Tour de l’Aude

It was a short trip to southern France to help out my team, which hadn’t enough riders to start, as some of us had to race for their National Teams (like Monia Bacaille) and others were sick.

As I hadn’t done any specific preparation for this race and I’m currently suffering of recurrent back ache and of my injured right leg, the race was one size to big for me in my actual form.

This week I’ll take a few days off, leaving my bike were it is and I will go and see a specialist next week, in hope he might be able to resolve my problems so that I can continue my season under better conditions!

Inscription on the start of the second stage

Start to the team time trial

The weekend before the Tour de l'Aude:

Sunday in Homburg (GER)

It was a real no-race; the girls just waited for the juniors who started shortly after us and the whole thing got completely mixed up, a mixture of juniors and women and doubled racers. It was acutally a quite nervous and dangerous race, so I quit a few laps before the end, continuing with one hour of easy training-ride.

Monday in Köln-Longerich (GER)Some 40 riders participated in this race and I felt more confident than before. But I didn’t really dare to give everything I got, because I knew that I had to replace a team-mate in the Tour de l’Aude which would start the following Friday in Gruissan. In the end, I finished 10^th in the sprint after a race controlled by the Koga Miyata Cycling Team who had one racer in the front group of three.