Caravella 2nd at Nalley Historic Roswell Criterium

Race #2 in the SE Criterium Series moved to Roswell, GA for the Nalley Historic Roswell Criterium.

Aaron's, Sarah Caravella, was the team's second rider to stand atop the podium in the first two days of racing here at the SE Criterium Series. She had a strong 2nd place finish as she came to line with two of the nations strongest veteran sprinters.

Katharine Carroll followed up her big win at Athens Twilight with another great finish in Roswell in 4th place and thus keeping her series lead going into Tuesdays event in Beaufort, SC.

Report from Sarah:
The Aaron’s team lined up for day number two in the southeast crit series with the showdown in Roswell, Georgia. Coming off a big win the night before in Athens’s Georgia, the team was primed to defend the leaders Jersey and most aggressive rider’s jersey that Katharine Carroll had won the night before.
With strong teams such as Colavita, Cheerwine, Advil, and Target Training represented, we knew we had our work cut out for us. The race started aggressively with teams anxious to launch attacks from the gun. The course only allowed for a couple of opportunities to advance causing a dogfight just to maintain position in the field. Around mid race with the laps beginning to wear on the rider’s legs, Kat Carroll launched a brutal attack and quickly established several bike lengths over the field. Quickly Colavita’s Iona winter, and Cheerwine’s Chrissy Ruiter chased in hot pursuit. The break seemed to be the most threatening of the day but the rest of the peleton refused to had a duplicate podium from the night before. The break was brought quickly back and the field seemed to be riding for a field sprint.
With one lap remaining Aaron’s began to set up for the sprint. It was vital that not only we try to go for the win, but that we also defend the leader’s jersey. Coming up the backside of the course, Shannon, anticipating the swarm jumped up the hill and strung out the field with a blistering pace. Still fighting for position myself, Kat flew up with other side with me on her wheel and set me up perfect going into the last corner.
I then jumped on Colavita’s Tina Pic as we started for the sprint. A couple of inches short, I finished second behind Tina. Laura Van Gilder rounded off the podium for third.
The big news of the day though came with Kat finishing fourth in the sprint and maintaining the leader’s jersey.