How we WON a NATIONS CUP- BTS of a GB CYCLING Race Trip

A look behind the scenes at the Piccolo Trofea Alfredo Binda, the first junior Nations Cup of the year. Course recce, pre race strategy, race footage and of course the post race pizza.

A huge thanks to everyone that made this weekends results possible: British Cycling and all the staff, Shibden Hope Tech Apex, Trinity Sports Management, Specialized, all the team and so many more.

The team for the race was: Cat Ferguson, Carys Loyd, Esther Wong, Arabella Blackburn and Abbie Miller.

To check out the nutrition products that fuelled Cat, Arabella, Esther and I, head to Secret Training’s website: https://www.secret-training.com/

My next european race is Ghent Wevelgem for Shibden Hope Tech Apex on the 21st April. To see how both the team and I get on, make sure to subscribe and check out my instagram: @imogen.wolff for more regular content. Peace out and thanks for watching✌️

Goddess welcome to the Vlog today we are in Italy for CH Al frea Brenda the first stop doing that it’s the first nation cup of the season so there’s there’s six nations cups in a year um and say that’s like the most important thing of the Year other than

Like what chance on European chances we’re not going into this year who’s going to win Milan Remo um mat V theol caty dog who’s going to win yeah that was a bit of D for got you Abby V Hy I’m going to say Ghana what’s your activation plan we

Are effort do some yours going do some efforts I’m going to do 5 minutes Progressive and then some Sprints what’s your I I won’t feel you f for out yeah should be good I’ve got the bike new bike so Mor’s good oh what’s your activation plan for

The Vlog uh so we’ve got 6C Sprints and a 5 minute effort oh it’s pretty S as me got three one minute efforts that’s my 5 minute effort done pretty spicy started off pretty easy and then yeah ended up pretty hard and that on the moon CL of the today this is just

The top we’re getting to yeah of course is nice it’s like hilly but not so much that it’s definitely going to break the bunch up it’s like hilly than it might or could be a break could be a reduced Bunch so yeah this L RAC I really like

So I’m really excited and you can’t see cuz the trees are in the RO typical but the views are really nice and this bike is yeah actually insane so thanks very much triny yeah I’m very grateful I’m just going to do a couple of Sprints and then

I reckon we’ll call it day I don’t want Do It um but yeah let just SE off woo go girl and yeah as you can see it’s absolutely beautiful like there’s the snow on the mountains in the background and yeah it’s ity is one of my favorite

Places to race hands down or just a holiday like we I mean sure which feels insane like oh the winter was long and it feels like we’re out the other side so yeah to say it’s night to be on the same I can’t lie and I am so

Ready to race five weeks without racing feels like an absolutey when you’re racing every weekend woo we’re on the pure protein diet so this is this is the last round yeah how you feeling how you feeling for the race feeling great hped we’re it’s quite

A good view it is beautiful here look at that now we’re all hyped here team presentation we just walked M and we’re all wrong it was yasper so thumbs down we thought Tom was going to get it yeah Tom nearly got it I’m sorry yeah two me

In about half an hour so get that done and then yeah early night our arms on at 5:20 5:20 tomorrow so yeah no I I have to eat at 5:20 so I think alarm’s going be on a bit earlier than that so I’ve just got 80 g of oats

And 50 GRS of raisins I think I want to say there’s five there’s binder Borel Spain France Watley maybe I’ve missed one out there but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head and they’re like the yeah the big races the

Races you want to do well in um cuz lots of teams are there all the best girls are there and so yeah first one tomorrow So it is 5:59 in the morning how we Feeling we HED what Ah super Megan up come On Come onbody you What a ride here we go what a race congratulations fantastic fantastic fantastic thank you congratul fantastic welcome to the Vlog tun it in I’ve done Dr from my first nation’s cup yeah win how does it feel I went so deep in that last 3K like woo yeah yeah I’m just it

Oh man being out front for that long how did you Pace it I didn’t I didn’t want to go that hard [Applause] off [Applause] I’m just heading back from do Crest in um which is actually my first time doing it which no one told me it was quite a complicated process but yeah I might to do it without the down me so that’s a win and yeah I’m just I’m so pleased I

Just felt I felt really I thought we were going to woke up yesterday morning with like a sore throat and sore glands and bloody here we go um but I’m really pleased like this last the last five weeks four of them have been super hard so yeah it’s

Been sort of feels like the work’s paying off so I’m yeah the girls a brilliant job of controling it behind and yeah time to get eaten the Italian pasta experience of your first Junior race like um it was very different very different compared to UK racing but how was your

Experience um Carnage bit choppy got crashes what products did you use in the race any brands of course uh my number one I had um two caffeine gels yes uh and one nor gel and 90 G of carbs in the Happ yes Caris what does it feel like to

Be the engine of the team what answer um feels good engine room can you zoom in t t quads can you zoom in has kicked in Caris just feeling fatigued ather yeah you how you feeling tired swinging chocolate C on tired Abby n good bye