Tour De grove and UCI 1.1 Cycliste Gatineau GP, Canada

And so the racing begins! First up was tour de grove.

We flew out of san fran at 7am and arrived in St. Louis at 5pm…..just a quick weekend visit for some ice cream custard…. And a little bit of racing (3 crits in a series called tour de grove)

The first crit was a night twilight race, which meant we raced in the dark. I love racing in the dark, it’s so much fun! The crowds are always awesome at night, especially when you race on a Friday night in down town St. Louis.

Friday night went well, VK was super strong and the girls were super aggressive which strung the race out and allowed for me to finish 3^rd .

On Saturday the circuit was super long for a crit, which made for no break to be able to stick, we tried and tried to get away but nothing worked, it ended up being a bunch sprint, and Emily got 4^th.

On Sunday the course was cool, had a few little hills in it. We raced super well together and Jen managed to escape with 3 laps to go and went solo and took the W! Super stoked! We celebrated in style with some frozen custard that is aparently world famous in St. Louis!

Up next we were on the plane on route to NY!!

We are spending a few weeks staying in Connecticut with our teammate Kathleen Billington and her husband Greg Wolfe.

This past weekend we made the 8 hour drive to Gatineau, Canada for the Cycliste Gatineau GP, a UCI 1.1 race, which drew many of the best women in the world to the start line.  We did 13 laps (137km) of a technical undulating circuit, it was HOT and had a great spectator turn out!

Ruth, Kathleen, Bridie, Emily, Myself and Jazzy.

I felt awesome and all the VK girls rode great, I ended up in 6^th Behind Ina Teutenberg so was pretty happy with that! Unfortunately Em crashed on the last corner, but is ok

Next up is Philly!

Hopefully we will get to visit NYC tomorrow….fingers crossed the rain stays away!