This year was my first year competing at the Timaru 2 day tour, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. It ended up being one of my most memorable and favourite tours I’ve done.
I started the Saturday with a 4km ITT, racing in D grade. My goal for the itt was to get a power pb which didn’t quite happen but I was happy to come away with a 3rd!
For stages 2 and 3, I just stayed in the bunch as they were flat stages and I knew that was my weakness.
For stage four I managed to get in a break for about 10km with 3 others unfortunately we got caught.
I then saved my energy for the final stage as there was a lot of climbing. On the final stage there was a massive hill a few km from the finish. This is where I really pushed it and managed to solo to the finish.
I then went from being in 8th place on GC at the start of this stage to 1st GC and taking home the yellow jersey, ( it must have been the multiple coffees and massages from mum!)
Overall I’m really happy with how the weekend went and I can’t wait to do it all again next year!!
