Nationals - Seven Springs, PA

The A-Team just finished up Nationals. Friday, 13th was the time trial and Monday, 16th was the Road Race.

The Road Race was 2 laps of 27 miles with hard climbs and fast down hills. We had four girls racing, Rebecca Larson, Kristin Sanders, Katharine Carroll, and Carmen McNellis. The race started out pretty mellow for the fist 12 miles and then the attacks started. We did a great job as a team covering dangerous moves. Katharine got in a break with about 10 people, we were hoping this would stick, but it didn't as the group sat up. Katherine kept going hard as the group got caught and she was off the front for a while before the climbers caught her. A small group was off the front for awhile until we hit the long highway climb and it came back together with about 20 girls. As soon as this happened someone attacked again and about 8 girls got away. Sadly we were not part of this group, but we had 3 in the next group back of about 10 girls. We chased hard up the last big climb and into the finish. Our group was sprinting for 9th place. Laura Van Gilder sprinted it in for 9th with Kristin following for 10th. Carmen came in 12th, Katharine 19th, and Rebecca 34.

1. Mara Abbott (Webcor Builders)
2. Kristin Armstrong (TEAm Lipton)
3. Amber Neben (Buitenpoort/Flexpoint)

Stay tuned for pictures!