Flora Duffy’s Colorado University Cycling Season is some five weeks away, but her and her teammate are one if the teams that is being talked about in the preseason.
Former Olympian Triathlete Duffy began bike racing with Colorado University last year and had been a very powerful force in the A Division. Duffy’s training has her in top notch form and will no doubt be dominant this year.
A lot of last year's team is still around and looking strong - Kim Trenbath, Nora Olson, Natalie Koch, and some others. Megan Cole has made a good recovery from her very scary crash at Nationals in Fort Collins last year and should be pretty strong again last year.
Coach Margell Abel did a great job with scheduling training rides for the Girl's squad last year, and has been keeping that up this year. She has also been working really well with a large number of newer members this year, focusing on improving pedaling, pace lining and hill climbing techniques. New member Heather Fischer formerly ran cross-country and has just decided to give road racing a try. Her fitness is clearly there and it shouldn't be long before she learns some race tactics and moves up from B's to A's. Luke Amer's sister Tess just started at CU. She's already familiar with some of the tactics of racing, and cycling speed is definitely in the family genes.
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