Pua second at XCT Womans Pro Tour!

This Saturday was the first of the USA Cycling Pro XCT (pro mountain bike tour) in Fontana, California. We were excited to finally have Pua go against all the best from the US, Canada & even some from Europe. The course was very technical and in only 4.2 miles had over 750' of climbing.

Pua (Okolestuff.com/INFINIT) has just started her speed training after a solid winter full of long base training, so now it was time to see how she staked up against everyone else.

The start of the race was not good for Pua, she made a couple of mistakes off the line and ended up at the back of the field going into the first climb of the day. She did not let that get to her at all and one by one she picked off the riders and made her way up to 6th place in the first of 4 laps. Each lap she moved up and going into the last lap she was in second place, just about a minute behind the leader Lene Byberg from Norway.

Lene had a good gap from the beginning and Pua could not catch her as the two of them moved around the course at the same pace. In the end Pua finished just over a minute behind the XC silver medalist from Norway and well over a minute in front of the Bronze medalist (Willow Koerber, Subaru/Gary Fisher) from the US.

Great job Pua!!!