Central Valley Classic My first race in California was the Central Valley Classic, in Fresno. Here is what happened. Photo @ CJ Farquharson, WomensCycling.net Road Race Result – 54th 108km Sunny, 17C I arrived in San Francisco four days ago and am almost sleeping normally, although a time change of 16 hours usually takes me at least 7 days. Fortunately […]

Geelong World Cup, 2007 My first race for the 2007 season was the Geelong world cup, held in Victoria, Australia. After only being back on the bike for 6 weeks I was certainly a little apprehensive about my level of fitness but definitely very excited to be back racing again. The forced rest for 3 months certainly made me realise […]

Quad Knopf Sequoia Valley Criterium Report by Webcor rider, Helen Kelly (Australia). 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 […]

Nature Valley Grand Prix – Stage 1 – St Paul’s Downtown criterium The 2007 Nature Valley Grand Prix kicked off with an evening criterium in downtown St Paul’s.  With humid conditions but no rain, 125 women fought it out in an aggressive and fast 1 hour criterium.  The course was 1km in length in the shape of an L with […]

The day dawned in spectacular fashion.  As we enjoyed an early breakfast, making the most of the sunlight hours, we looked off the porch of our lovely Seven Springs condo into a forest from which the fog rose is beautiful billows.  Amber noticed what we thought was the final pink cloud of the sunrise, but really it was the SUN, […]

Le grand tour du Montreal – Stage 1 – 110km circuit race Today we raced stage 1 of the Le grande tour du Montreal.  The course was a new addition to the tour and after studying the circuit in the race bible, I knew that we were in for a hard race. The course was mostly flat p around the […]

Yesterday was the Montreal World Cup—and its elevated international status seemed not to matter in the high quality riding of this team!  The race was a 10km circuit with about featuring a mile climb up Mt Royal, and a hairpin turn going into the finish, during which we rode on the wrong side of the road.  We hoped that the […]

Stage 4 –  Gila criterium Webcor’s overall position in Tour of the Gila was dominating as we lined up for the 26 mile criterium in downtown Silvercity.  Mara Abbott was wearing the pink leader’s jersey, Rach Heal was 2nd in GC, Amber Rais 5th, whilst Helen Kelly, Bev Harper and Laura Yoisten were all looking strong and working hard to […]

2006 Women’s Road World Cup – Open de Suède Vargarda IRM Rang BIB Code UCI NOM / Prénom Code équipe Temps/Ecart IRM Rank BIB UCI Code LASTNAME / First Name Team Code Time/Gap 1 51 SWE19760316 LJUNGSKOG Susanne BFL 3:11:56 2 1 GBR19830413 COOKE Nicole UPT 3 34 SWE19840515 HOLLER Monica BCT +0:00:25 4 76 GER19810928 WORRACK Trixi NUR +0:00:28 […]

Preparing for the worlds, 2006 Training in Koflach, Austria in preparation for the World Champs 2006. So now that I am back in good health, I have found time to tell you about my “2006 worlds experience”. Preparation for making the Australian Team With a sensational aussie team contribution to Oneone’s bronze medal in the 2005 World Champs, making the […]