05/13/2026
.rinaldo kicked off the 2026 season doing the Diamond Mountain Stage Race 💎⛰️ finishing in the top 10 the entire weekend! Here’s her race report:
“The crit was a super interesting course with sweeping turns and some pretty nice rolling hills. I spent most of the race covering a few short attacks and sitting on the front for the rolling sections and made it to the pack sprint in pretty good position. It’s been awesome to see how my sprint and short power have been developing recently.
The time trial was a pretty hilly out and back. I went out perhaps a little too hard at first due to a miss calculation in distance but ended up placing in the top 5!
The road race was about and hour and a half after the time trail, and despite being nervous about a very technical decent that ended in a hairpin and having the women’s field combined with the masters 60+ I was incredibly happy with how I did. I stayed with the front pack for the first lap and over half of the second, where I fell off. Thankfully I the chase group was not too far behind and I was able to stay with them and make up some pretty decent distance on the front group before the finish. I started my sprint maybe 5 seconds too early but ended up placing 6th which made me incredibly happy!”
