Racing, racing, racing

I am in Montreal at the moment doing a block of racing. It has been a big month of racing so far with several weeks to go before I can head back 'home' to Germany and take a little rest. It has been a successful run and it has been great to be part of a team getting results, what do they say, "winners are grinners". The good run started off when Susanne won the very tough World Cup in Bern Swizterland. She showed that the form was good for more than one day by taking a commanding tour of what is considered the hardest tour on the women's calendar, the 10 day Tour de l'Aude. I had started to get some good legs, after a slow start to the season after illness and I was able to help quite a bit and really feel like part of the winning team. After very few days rest and lots of travel km's we arrived in Montreal and had the joy of racing a water-logged World Cup on Saturday. Fabiana was our girl of the day and she finished a very respectable 2nd behind current World Cup leader Judith Arndt. So all in all, May has been kind to Menikini.....fingers crossed we can continue in this fashion.

Here are some photos of Tour de l'Aude courtesy of CJ Farquarhson from womenscycling.net.