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 […]

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 […]