“Well it happened quite fast, but because I’m old, it’s probably good that it did happen quite fast. Otherwise, I would never have seen what I have seen. I think the most exciting thing was getting the chance to race in Europe and starting that.”
She spoke to Cycling Central from a recent training camp with her Orica-AIS team-mates in Italy.
“When I visited my husband, I was living in New Zealand and he was in Australia, he would go out mountain biking with a friend and I would feel left out. He said to come along, so I borrowed a bike and went.”
“I had a lot of fun and I was quite good at it compared to the guys. So he bought me a mountain bike and then he said I needed a road bike. I said I didn’t need one, but he still bought me one, then I got a better one. He kept on pushing me a bit and eventually he said I should do racing. So I got a three day licence and started racing in 2011.”
It has been a rapid rise since those humble beginnings for Garfoot, with an explosion onto the National Road Series in 2013, winning stages and race overall en-route to the series victory. She quickly picked up by Australian squads heading to Europe and after she impressed there in 2014 she has steadily progressed to the point where she now regularly contends for wins against the best in the world.
REPORT: Strong ride by @Katrin_Garfoot to finish 8th in La #FlècheWallone Féminine. More: https://t.co/6FQYMpd6Cm 👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/ETGM2Wcdtj
— ORICA-GreenEDGE (@ORICA_GreenEDGE) April 20, 2016
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