Tour de Toona,

Stage 3 starts today. 155km.
It will be a long day on the bike.

Yesterday was short, only 78km. The first hill climb was really hard. I felt good and was climbing well but lost contact with the front group at 200m to the top. As I crested the top I could see the front group had split into 3 separate groups. I was with my team mate Gina and a couple of others and we chased for a while before we realised that we weren't going to get back on. I was disappointed as except for the last 200m of that climb I was going ok. Oh well...thats what happened and there is nothing I can do to change that...so we move on.
The great news is that Alison, my team mate, was second in the stage, having received a great leadout from Anne and Erinne who were both in that front group. They all had great rides and were aggressive through out the race. Alison Powers from Colavita won the stage and gained back 58seconds that she had lost in the team time trial on the first day...so she not only took the yellow jersey off Webcor but the points jersey as well.
My group came in 15minutes behind...clearly the laughing group.

The first stage on Monday was a team time trial. We were 5th overall, 1min 17 secs down....or something like that, only 1 second behind 4th.
Kristin Armstrong had her World Championship stripes on and looked a million bucks....with an aero helmet to match...very flash!

Today will be an epic day and perhaps being 15mintes behind the GC riders will allow an early non-threatening break to go up the road...if so, I'll try to be part of it.

Will keep you posted.
Mesh