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Baby steps

● I gave birth to my daughter, Orla, in 2018. I was very open-minded about how long it would take me to return to racing. I thought it would be about nine months post-partum, but I ended up racing seven months later.

My fitness came back a lot quicker than I expected, although my race fitness was definitely a bit rusty. In June 2019 I won the Women’s Tour. That was a big surprise! It was seven stages, and it was as though every race day

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