Mt. Hood

Alisha, KMac, Kristin (overall race winner), Alison, Kaitie, Tayler, Giana (not in picture)
Kaitie and I getting advice on the prologue course
The time trial course in Washington

The break as they race along the Columbia River Gorge, so pretty!!
This is a picture from the guys race but check out the scenery!

Alisha says: While Dave was still busy teaching his summer class I took off on another cycling adventure. My first stop was Santa Rosa where I did a really fun long group ride with my coach/director Giana that included some incredible climbing over the Geyser's.

Then Tayler and I did a 12+ hour road trip to Hood River, Oregon, where we met up with the other Peanut Butter & Co/Twenty12 girls to race the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic. We were treated to a great week of racing. The weather was awesome, the scenery was absolutely beautiful and the courses were fun and challenging. We all worked really well together and came up with some great results. The yellow jersey went back and forth between two of my teammates, Kristin Armstrong and Alison Starnes so the rest of the team was put to work to defend the yellow. I had a lot of fun helping to keep the pace high on the hills. My favorite day of racing was the last stage that included 8200 ft. of climbing. We rode on small forest service roads, through snow banks and down twisty descents. It was epic. I finished 5th in that stage and 7th in the general classification.