Race Report: Giro de SF W 1/2/3

Race Report: Giro de SF W 1/2/3

Date: Sept. 1, 2025

AVRT racers: Steph Hart, Louise Thomas, Katie Monaghan

Top Result: 5th (Steph), 6th (Louise)

Course: L shaped downtown course with a slight hill

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/15664855785

Race Recap (Steph’s perspective):

The field had 9 riders, 3 AV, 3 Terun, and 3 solo riders. With the expectation that Terun would be in the driver’s seat racing for Jacqueline or Jen, it seemed like AV’s best chance would be to follow a Terun break. Sure enough ~3 laps in, Sarah launched an attack that sufficiently strung out the field, and somehow all three Terun riders ended up in a break- yikes, and had a 6-7 second gap on the chase group (Me and two solo riders). Despite screaming at the two random girls to pull through so we could try and catch the Terun break, 3 laps later, the gap was static. 

Then in a moment of maximum chaos, the race was neutralized for 10 minutes due to an ambulance on course. Somehow when they restarted the race, the officials let the first six riders start without a gap- bummer for the break, but it gave me another shot for the second half of the race. From there, it was pretty much 20 minutes of the three Terun riders trading attacks, all of which I ended up covering based on the lacking response from the other two solo riders. Finally we’d played enough games with intermittent free-wheeling that Louise and Katie caught back on with ~2 laps to go. With two corners to go, one of the solo riders started ramping up the sprint. Katie and Louise were pretty gassed from the solo TT effort, and I was cracked from trying to rain on Terun’s parade all race, so we all rolled in at a lack-luster 5th, 6th, and 9th place.