8 Down 1 to Go!
The stage today turned out to be a good stage for an
all-rounder with the climbs on the 3 local laps not being very steep and not
very long either. It was a technical
circuit with a lot of corners and downhills that had the bunch strung out for
the most part. The bunch split on the 2nd
local lap and a group of about 55 of us stayed away. After the local laps the route was flat all
the way to the finish. With an average
speed of 45km/h for the last hour of racing hearing that the race had been
shortened back to the original distance of 116km was the best news I have
received so far here at the Giro Donne. Trying
to go back to the car for bottles in a race this fast is not easy and a
puncture at a critical point in the race when the attacks were going off the
front did not make things any easier for me.
A break with three of the top riders (Marianne Vos, Judith Arndt and
Evelyn Stevens) got away with about 25km to go.
Cherise Taylor just finished outside of the top 10 coming in 11th. I finished in the middle of the bunch in 31st
place.
Tomorrow is the final stage from Sarnico, over two category
2 climbs, to Bergamo with a total race distance of 106km.
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Me and Cherise after the stage today
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The only thing we got to experience passing through Milan
was the crazy traffic. Definitely not
the shoe and designer clothing shopping trip you associate with a city like
that.
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View from our hotel for the last night
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