On September 17, the ACA held the annual road awards ceremony.  After a long season of road racing, Pam Leamons, Linda Bitner, and I went down to the ceremony to socialize and congratulate the other women we raced with this year.  We also knew that we were in for some awards ourselves.  Pam won first place for the Best All-Around Rider and the Best All-Around Team for the SW 55+ category.  Linda and I won second place for the Best All-Around Team for the SW 45+ category and I won third place for the Best All-Around Rider for the same category. 

Between the three of us, we raced over 65 road races from time trials (including a team win for the Haystack TTT) and criteriums to road races (Thanks Pam for doing Hugo with me!) and hill climbs (again, thanks Pam for doing Mt. Evans with me!).  We were proud to represent Echelon Energy Cycling Team for the road season.  I want to thank Linda and Pam for being so dedicated, strong, willing, and good natured about the season.  It was a tough season but having these two amazing women out there with me made it a great season.  Thanks Ladies.  I have attached a photograph of us with our awards that was taken at the Blue Sky Velo cyclocross race last weekend.  We are four women strong for cross this year in the SW 35+ category- Pam, Linda, Cindy Milnick (she’s back!), and me.