Thursday Time Trial –
June 25, 2015
The Canadian Championships TT
would be my longest TT of the year at 30km.
The day was windy and the course was two laps of descending at 70kph and
climbing up a near 7% grade. I was able
to negative split my laps while maintaining a consistently hard pace. When I finished I had the best placed time
but I knew that there were several key contenders after me. In the end I took home 7th place
and a greater understanding of what level of pain one must embrace in order to
be a champion. Congratulations to
Carol-Ann on her win.
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| Photo by Velo Palmares |
Friday Road Race –
June 26, 2015
The road race course itself was
selective due to the wind, a steep climb in the 3x15km circuits, with a longer
climb out of the circuit toward the finish at 110km. The Canadian field is strong and the hunt for
the Maple Leaf jersey was fierce. It was
all about playing the game of tactics and riding hard. We had a beautiful day to ride and I had a
great time rolling on Quebec’s roads. It
wasn’t a perfect race but I grinded the gears to 4th place.
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| Photo by Richard Wooles |
Sunday Criterium –
June 28, 2015
The Sunday crit was a West Coast
crit due to the rain that came down for the race. Rain is not a problem for a BC winter riding
gal like me and I had been looking forward to the punching crit course all
weekend. The course was fast, it climbed
to the finish, rounded two corners descending, and then climbed again. It was a dynamic race and I came into it with
a plan. A few breaks went and were
pulled back, but the winning move was a break of two out of which I was able to
take the win on the uphill finish. The
win was really sweet because my parents were there to watch it happen.
I really enjoyed my debut riding
at Canadian Nationals and am really thankful to have the best equipment to use
courtesy of our sponsors Felt Bicycles, SRAM, Zipp, Speedplay and Fizik. A huge thank-you to Twenty16 p/b Sho-Air for taking a
chance on me this year and developing me as a cyclist. Thank you to the supports of CyclingBC,
Richard Wooles and Julian Base for the technical and managerial support, and
running around for us all week, it would have been much more stressful had I
been there on my own. Thank you to my
coach Alison Testroete, and also Felicia Gomez for working with me this year –
we are looking good! And yes, thank you
Bruce and Phoenix Velo Training Group in Mission, BC where I got my cycling
start.
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| Super happy that my parents could cheer me on to my first Championship win. Photo by Richard Wooles. |
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| 2015 Canadian Crit Champion |
Full Results here.
