Last month, Hannah Barnes once again headed to Mallorca for a training camp with the Canyon-SRAM team, but the young Briton found herself in a very different place than she did 12 months ago.
For a start, she was wearing the white gilet of British national road champion, with its blue and red stripes, but more significant was the fact that she was able to kit up in the first place.
“I was on camp for 12 days last year and didn’t ride a bike once,” Barnes told Cyclingnews in Mallorca last month, referring to the ankle break she sustained in August 2015 that hampered her new start with her new team.
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“I did ask if I could possibly not do the whole camp because I thought I’d just be sitting around in the hotel, but I think Ronny [Lauke] and Beth [Duryea] wanted me to be there to get integrated into the team even if I wasn’t riding.”
On crutches and unable even to do the rounds at the buffet without assistance, her fellow riders took it in turns to load up her plate, which made light work of the integration process. But the overriding feeling was one of frustration; she should have been riding – only the ankle was taking far longer to heal than expected.
“I knew from the start it was a pretty serious injury and it was going to take a long time to heal, but I didn’t think it would take as long as it did,” says Barnes.
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