Tanya has been coming to my indoor Performance Cycling classes for one year. In the early spring 2007 she asked me to coach her for some real road racing. I then put her in contact with Claire House of the NorCal Velo Women's Racing Team for the camaraderie of racing on a team.

Tanya comes from a MBT background so I knew she would have some good skills and I would have to just work on the correct adaptations in her body pertaining to her power profile. Little did we know just how good. With various top-six placings in some major road races in the NCNCA district she pulled it out for the win when it counted the most, in the Women's Category 4 Championship Road Race on Mt. Hamilton, CA. For those of you in the know, this is an extremely hard course, even on a non-race day!