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July 2nd. July 1st. Fitchburg, Massachussets. The
women's team ended up with a number of podiums and look well
prepared for Nationals.
 The
race started with a win in the time trial by the women's team! Anna
Milkowski got first, and Kathleen Billington pulled second, with
Hiroko fourth and Rebecca Much fifth. Anna Milkowski and Kathleen
Billington continued to ride strongly, getting 2nd and 5th in the
tough circuit race, with Kathleen winning the points jersey
as well. Anna thus got to wear the leaders jersey for a second
day going into the road race. Rebecca and Hiroko finished in the
bunch, and all the other riders (Nina, Arielle and Yarden) were able
to complete the circuit within the cutoff. Anna Milkowski, riding
2nd in GC, sacrificed by trying to pull back what became the winning
break. Kathleen Billington, wearing the points jersey, but
known as a climber, waited until the hill to make her move and got
3rd up the hill or 5th on the day to apparently secure the 3rd spot
in GC. She also held on to the sprinters jersey going into
the criterium. It looked as if GC was now out of reach for the
TARGETRAINING women, but perhaps another stage win as well as the
points jersey was there. In the criterium race there was
chaos and carnage (Nina Santiago crashed after sacrificing herself
for the team doing sprint point leadouts and appears to have
fractured her wrist). Delivering on her end, Kathleen
Billington won the women's sprinters jersey. However, when Nina
crashed in front of her, Kathleen got gapped in the criterium and
slipped to 5th in the GC. Anna Milkowski, after riding a
ferocious race and wearing the GC leader's jersey for two days,
got 8th in GC. Arielle Filliberti, showing promise got 9th in the
criterium. Yarden Golan, who also rode a good race in the criterium
called to say that all was good. Despite finishing last in GC, she
was able to complete her first stage race ever (and a Pro/Cat 1/2
event at that). And Rebecca also finished the race; a good
showing by all.
June 24th. Nature Valley Grand Prix, Minnesota.
Update from Robin Farina. "Wow today (Saturday) was a toughie! 86
miles with a beast of a climb in the finishing circuits. We did the
hill 4 times in the closing circuits. Kathleen was our top finisher
today emerging from the pack to get up the climb 1:01 behind the
leader. Anna and i were in a chase group that were 8 seconds off her
pack at 1:09. The other girls finished well. Tomorrow is a
crit but it's not really a crit. There is a very steep climb in it
and the length of the course is 1.2 mile long. It will be crazy
hard!!!! GC will be mixed up tomorrow. The GC rundown is as follows:
Anna is sitting 19th. I am 22nd. Kathleen is 36th. Andrea - 73rd.
Rebecca - 74th. Arielle - 87th. Yarden, who crashed in stage 1,
is spending time with her family here in MN and is doing just fine.
She is looking forward to Fitchburg. She has been training."
" June 22nd. Nature Valley Grand Prix,
Minnesota.
The second stage turned out to be both good and bad for
the women's team. Report from Greg Wolf, race director. "We
had the whole team in there coming into the finishing circuit. We
started the day in 6th place overall as a team and were ready to go
for it. The race was rode out and back with 5 finishing circuits.
With 2 finishing laps to go out of 5 (2 miles a lap) Arielle was
taken down which took Kathleen down at the front. Kathleen was
riding very well and was one of the top overall hopes for the race. Arrielle
was riding very well as well being only 19. Rebecca and Andrea went
back for Kathleen and tried to get her back on but it was too fast
that last lap and she lost time. Anna and Robin were in the group
soundly and tomorrow's Time Trial will open up the race a hair, but
the most decisive days will be Saturdays Road race and Sundays very
hard circuit deciding the overall. We will be trying to still chase
a stage result though."
June 21st. Nature Valley Grand Prix, Minnesota. The TARGETRAINING women's team has ventured to race in
in Minnesota: Kathleen, Robin, Anna, Andrea, Yarden,
Rebecca, and guest rider Arielle Filiberti. The
first day found Robin, Anna and Kathleen staying in the
main pack, about 30 seconds off the breakaway group. The
women finished 6th in the team standings (out of 16
teams). Today's race (results not yet in) was a 60 mile
grueling road race with lots of wind. More to come
shortly on how our tenacious women did.
June 17th. Mandy Lozano in a 30 mile solo effort
won the Housatonic Hills race, and Kathleen
Billington (2nd overall) won the Connecticut road race
title. Rebecca Much got 8th.
Mandy in the Montreal World Cup by Marcus Urban
www.marcusurban.com
June 15th. Housatonic Hills weekend and final preparation for
Nature Valley Grand Prix. TARGETRAINING will be sending a
full squad to Nature Valley, including Kathleen, Andrea, Robin,
Mandy, Yarden and Anna.
June 10-14th. Prince Edward Islands, Canada. UCI Stage Race.
Hiroko
gained a top 50 stage race finish (43rd overall) and Andrea Meyers
also showed form along with guest riders Kim Blodgett (Rhode Island)
and Sylke Wunderwald (Germany). The team earned 11th place against
world class competition (just behind Colavita). We hope that
Hiroko qualifies again for the Japanese National team.
June 10th. Allyson Brandt earned 15th, Kathleen Billington
32nd, Robin Farina 33rd and Leigh Valetti 35th in the Liberty
Classic in Philadelphia.
 Photo ©:
Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us
June 7th. Robin Farina was aggressive throughout the race and
earned a hard fought for 15th place. Rebecca Much is shadowing
Ina "I win everything" Teutenberg below.
Photo ©: Kurt Jambretz/www.actionimages.cc
June 5th. Le Tour du Grand Montréal - 2.1, Canada, June 4-7,
2007. Stage 2 Granby, 104 km.
 The The first
attack of the day was from Anna Milkowski (Target Training Womens
Team)Photo ©: Andrea Brewer Photography/www.andreabrewer.com
June 3rd. The women's team split into two squads, one
going to Montreal to do the World Cup and the Montreal Stage Race
and the other to do CSC, Lancaster and Redding. This
weekend, TARGETRAINING's US squad earned good billing by
placing Robin Farina in the winning break in Lancaster, only to see
her get a flat with 3 laps to go. Leigh held on for 16th
place, and the newest rider on the team (Israeli National Team who
arrived on May 31st), Yarden Golan, in only her second professional
race, held on to finish in an event that only 35 women completed.
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May 11th/Southern Trip: The team
completed their first extended road trip South to tackle the
National Race Calendar and earned one top 5 result.
April 15th:
Anna
Milkowski won the Bethel Spring Series by getting 2nd place in the
final race. Kathleen Billington took 1st place in the final race and
2nd overall in the series. It was pouring; TARGETRAINING
had three of the four riders who started (and
finished) this affair.
April 14th: Anna
Milkowski made the winning break in the Battenkill-Roubaix race on
April 14th. She got a well earned 2nd place behind a
hard-charging Heather LaBance from Advil-Chapstick. Kathleen
Billington won the field sprint for 4th place.
April 8th: The
US Open provided the first chance for the team to see how it
matches up against veteran competition from the US peloton
March 30th: Anna Milkowski brought her total to 3 wins out
of 4 for the Bethel Training Series on Sunday, April 1. No April
Fool’s joke here,
March 12th: On March 12th, TARGETRAINING sent its squad to
compete as the Schick-TARGETRAINING team in El Salvador.
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