Organisers of the Tour of California created a new three-day stage race for women ahead of this year's men's event in addition to its traditional one-day invitational time trial for women. The UCI-2.1 ranked event will include two stages near Lake Tahoe before the women join the men for a race in Sacramento.
14 teams were invited to the race, which totals 158 miles of racing on May 8-10.
The Velocio-SRAM of world time trial champion Lisa Brennauer will take part, as will UnitedHealthcare, Team Tibco-SVB, Twenty16-Sho-Air, Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies and and Alé-Cipollini.
