Tour of the Gila

Tayler - 3rd Place on Stage 2

Birthday Cake from the Team

Birthday Cupcakes waiting for me when I got home from Dave

Dave's Birthday Card for me - He's so creative!

Alisha says: The Tour of the Gila has historically been one of my favorite races. This year's race was a bit rough for me as an individual and for our team. Kstrong came down with a nasty stomach bug on the first day of racing which our manager also came down with a few days later. Luckily none of the other girls got it but I did manage to pick up a sore throat and headache for most of the race. The racing was also different this year as most of the races took us considerably longer to complete than past years. Silver City is known for it's wind and although at times it was incredibly windy we got very lucky and the only stage that it really was a factor in was the time trial. Our team had some great finishes, Tayler got her first NRC podium finish with 3rd on the Inner Loop Road Race, the team raced great in the crit and Lauren finished 2nd and Ali and Kmac finished 5th & 6th in the time trial.

I celebrated my birthday while at the Gila. We had a great dinner prepared by director/coach extraordinaire Giana complete with chocolate birthday cake and singing from the team. Giana also got gifts for everyone on the team which was super cool. Lauren got a crown cause she's the queen "B", Ali got a bike horn to let people know she's coming, Coryn got some bacon bits to make peanut butter and bacon sandwiches and I got a heart necklace for racing with my heart. Dave made me a funny javelina card about the race in honor of all the hype the javelina's have been getting.

SRAM footage from each day:

http://www.theroaddiaries.com/?page_id=17

Time Trial Footage by Peyton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQqaTsrG4Eo&feature=share