Reno Altitude Training Camp At the end of a solid block of Californian races that included the Redlands Stage race and Sea Otter, it was time to do some serious climbing to prepare for the next two stage races, Tour of the Gila, New Mexico and Mt Hood, Oregon. Both of these stage races featured a lot of climbing at […]

The yellow jersey followed by the green jersey A week after Team TIBCO won two stages in New Mexico it was off to the mountains again.  This time we flew north to Portland, Oregon to race the Mt Hood Cycling Classic. The TIBCO team consisted of 5 riders including Lauren Franges, Helen Kelly, Rachel Heal, Victoria Bastide and Jo Kiesanaski.  […]

Training Blog – by Helen Kelly This week I have been training at altitude in Reno, Nevada in preparation for Tour of the Gila, in New Mexico.  I have been training with fellow team mates, Rachel, Laura and Amber.   I typically suffer for the first week at altitude so I was keen to train and sleep at altitude as ideal […]

Stage 4 – Nature Valley After resting from an all out individual time trial this morning, we loaded the vehicles and headed to stage 4, an evening criterium in downtown Minneapolis.  With 4 Webcor riders in the top 20, we wanted to race conservatively in the criterium and focus all our energy into moving up in GC in the final […]

Joe Martin Stage Race Stage 2 – 69 mile road race After yesterday’s bunch kick, there were only a few seconds separating most of the peloton.  The strongest opposition for us was Team Cheerwine and Aaron’s cycling team, both with a full squad competing in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  Together, they had 18 “redly clad” (Aarons and Cheerwine) riders following us about […]

Stage 3 – Redlands Centennial Bank Criterium By Helen Kelly (Webcor) In contrast to yesterday’s hilly stage that finished at 5000ft on the summit of Oak Glen, today’s stage was a fast and technical criterium held in downtown Redlands.  The course was 1.6km per lap with 9 tight corners. Before today’s race, Mara Abbott and Christine Thorburn (Webcor) were trailing […]

1 Amber Neban (USA) STAHL/SC Velo                                                     10.52.46 2 Christine Thorburn (USA) Webcor Builders                                             0.33.53 3 Dotsie Bausch (USA) Colavita/Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light                  0.42.06 4 Mara Abbott (USA) Webcor Builders                                                    0.54.47 5 Katharine Carroll (USA) Aaron’s Corporate Furnishings Cycling Team                   1.00.52 6 Katheryn Curi (USA) Webcor Builders                                                  1.00.73 7 Rachel Heal (GBr) Webcor Builders                                                    1.04.30 8 Oenone Wood (Aus) […]

Tour of the Gila, 2007 Stage 1 – 26km individual time trial I was really looking forward to the time trial today. My fitness has returned and the course is not purely a climbers course so I felt confident I could post a good time. I rode the course yesterday and felt really strong when I opened the system up […]

Redlands Classic, 2007 Stage 1 – Prologue – 5km Photo @ CJ Farquharson, WomensCycling.net The first stage of the Redlands Classic was a 5km uphill individual time trial. The first 800m was flat and then it was all uphill. I decided to use my road bike, Orbea Orca, with clip on carbon aerobars, along with extra light carbon Eastern Tempest […]

Quad Knopf Sequoia Valley Criterium On Sunday 18 March, I raced the Quad Knopf Sequoia Valley Criterium with 3 of my Webcor team mates, Amber Rais (USA), Rachel Heal (Great Britain) and Laura Yoisten (Canada). Amber and Rach both felt a little sore from the previous day’s time trial effort, however, after our warm up, we were all fired up […]