My Big News

I am racing the GIRO DONNE (Giro Ciclistico Internazionale Femminile or the Giro of Italy) with the US National Team!!!!

I am so grateful and very excited about this opportunity. The US squad is unbelievably strong and will be run by Michael Tamayo and Andrew Hawkes.

With the best teams in the world competing, the racing is going to be incredible. I have been working very hard here in France and am elated to be going to Italy.

I travel to Italy tomorrow to meet up with the US girls. I look forward to being around Americans!

It is going to be quite the travel day: 6:30AM departure, 4 transfers on the train, and hopefully, I will get all the way to my intended destination in Italy by 11pm (or after). The Euro-rail system is interesting; I cannot buy train tickets for Italy in the train stations of France, and you cannot buy tickets online either because they do not issue e-tickets. It seems somewhat backwards, eh? So hopefully there will be a seat available even though online it says "please reserve"...this is what we call flying by the seat of your pants. I am used to this though, and I am learning the ropes of the rails with all the race travel I have been doing.