Success in August August started with a bang as I managed to get my hands in the air on stage 2 of the Junior Vuelta a Pamplona to give me my biggest win so far. I was really pleased with this ride as I wanted to do something at this race after going so well here last year so to get a stage win before going on to 5 th overall was perfect. The race was super tough with a stronger field and harder parcours than the 2018 edition. Stage 1 was super hard as due to a huge crash really early on that I was caught up in, I lost a lot of time and had to chase back on to the peloton solo on the first KOM. After some tough riding in the convoy I managed to get back into the very much reduced peloton but didn’t have the legs to make the small winning break that formed due to having to go so deep early on. I managed to rectify this frustration however on stage 2 as this was the stage that I won! The race split on this 2 nd stage after a very hard 1 st category climb ...
