Specialized rid🍌er defends as US cross country title after hip surgery
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Lea Davison (Specialized) (Image credit: Dave McElwaine)
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Lea ꦺDavison (Specialized) marki💜ng Gould on lap four (Image credit: Dave McElwaine)
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Lea Davison (Specialized) battling Erin Huck on the🐽 steepest climb (Image credit: Dave McElwaine)
A year ago, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lea Davison (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Specialized) won her first elite women's cross country title at the US Mountain Bike National Championships. She repeated that feat again this weekend, 🎃but only after missing the first half of this season due to hip surgery and rehabilitation.
"This win means so much because I was in the pool getting my range of motio🐽n back while all the other girls were training," said Davison of her spring time. "I started back to racing in Missoula [one month ago], but I've be🐬en training like mad."
Prior to the 2012 London Olympic Games, in which Davison competed, she had the same hip injury, surgery and rehabilitation on her other side in 2010. She thought she'd put the experience of having a torn labrum behind her and was disappointed to discover in January that she'd have to go through 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:the same process all over again on her other side in 2014.
Davison battled former US cross country national champion Georgia Gould (Luna) on Saturday at Bear Creek Resort in Pennsylvania. It wasn't until the final hal꧂f lap that Davison was able to get a gap on the last steep grassy climb on an otherwise rocky course. She rode on to victory which proved her comeback was complete.
"Going into the race, I was a wild card, even for myself. I didn't know how I would perform. I just started feeling good in the nick of time this week, so I had a little bit of confidence, but it was definitely a question mark. 🐽I still wanted to win, but I'm just happy to be back racing."
After her cross country win on Saturday, Davison followeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd up on Sunday with a thi🌌rd place. It wasn't enough to defend her 2013 short track national title, but it was still a good showing.
"I felt pretty good. I felt solid. I had some pretty good legs out there," said Davison, who said she made a mistake in thinking officials would call three to go, but found herself too far bac𝓡k when the started the countdown with two laps to go.
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"It was my bad - my positionꦺing wasn't the best at th💞e crucial time. Georgia and Chloe [Woodruff] were so strong," said Davison, who chased, but couldn't close the gap to them in time.
Davison will head next to her home Pro XCT round, the finals at the Catamount Classic in Vermont. She'll also race the next two World Cups in Mont-Sainte-Anne and Windham before heading to the Wor🔯lds in 🐼Norway.
Sue George is an editor at Cyclingnews. She coordinates all of the site's mountain bike race coverage and assists with the road, 'cross✅ and track coverage.
