Mara Abbott may have been more surprised than anyone else at her second-place finish Wednesday during stage 1 of the Redlands Bicycle Classic.
The Wiggle Honda rider is competing in the US stage race this week as a guest rider for LA Sweat, a composite team that helped her stay safe throughout the opening stage before unleashing her on the uphill sprint at the end of the Highland circuit race.
“I’m really excited to be here,” Abbott told Cyclingnews. “I’m racing with a bunch of girls that I just met last night, and they raced as well as any of the professional teams did today. I was really proud to be a part of that, because that really shows them stepping up, and I was really honored to have them helping me out.”
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Abbott said she was pushing herself at the end of the stage to help build fitness for the future and to protect against any time gaps that could go out during stage 1 of USA Cycling’s National Racing Calendar opener. She said the runner-up result was simply a bonus, adding that she wasn’t surprised to be overtaken in the final 10 metres by relatively unknown rider Alison Jackson (Twenty16-Sho Air).
“No, honestly, I was surprised that other people didn’t,” Abbott said. “So kudos to her, and kudos to everyone else who rode really well.”
Abbott is at the race to fill a void in her European race program for the Wiggle Honda UCI pro team.
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