but Henderson said it was ideal preparation.
"Ninety percent of the Tour de France peleton are going to be at the Olympics. Riding a grand tour, there is no other way to train your body. You just could not do it in training. Because the tour is so structured, as a sprinter you know what stages are coming up so you could have two days' rest. Having the tour before the Olympics is a massive advantage."
The Olympic road race is on the second day of the Olympics, and covers 245km around the centre of London. It is just a week after the end of the Tour de France.
He will be joined in New Zealand colours at the Olympics by Jack Bauer, of Nelson. Linda Villumsen, formerly of Denmark, will be the sole New Zealand representative in the women's race.
Hayden Roulston and Julian Dean are the reserves, should Henderson or Bauer be injured.
Henderson travelled with Greipel to check out the London course, and was happy with what he found.
It was set up for climbing sprinters, he said.
Many suggested the course had been prepared for British sprinter Mark Cavendish but Henderson was not so sure. He said Cavendish was not a natural climber and he was trying to get his body right for the course.
That would take time, but for Henderson the time is now.
"This is my fifth Olympics. The first two it was an experience. In 2004 I was expecting to win and was very disappointed to get fourth. Then last time I had personal problems. This year I do know what it is all about. I've been there, done that. I know what has to be done at this level."
