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 […]

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 […]