June 6, 2010

Leah Sprints For the Win at the Westside Classic

by Courtney Albert

The racing this last Sunday at the 2010 TNA Westside Cycling Classic, presented by Shape Properties and Mosaic Homes, was nothing but spicy! Despite the clouds we had a great morning of weather and an incredibly successful morning of racing!

The women’s race started off strong, there were attacks in the first few minutes and the first time up the Camosun hill was fast and furious. The second lap saw Shani furiously attack moments before the hill and resulted in a strung out women’s field. The attacks kept coming, many of which were initiated by our strong Red Truck women. A break finally stuck with four Red Truck gals doing our best to protect our talented sprinter Leah. The Local Ride women were attacking every few minutes but we covered all breaks without a problem. On the second to last lap I launched an attack off the front at the start/finish hill and hoped our girls were sitting in and letting the other teams tire themselves out chasing me down. Once they caught me Noe launched another attack, perfectly timed to further drain our opponent’s legs. It worked! On the final lap Noe lead out Leah flawlessly and Leah sprinted for a huge win!