2017 was a rollercoaster of a year for Canyon SRAM's Tiffany Cromwell, with periods in which she was over-raced and burdened with self-doubts, but the Australian rallied, winning her first race of the year in July after rediscovering her mojo.
"I was hoping that the season would start better than it did but then I had a massive slump around California in May," she told Cyclingnews.
"I took a step back, revisited things and then the backend was a lot better with getting a win in the pocket. The form was coming in the final two months but there weren't any major highlights."
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Going into her second season in Canyon colours, the 29-year-old was marked down as one of the team's most dependable and experienced road captains. However, when the team's already thin roster began to weaken due to injuries and illnesses, Cromwell found herself going from race to race without a picture-perfect race plan, and without periods of rest or training in between.
"We had a few injuries and illnesses, so my programme kept changing. I wasn't hitting my early targets and I think I was just racing too much when I really just needed to take a step back and do the training periods. I was fine with coming in for races but having those training blocks would have been better. That's what I did in the second half of the year and that's really what I needed."
Before regaining form and confidence Cromwell's season hit bottom at the Tour of California in May. She quit the race on stage 1 and what followed was a revaluation of her season. She took a step back, headed home to Europe and tried to figure out her next move.
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