#kari studley

[nicebikelike]

Redline’s Kari Studley in control in her title defense. Singlespeed Women. © Cyclocross Magazine

[womenscycling]

After lunch, we added to the organized city traffic chaos as we rode through Yanqing city to the course. It was awesome to be a part of the 40 rider parade that took both the full bike lane and a lane of traffic. And once we arrived at the course, it was game on for the course pre-ride race. The course was a fun mix of fast flat straightaways on a paver bike bike path paralleling the river, technical descents and ascents down and up the river path side slopes, two steep hillside stair sets that made me thankful for my long legs and the Great Wall hiking warm up, three river crossings over newly constructed bridges, and a FUN stair run-up fly-over that flowed into a mini-pump track style bumpy section that weaved around forest trees. I loved it and kept finding new excuses to take "just one more" lap on the course.

Kari Studley’s race report from China’s first-ever UCI cx event - Podium Cafe