The day before Lex Albrecht (BePink) landed in San Francisco for the Amgen Women's Tour of California the Canadian rider received word from her Italian team that she would need to find a ride from San Francisco Airport to Lake Tahoe. The team had gone ahead so Albrecht took to Twitter to make things happen.
Is anyone going from #SFO to #Tahoe tomorrow around noon? Looking for a lift to #AToC team hotel...lol. Really. @AmgenTOC #AmgenToC #ToC2016
— Lex Albrecht (@Lex_Albrecht) May 18, 2016
Chicago sports photographer Ethan Glading, who was also on his way to cover the first US Women's WorldTour event, was landing around the same time and responded that he could help. Albrecht made it to South Lake Tahoe and finished 17th in the hard first stage.
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Albrecht is several months into her first year on a European team. She brushed off the hiccup in her travel plans as part of the process.
"That's part of bike racing, you figure out how to make things happen," Albrecht said. "It's cool the cycling community is so tight. Even though we don't necessarily know each other super well or personally we all know end up in the same position at some point."
Albrecht's team set her up with lodging in the Bergamo region of northern Italy, and she's spent time getting used to the little differences of the European peloton.
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