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 […]