Holiday has started….and soon it’s over…

Had a great start of my vacation in Falun visitng my brother, Jonas. Then it was time for the big town… Two days in Stockholm included alot! Preparing my wedding dress togheter with Tora, dinner with friends, shopping, coffeebreaks and I also got time to see my sponsor Enfo. Me and Martin held a speech about my progress over the last years, plans and goals for the future. (pictures and report her) Great motivating week!

Next stop is Åland and my aunts wedding before heading back to my 2nd home, Belgium.

Just some days left before I start my build up for the 2nd half of the season…. a lot of food, rest and nice people to refill my motivation and soon I’m hungry for more races!

See you all soon, back on the bike!

Sunny summer thoughts…

Emma

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A perfect tactic for RedSun… Resulting in a doubble today!

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After coming home from Spain I really needed some days to dry up. So many days racing in the rain is hard, both for your head and for your body. After a couple of easy days I was ready for some good trainings. I have a new TT bike that I´m very excited about and yesterday Martin took me out behind our Vespa :)
Next week is the Swedish Championships. I will race the timetrail on Wednesday and the roadrace on Saturday. After that I will get my well deserved vacation… just need to give everything in these last two races first!

Right now I´m watching the Royal wedding between Victoria and Daniel, nice to get some inspiration for our wedding in January :)

Emma

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Busy and wet days here in Pais Vasco. Since we started La Bira on Thursday it has just kept on raining constanly…
Yesterday we raced in Lekeitio. The race was hard, cold and wet… 3rd place for me and up to 4th in the GC. After the finish I was happy to see my friends Iosune, Maitane and Joseba and their lovelly daughter, it´s been a year since I saw them the last time!
Today we had double stages with a mountains timetrail from 6km and a 78km stage.
Results for me; 5th on the tt and 2nd in the afternoon.
Tomorrow a very hard stage with start and finish in Urduña… and more rain of course!

Now bedtime :)

Emma

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The rain in todays stage made the race hard and tricky. The peloton broke many times on the small and wet roads but finally it all came back and a bunch sprint decided the stage.
For me I had a good feeling but a less good finish…

Emma

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Good preparation for La Bira that starts on Thursday.

Emma

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Had an OK day in todays race. The circuit was not that hard but attacks made it interesting. Most of the times I was there or one from my team but unfortunately the break that made it to the finish was without a RedSun rider :(

3 riders finished one minute ahead of the peloton and I was 3rd in the sprint so a 6th place and I advance up to 2nd place in the total World Cup.

Emma

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Lying on my bed trying to get some air… It´s so warm outside (33 degrees earlier at 8 o`clock) and me and Mascha that I share room with are scared to get a cold if we put the AC on!
Tomorrow it´s time for the 6th World Cup this year and it´s actually on the place were I did my first World Cup ever in 2005, my first year as a pro.
Back then I ended up on a 21th place, just outside the first 20 that gets UCI points. The circuit was harder then compared to tomorrows race that seems to be all flat… But with wind and many attacks you never know what wil happen :)
Start at 10.00 so hope to be finished before the worst heat comes!

World Cup Valladolid

Emma

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Thanks for a lovelly photoshoot Tom!
If you are interested to see more take a look at Tom Tveitan´s website.

Emma

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Foto © William Meertens/Emma Johansson

Back home in Norway after a long trip who started way to early this morning (05:00, phhuu!), but with a good feeling.

I proved to myself that I can fight forthe generall classement in stage races. Still some bits to work on, like climbing the big and long mountains and the TT speed. Nice to have some objectives to focus on for the future. But first some rest!

Foto © William Meertens/Emma Johansson

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Foto © William Meertens/Emma Johansson

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