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Women project summary 2018

Catherine Marsal
Kvindelandstræner, landevej

Objective and feedback 2018

My vision for the year was to
give the juniors some good inter-
national experiences with racing
few nation cups and specially to
give attention and visibility to the
youth categories at the Pige-
Camps, Himmelfart, Marcello
Bergamo cup and with 2 camps
in August and December.
Danish women cycling, I kept in On the elite side, it was important
Trofeo Binda hasn´t delivered mind that the juniors still need to still have them present in UCI

the results I expected. This early time to develop, stay motivated races in 2018. We have been
race in the season is a big nation and work toward an international very unlucky with sickness, ma-
cup where all the nations are level. The importance is to keep ny injuries after crashes and
present. The Danish girls were them activated in their sport, to other negative factors in Healthy
not up to the level and showed not lose them and to give them Ageing Tour and Elsy Jakob and
difficulties to stay in the bunch. more time and tools to grow. Bene ladies tour. However,
The weather was hard core, 2 Therefore, they had the opportu- Christina Siggaard pulled a nice
degrees with rain and 180 riders nity to go to EM. 6th place at EM road race and
at the start and that has extre- At VM, Mie Saabye pulled a fan- Pernille Mathiesen a 5th place at
mely intimidated them. EM ITT and a 10th place at VM
tastic top 10 in the road race (9th)
HAT nation cup In April has been on a course that was, on the pa- ITT. On the road race at VM,
a good race for the juniors to per, not for her. She shifted gear Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig missed
evaluate their level on the world after EM and managed to refo- “the good train”, and missed her
scene again. They need to keep cus and rebound higher. On the opportunity to enter the top 10.
working to improve their way out of VM, Mie went straight She proved good ability to lift the
strength, bike skills and tactic in away to YOUTH OL in Argentina leader status in the national
race, but in general they had a with Sofie Heby and they pulled team, but she fell on a tactic
better prestation than in Binda a very encouraging gold in the level. The team around Cecilie
and I encourage them to keep women team competition. Al- was very dedicated and that is a
faith and keep working. ways good for the moral and ga- very important point we take
from this season 2018.
The decision to take a Junior ve them the experience of such
team at EM in Brnò has been big event. In November we had a team
done late as the course was The 2 camps with the U15- U17 camp in Calp where I invited 6
extremely hard and we didn’t and U19 has been extremely po- elite and 4 juniors. The juniors
have a rider that could pull a sitive. The girls responded with a got really boosted to being able
result there. However, in the great engagement and focus. to train with the elite and to see
optic of development for the “how they do” in terms of food
and athletes life style. This has
been very beneficial for them.

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