2009.07.21 - Good start in Thüringen
I ended 2nd today, after a great first stage her in Thüringen. I suffered through the whole race and didn’t feel good once. Maybe a good sign that I ended on the podium and that everyone else must have felt the same. Marianne Vos is strong and won, so now its up to her and her team to control. I will try to attack her when the good legs returns and the “holyday legs” have left my body. Just need some more racing to once again adapt to racing speed and all the suffering. Think my training mates back home in Norway need to kick my ass more and stop been that nice…
The race was fun and everyone raced offensive and with a lot of attacking. I went away at 4k to go with 3 others, but the peleton caught us on the final 2k and I ended up to far down before the sprint.
Look forward to more hard days, as I got good memories from last year.
You can follow the race live on the organizers liveticker her , or race website and Cyclingnews.
Emma
| 1 | Marianne Vos (Ned) DSB Bank – Nederland Bloeit | 1:59:44 | |
| 2 | Emma Johansson (Swe) Red Sun Cycling Team | ||
| 3 | Rasa Leleivyte (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Titanedi | ||
| 4 | Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Team Columbia Highroad Women | ||
| 5 | Sarah Düster (Ger) Cervélo Test Team | ||
| 6 | Trixi Worrack (Ger) Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung | 0:00:04 | |
| 7 | Tania Belvederesi (Ita) Gauss RDZ Ormu-Colnago | ||
| 8 | Linda Villumsen Serup (Den) Team Columbia Highroad Women | ||
| 9 | Andrea Bosman (Ned) Netherlands National Team | 0:00:10 | |
| 10 | Eleonora Patuzzo (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara Titanedi | ||
| 11 | Eva Lechner (Ita) Gauss RDZ Ormu-Colnago | ||
| 12 | Luisa Tamanini (Ita) Selle Italia Ghezzi | ||
| 13 | Nicole Cooke (GBr) Vision 1 Racing | ||
| 14 | Martine Bras (Ned) Selle Italia Ghezzi | ||
| 15 | Monica Holler (Swe) Bigla Cycling Team | ||
| 16 | Inga Cilvinaite (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Titanedi | ||
| 17 | Angela Hennig (Ger) DSB Bank – Nederland Bloeit | ||
| 18 | Aurore Verhoeven (Fra) Vision 1 Racing | ||
| 19 | Noemi Cantele (Ita) Bigla Cycling Team | ||
| 20 | Petra Dijkman (Ned) Red Sun Cycling Team | ||
| 21 | Vicki Whitelaw (Aus) Vision 1 Racing | ||
| 22 | Iris Slappendel (Ned) Team Flexpoint | ||
| 23 | Susanne Ljungskog (Swe) Team Flexpoint |
| 1 | Marianne Vos (Ned) DSB Bank – Nederland Bloeit | 1:59:32 | |
| 2 | Emma Johansson (Swe) Red Sun Cycling Team | 0:00:06 | |
| 3 | Sarah Düster (Ger) Cervélo Test Team | 0:00:07 | |
| 4 | Rasa Leleivyte (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Titanedi | 0:00:08 | |
| 5 | Ellen Van Dijk (Ned) Team Columbia Highroad Women | 0:00:12 |