Tour ta' Malta: Stage 2

In the blazing sunshine and scorching heat, today's stage took us six times around the St Martin circuit. The first climb saw the field scattered and Iona, riding onto the leader's wheel, soon found herself in the break. Steph and Alice formed a chasing group with one member of the Dutch team and another Maltese rider.

It was a tough course - made even tougher by the heat. All four girls worked really hard - Iona again making it onto the podium (in third place) with Alice and Steph taking 4th and 5th.

Big thanks to Elaine for handing out bottles and to Jon and Steve for all their encouragement and support.

Tomorrow we're off to Gozo and it's going to be an early start...