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Tue, 22 Jun 2010

Update from Stoke

By Alex Greenfield - Horizon Fitness Racing Team

Last Thursday I raced in Stoke in the Horizon Fitness women's criterium. We had some promotional things before the race with some local schools which was pretty cool; handing out some photos of the team and signing t-shirts (even though they probably didn't have a clue who we were!)

Our DS, Stef, gave us a good team talk before the crit, and gave us our game plan and got us all psyched up! Once the race was underway, Helen was on the front for the first 5 laps, destroying everyone, and we could already see the cracks coming. We all tried to keep the pressure on, make a few attacks, and then Dani hit out, got a gap, and that was that.

The rest of us then marked all the moves back in the bunch. Hannah Barnes was the only one who gave it her best to get away and was really strong, but the numbers were in our favour - we still had 6 riders in the bunch. I'm pleased with my race though and got 6th in the sprint so I'm just happy to get through it as it was only my 4th race this year.

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