La Vuelta Femenina 2023 Retrospective

The Poetry of the Race

TTT

The leisurely sun-drenched seaside city
belies the heart-bursting effort
of the team time trial thrashing through its streets.
The riders seem calm enough
on this opening day in spring-softened Spain,
not yet carved by the sharp-end of hard miles,
not yet carrying the heat and scars
of furious grand tour racing.
Not yet ready to accept where they’v…