Rider diary: Pooley victorious in the mountains of Ardeche
Sharon Laws updates us on the progress of the women’s team, this time with a huge win by Emma Pooley at the Tour of Ardeche! The Tour of Ardeche is one of my favourite stage races; it is held in a beautiful area of France, the weather is usually good and having done it 3 [...]
Rider diary: The temperature drops but the heart rate rises
Sharon Laws continues her diary entries, this time from the GP de Plouay-Bretagne in France. After the Sweden World Cup I spent three days back in Girona before getting on a plane again for a race in Belgium. Carla was particularly excited with her Cervélo S5 making its debut. It failed not to disappoint and [...]
Rider diary: Racing in the land of the vikings
Sharon Laws continues her diary of adventures with the women’s team, this time from the TTT World Cup in Sweden. With Thuringen completed we sent Emma home to Switzerland, to do some more baking as provisions were running low and Noemi, Trine, Iris and I headed for Sweden via Copenhagen. Lizzie headed back to Belgium [...]
Rider diary: Tired Legs and the infamous Hankaberg
Sharon Laws sent us another great diary entry, this time from the Thuringen Rundfahrt in Germany. Noemi Cantele, Lizzie Armistead, Trine Smidt, Iris Slappendal, Sharon Laws, Emma Pooley After an easy five days recovering from the Giro I was back on a plane again heading this time to Germany for the International Thuringen Rundfahrt. I [...]
Rider diary: Highs and lows of the Giro Donne
The longest and hardest stage race on the Women’s calendar is the ten-day Giro Donne. Second place on GC and a stage win for Emma Pooley made it a good result for our women’s team. Sharon Laws reflects on the biggest race of the women’s season. Iris Slappendal, Noemi Cantele, Sharon Laws, Lucy Martin, Jessie [...]
Rider diary: Giro Trentino
Sharon Laws wrote this diary entry about the Giro Trentino just before the start of the Giro Donne. Apples, Apples and more Apples. The Giro Trentino. One of Italy’s most famous wine regions but unfortunately we had to stick to the apples. The Giro Trentino was my first stage race in Italy last year and, [...]
Race report: Giro Donne, stages 4-5 and injury report
Race report from Theo Maucher Altedo to Verona 136km It has been a quite fast race. Nobody wanted to let a group go today. After 80km there was the first successful breakaway with a group of 11 including Iris Slappendel and Sharon Laws. Our plan worked because Sharon was dangerous for the GC riders. Nederland [...]
Race preview: Recon for the Giro Donne
Sharon Laws is part of our team for the Giro Donne, the Grand Tour for women’s racing. She sent this diary of the team’s scouting of the race. The Giro Donne is the most prestigious women’s stage race of the year and runs from the first to the tenth of July taking in many of [...]
Rider diary: Chasing the green machine in Spain
Sharon Laws of our women’s pro team checks in after tough racing in Spain. I’m wearily travelling back from northern Spain to Girona having just completed Iurreta Emakumeen Bira a 4 day, 5 stage, race and one day race – Durango Durango. Marianne Vos is on fire and won both Durango and Bira. It was [...]
