Tasmania's female cycling teammates are returning home after mixed fortunes in overseas races.
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Most are plotting a course for northern New South Wales where they will be reunited in the Tour de Tweed National Road Series opener.
"We've had some good and not so good results while we've been away," said Launceston's Lauren Perry.
After a glut of minor placings, Perry finally made her way onto a podium in the 10-day Intelligentsia Cup in Chicago.
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In the final-round William Blair Grand Prix, Perry finished third from an elite women's field of 48.
Heaping praise on her Fast Chance teammates, Perry said: "It was so nice to finally be on the podium again after so many fourth and fifth places this year. It's been an awesome week for us."
The 23-year-old former junior track world champion has contested 29 races across the US since the beginning of June.
Several of Perry's TIS Racing teammates have been in Europe.
Victorian Ruby Roseman-Gannon, 20, and Catelyn Turner, 17, of Exeter, both tasted success in Belgian races with Roseman-Gannon winning the 68km Boezinge Criterium and Turner coming third in a junior race.
But there was an unhappy ending for Launceston's Oceania Road Championship silver medallist Nicole Frain who suffered a badly gashed leg followed by a broken collarbone in a couple of crashes.
With Frain injured and Roseman-Gannon studying at university, Perry and Turner will team up with Devonport's Anya Louw at the Tour de Tweed under the guidance of experienced coaches Dave Walker and Janelle Smith.
Spain barrier
Fresh from Nathan Earle's successful return to the bike, another Tasmanian is making a comeback from major injury.
Six weeks after sustaining a fractured collarbone and scapula in a big crash at the end of the final stage of the Tour of Belgium, Campbell Town's Will Clarke is back in the saddle.
The Trek-Segafredo teammate of Richie Porte has been resuming training rides around his European base in the Spanish city of Girona.
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Rob Shaw
Heralding the impact of Tasmanian sport without saying "punching above its weight" is not as easy as it sounds.
Heralding the impact of Tasmanian sport without saying "punching above its weight" is not as easy as it sounds.
