The Cameron Law Cycling Series is always an exciting race for Trek Red Truck. Close to home in beautiful Victoria, there’s sure to be strong competition, big crowds, and the opportunity to show what our team is made of. 2015 was no exception!
A couple weekends ago saw the three juniors of Trek Red Truck head out to Penticton to race the Junior Provincial Championships. The racing got kicked off bright and early Saturday morning with a time trial of 22km for the girls and the same for the boys. The course was around Summerland in a beauty location.
The past few years I’ve been on Trek Red Truck, the women’s team has had the opportunity to attend one of few UCI races held in North America every year, the Gatineau Grand Prix. This road race gives us the chance to show our colours and abilities in one at the highest level of racing in Canada.
The Canada Cup series kicked off this past May long weekend in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, and marked the start of the 2015 race season on home Canadian soil.
For the men’s team, the Sea Otter Classic was the first ‘real’ race of the season. No disrespect to the mixture of spring series races that some of the guys took in before that, but Sea Otter was the first time we had a full squad out, had full race support from the dynamic duo of Steve and Evan, and the first time we had competed with racers outside of our little British Columbian bubble.
After a great week of hard training at the legendary Santa Rosa camp, some of the members of the TRT race team headed down to Wenatchee, Washington to take park in the “Tour de Bloom” a 3 stage/2 day race, featuring a mass start hill climb, a twilight downtown crit and, a long 165 km RR in the around the beautiful town of Waterville.
Arriving at the Mazda Raceway at Leguna Seca for Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California, was like stepping into a festival of bikes, combining all elements of the sport from racing fat and skinny tires to an expo stacked with every bike manufacturer and product available! The environment was buzzing with energy as vendors, campers and athletes set up for a jam-packed weekend of everything bike related!
When I was deciding what to do for the 2015 cycling season, one of my biggest goals was to have fun on the bike. For some reason that translated into finding a new challenge – tackling the Leadville Trail 100. I not only convinced myself that this would be fun – but I also convinced fellow Trek-Red Truck-er Leah Guloien that a 100-mile mountain bike race at altitude would be a great idea.
Each and every year Spring Series gets labeled as "just training" however it offers some of the hardest fought racing all season long. Trek Red Truck showed up to the fight!
No matter how well training goes over the winter, training just never seems to be the same as racing. In Vancouver, Spring Series provides a great opportunity to get a little racing in the legs before heading to bigger races like Redlands. This year, however, the stars aligned allowing me to kick the 2015 season off a little earlier in New Zealand.
A couple weeks before Nationals, Allison, Kinley and myself decided it would be fun to do a TRT Team Pursuit at the Track National Championships in Milton. In order to compete we needed four riders, so we found Sara Mason from Ontario, who ended up fitting the bill perfectly.
No matter how well training goes over the winter, training just never seems to be the same as racing. In Vancouver, Spring Series provides a great opportunity to get a little racing in the legs before heading to bigger races like Redlands.