Megan Armitage has said he wants to win races with her new team, EF Education-Cannondale, having just been signed to the US-registered women's squad for next year. The 27-year-old will leave Arkéa Pro Cycling at the end of the year, having joined the French team after a promised two-year contact with B&B Hotels-KTM collapsed when the team imploded last winter.
While Armitage has already won two races this year, she has said she wants to regularly reach that level and take more victories, as well as helping her team to achieve major success.
“I remember when I started cycling, I just loved the kit,” Armitage said of the team she is now joining. “I thought it was the best kit ever. And now, when I spoke to Esra (Tromp, EF Education-Cannondale team manager) about the team and the project, I loved her idea that we should mix striving for really great results and have fun at the same time.
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"It is so easy to get bogged down in numbers and watts and data and lose why you started cycling in the first place. If you are not happy on the bike, then you are not going to be getting results, and I want to be doing this for years and years. So to have the opportunity for these coming seasons to be on a team where we look at both sides of the equation is pretty incredible. I am lucky.”
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Now aged 27 years, and having ridden her first UCI-ranked race in Europe only two years ago, Armitage believes the fact she is getting going in the pro peloton a bit later than others can really help her.
“Having come into the sport a bit later, and maybe having a little more maturity, will help me to keep my head on my shoulders and deal with the more stressful sides of the sport,” she said. “Having a university degree and knowing that there is life outside of this sport is also important, because it is so easy to get consumed by it and let it become your whole life.
“I want to get to the point where I can win races. I want to win. I want to be on a winning team. And I just want to enjoy myself and keep progressing. I have so much to learn, having come to the sport quite late.
"So having a home for the next years where I can learn from other riders who have been in the game for a lot, lot longer than me and learn from the directors and Esra and even the guys on the men’s team will be pretty cool. So for me, it is just continuing to improve and winning.”
