tisdag 9 februari 2010

Last days

Ladies Tour of Qatar is finished and i'm back in Girona again since a few days.
Last two stages of the race was windy, sometimes hard, and filled with good teamwork. Unfortunately, we didn't get a stage win as our goal was, but we did what we could and worked hard as a team.
On the last stage we finished of with 6laps on a 6km circuit, just up and down a big street along the seaside, turning in two roundabouts. It was a fast, and very windy course.
With a bit more then a lap to go, i attacked, and got a gap. I got up to 10sec from the chasing bunch, and it was a really hard effort on the windy course holding of a bunch going for the sprint. Turning on to the finish street with 1300m to go it was cross wind coming from the front, and in such conditions the bunch are much faster then a solo rider. So viewing the line from 500meters the bunch finally passed me. So, so close, but so far away...

Back home now i've had a couple days of recoveryrides, and right now im watching the rain pouring down outside the window. Good timing though, my schedule says restday with 1h easy, which i can do on the trainer watching the guys turn to suffer in windy Qatar..

Next few weeks will be some hard blocks of training, but I'm also looking forward to a couple of visits here! First of is one of my best friends, and it will be great to have a good company for some trainings here! And the next one of is my mum, and it's gonna be great see her for a bit again!

In the last lap at stage 3 in Qatar.
(Photo credit © CJ Farquharson)

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