Out in Tucson still and training as hard as ever.  My fitness is coming around and I am really strong after these past couple months of hard training.  I have been doing some local racing also and been on the podium for nearly all of them.

This past weekend I had quite the saturday… I did the “shootout” which is a huge group ride that goes every Saturday and is always around 50-150 people.  It’s basically an unofficial race since it goes so hard and drops about 70% of the starters by the end.  My total morning ride was 100miles.  Then in the afternoon I raced a local crit. Since there were only 3 women racing we asked to be combined with the men’s race.  That was a lot of fun and a really hard pace.  I was the only woman of the three to be able to hold onto the men long enough that the group lapped the other women giving me the win.  My coach is really happy with my progress and believes in my capability.  He is really excited to see what I can do this year also.

I’ll be here all of March still and am so excited to see how much stronger I will be by the end of the month.  Then at the beginning of April I head to California to start racing the big races.  Redlands is the first bit National race of the year.  The rest of the year is a bit up in the air as the calendar isn’t super clear from my team.  I know I’ll be up in Canada for some training and racing, and then hopefully I’ll go over to Europe for some racing also.  Big season ahead.