Getting down to the last couple of days of the trip...Today was the start of our last Tour. The Nicole Reinhart Memorial Tour. Today we had a 4.2mile (7km) TT in the morn followed by a 20mile (round 35km) road race a few hours later. Not a massive day, but it was still going to be a challenge.
Rocked up with plenty of time to spare and started the old warm up on the trainer...It was an undulating TT so if i was going to do alright at any TT, it was gong to be this one. Didn't feel the urge to ride aerobars since it was so short and hilly so just ran the zipps. I was off last because we were late entries and I was chasing Brodie. Felt alright after the warm-up and was at the start line in time to see the girls roll off. The start was sorta downhill so i whacked it in the big dog chain ring for the start and did some mass track start lol..wasn't too bad...prob should have gone slighty smaller though. Anyway, so the TT didn't feel too bad, prob could have pushed slightly smaller gears on the hills (ended up doing semi-strengthies lol) but hey. Crossed the line and i had passed 2 other girls and was only a couple secs behind Brodie so didn't think went too bad. Turns out i won by 37sec which put me in good position for the rest of the tour.
We had a couple of hours before the road race, so we all just sat under the trees with the rest of the US juniors...I had a hoagie for lunch (sounds pretty gross ay lol...) which is kinda a sub sorta thing. anyway, i rated it. Then it was time for the RR. It was really heating up and as a consequence a few ppl got heatstroke including Lara. Was a tough ride. The race itself wasn't very exciting. I had no real need to attack cause i was leading by a bit, but the girls who were 2nd and 3rd were just sitting in.. it was like they'd given up alright..that they were content with getting 2nd and 3rd when they should have been attacking the hell outta me! Oh well.. their loss. The race was kinda starting to piss me off cause it was so slow, so i attacked on 1 of the hills wth 1 and 1/2 laps to go and the girl who was 2nd came with me which was alright. We had a bit of a gap and just cruised the last little bit. Decided to try my luck in the sprint so bout 300m to go stepped out and got it. Pretty pleased with myself :). I had also won the intermediate sprint so had increased my lead another 15sec with the time bonuses.
After that, we hung around to watch the end of the boy's race, then wandered home to have showers. Had to wait for ages to get into the shower so decided to go on the computer and turns out MaryAnn and Brian were on. so had a good cha to them about the World's RR and it was great to hear how well everyone did. Can't wait to get back and see them all. I miss them heaps.
Anyways, had a shower than a sleep while everyone was packing up their track bikes (mine was still at the track cause we didn't have enough room in the van) which was good... cause i really couldn't be bothered doing anything lol. That night, we went over to the Semian's for dinner and had taco's and watched Disturbia and chilled with the rest of the Young Medalists...its awesome there and the people are lovely. I can't get over how nice everyone is over here.. its pretty much ridiculous! but hey, i'm not complaining :)
We left there at around 9:30 so that we could get some sleep for our early start tomorrow (the crit and final stage of the tour was at 8:30am). So another successful day on the bike. Looking forward to tomorrow's stage.. gonna try get away with the girls. Should be good
xo
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