Cycling Weekly

Anna Henderson

The week: 14-20th June, 2020

Location: Chiltern Hills, Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire

Training for: Post-lockdown return to racing

Twenty-nineteen was a breakthrough year for Anna Henderson: she won the national under-23 champs TT and road race, was Britain’s highest finisher in the Worlds road race, and also picked up bronze in the Worlds mixed team relay – all of which earned her a WorldTour contract with Sunweb. The 21-year-old made her WT debut at the Women’s Tour Down Under, before Covid-19 brought racing to a halt. Here, she talks us through a week of lockdown training from last month.

How did you find lockdown in terms of keeping motivated?

I was at home in the UK with

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