By Allee Proud (Twitter – @alleeproud) Hello!?I have been shocking with keeping this blog updated.. gonna try and keep on top of this 🙂 A lot of things has happened between now and august since i last posted, so here we go! After the junior world championships, i took time off to recover mentally and…
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Miffy Galloway – ‘Dare il benvenuto a Italia?
By Miffy Galloway (@Miffyg) … Was the first thing I heard when I stumbled off the plane at Milan airport last Sunday. I tried to unscramble the words in my head, my first test to see how little Italian I remembered since being here in 2009 – ?Dairy eel ben vennouto a Italia?… Nothing. I?m…
Lisa Jacobs – Show No Mersey (and some cool news)
By Lisa Jacobs Last weekend was the Mersey Valley Tour, the first race of the national road series. The VIS women (or @VIS_Chicks now, for all the cool kids) were running a skeleton operation due to a last-minute poaching job by Australian team coach Martin Barras. Warming up before the TT (this was the driest…
Rhys Gillett – A Day To Forget, A Lesson To Remember…
By Rhys Gillett GP Mercatale. 160km. 303 riders. One of the biggest races on the Italian calendar. Also one of the most important, especially for squadra Fracor since it is in our home town. Not something you go into under-done. When I sat down with Francesco on Monday (the day before the race) and he…
Lauren Kitchen – Ronde van Gelderland
By Lauren Kitchen?(Twitter @LaurenKitchen1) Yesterday I raced Ronde van Gelderland near to Apeldoorn in Holland. It was an interesting race with a large startlist, a few testing hills and some?typical small dutch roads. Oh and of course wind! I felt really strong in the race and was present in the splits that occured just after…