Kirsti Lay announces retirement from competitive cycling
MEDICINE HAT, AB —Cyclist Kirsti Lay is calling it a career.
The 31-year-old, who was born in Medicine Hat, made the announcement on Twitter on Monday.
“I had a baby in June, and he’s three months now, and I just really fallen in love with being at home and being a mom,” she said over the phone from Calgary. “Being an Olympic year, it would be quite a lot of time on the road, probably three or four months away. I think you don’t realize how much having a baby impacts you until you have one. I know it sounds cliche to say, but I wasn’t willing to sacrifice that time away, and even just cart him around and have my hubby miss out on all the stages he was going to go through in his first year.