4-Person Breakaway, Long Beach Criterium, 1994

I believe this was one of the many Long Beach Criteriums that Maura raced.   What I remember on this particular day was she got in a breakaway with two sponsored racers from the LA Sheriff's Team and Saturn and a national champion.  Early March brought a lot of strong women to Southern California, in preparation for the Redlands Stage Race, the first big race in the national calendar.

At Traveltown, 2000

Tori, Sam and Maura at Traveltown in Griffith Park.  This is during Sam's second birthday celebration in the famous train museum in LA called Traveltown.  The gift is a Thomas The Tank Engine playset.

Familiar Sight

At the end of every race, I would normally just go back the car waiting for her.  This sight, where she stops, unclip her shoes off the right pedal and walk towards the car for her cold drink is a routine we did just about every time I went with her.  The maroon bike is her Cannondale aluminum frame with she raced between the Look and the Trek carbon bikes.  She never liked the ride of the aluminum frame for road races is the reason she went back to racing carbon fiber frames.

Altitude 9000 Race, Mammoth, California 1993

Guess why they call this the Altitude 9000 race?  The 48 miles race has over 5000 feet of climbing that starts from the town of Bishop and finishes at the Mammoth Ski Resort.  Altitude 9000 is only one of 5 races in the 4-day Mammoth Stage Race.  Most of the races were at altitude and for some reason, Maura was never bothered by the altitude at all.  In the picture above, guess who was leading the women's pack in that pink helmet up Sherman Grade to Mammoth?

Tour Of The Gila Race Number

Maura saved just some of the dozens of race numbers over the years.  She saved this one from the multi-day stage race in Silver City, New Mexico called "Tour Of The Gila".

23.72 MPH

This is actually not a straight course so the corners are a little tricky but she managed to average 23.72 miles per hour for 10 miles.  Telo is a course in Torrance that was a club time trial venue when we belonged to the South Bay Wheelmen.