Redlands

Alisha says: Redlands is quite the epic race. The 75 mile Beaumont road race saw temps in the 90's. The temperature made this race hard as I felt like heat was radiating from my face. The race got interesting when my Peanut Butter teammates started launching attacks. Tayler went off solo for a little bit and then Alison threw down a sweet attack. There was a chance that she was going to stay off the front until HTC's Evelyn Steven's went crazy up the last climb shattering the field and bringing her back.

Going into the crit I was nervous to say the least. This was a technical 9 corner course that I knew was going to be fast and hard. I had a couple of goals that I wanted to accomplish during the race. One was to work on positioning. I even did a mini attack and was on the front for just a little bit. It was really fun though. Weird, I never though I would say that about a crit.

Luckily the temps were a little cooler for the final Sunset stage. This was a 6 or 7 mile loop that we did 9 times. It had this climb that by about the 4th time you start thinking how am I ever going to get up this 5 more times. Then it also had a bombing fast downhill section with some brake grabber turns. The race went crazy from the start with a small group getting away the first time up the hill. Kristin and Kmac made the first group and the rest of the team was in the second group. It came back together after a couple of laps. It really was a race of attrition. It was a hard race but now that I am not in the pain cave it was also fun. I would like to borrow Tiff P. saying and call it Type 2 Fun. Redlands was a good experience. I learned a lot.

While at this race we also got to meet some of our awesome sponsors. Felt was there as well as Peanut Butter and Co. We went to dinner with PB owner Lee Zalben. He is a really friendly cool guy. Thanks Lee for sponsoring our women's cycling team!!!!