Katrin Garfoot appears to have forgotten how to lose. Fresh off the back of an Australian summer that saw her win the national time trial title and the Santos Women’s Tour, the Orica-AIS rider arrived at the Ladies Tour of Qatar adamant that she would be playing a supporting role for her team.
But when a rider is experienced a purple patch of the kind currently being enjoyed by Garfoot, everything appears effortless. Opportunities seem almost to present themselves.
So it proved on stage 2 of the Ladies Tour of Qatar to Al Khor Corniche. Part of a four-woman move that ghosted off the front of the leading group on the run-in to the seaside town, Garfoot eased away from her companions in the final two kilometres almost without realising it.
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“On the roundabout I was the first one in, I just did three fast pedal strokes and then stopped pedalling. When I turned around, no one was there, so I went for it and they didn’t seem to chase,” Garfoot said. As simple and as complicated as that.
“No one wanted to chase. That was it – head down and go for it. Either I make it or I don’t. So I’m pretty stoked.”
Garfoot soloed home 13 seconds clear of second-placed Trix Worrack (Canyon//SRAM) and ultimately put almost a minute into pre-race favourites Chloe Hosking (Wiggle-High5) and Ellen Van Dijk (Boels-Dolmans) to claim the overall leader’s gold jersey
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