Wind, wind and more wind

Emma Trott's teammate, Dutch champion Loes Gunnewijk, made the winning break on stage2.

Emma Trott's teammate, Dutch champion Loes Gunnewijk, made the winning break on stage2. (Image credit: CJ Farquharson/WomensCycling.net)

So the second stage for me personally, should we say, was not great!

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After spending two years with the Moving Ladies Team, 21-year-old Emma Trott steps up in 2011 having signed with the powerhouse Nederland Bloeit team, led by UCI number-one ranked rider Marianne Vos.

Trott put in a solid 2010 season, highlighted by a time trial victory in the Czech Republic's Gracia-Orlova stage race, where she bested future teammates Vos and Annemie Van Vleuten. Her season was soon interrupted, however, as she was one of five British national team riders hit by a car while training in Belgium.

Trott bounced back from her broken collarbone to place sixth in the elite women's British road nationals and later capture a British national time trial championship in the under-23 category.

Join the promising British rider as she takes on her first race with Nederland Bloeit: the Ladies Tour of Qatar.