Hillingdon Wednesday Night Women’s race

For a change, there was a very small field of 5 women for today’s race, and as 3 of them rode for Bonito Squadra Corse, it made the race very different to usual. Throughout the race there were several attacks made by 2 of the Bonito Squadra Corse riders. I also made a couple of attacks, but neither of these stuck. One of the Bonito Squadra Corse riders managed to get away and stay away; their team worked well together tactically and had made me do a long turn on the front before one of them attacked, followed by another which was the one that stuck! It was impossible to work together as a group to catch the leading rider as her teammates kept on getting in the way and obviously wouldn’t do any work to help us catch her teammate. So this was very frustrating, however I’m pleased as I had a very strong sprint at the end which I won to come 2^nd overall. It was a very good training race, and hopefully setting me up nicely for the National Women’s RR on Sunday.