HPCC-11141 Revision after comments

Signed-off-by: jamienoss <james.noss@lexisnexis.com>
Merge pull request #5637 from jamienoss/issue11141-startCycles-unitialised

HPCC-11141 Uninitialised-warning of startCycles

Reviewed-By: Gavin Halliday <gavin.halliday@lexisnexis.com>
Reviewed-By: Jake Smith <jake.smith@lexisnexis.com>
Reviewed-By: Mark Kelly <mark.kelly@lexisnexis.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Chapman <rchapman@hpccsystems.com>