LAURA TROTT had to fight back the tears after riding the roads of Monmouthshire and taking the 2014 National Road Race crown. Double Olympic Games gold medalist Trott also bagged a second National jersey by winning the Under-23 title to add to her day of triumph. And, the triple crown was achieved as her Wiggle Honda team-mate Dani King claimed second place in the Elite Women's race as defending champion Lizzie Armitstead finished in third. It was a brilliant ride by Trott over the 105.4kilometre course that started in Abergavenny and saw the riders travel through Usk and Monmouth before enduring tough climbs and undulating roads all the way back to four finishing laps around Abergavenny. Trott said, "When we went up the hill at around 16k, all I was thinking was Lizzie was going to fly home. I was so out of puff and she was just dancing up it and I was thinking 'Oh god, here we go. This will be a hard race.' "Lizzie attacked quite a long way out with three laps to go but then she came back and it played into my hands. You never expect to win against someone like Lizzie. She is amazing, so for her to go a bit too early was a mistake and helped us, I guess." Trott said she managed her way up those tough climbs with the help of others, including Sharon Laws, who finished fifth, and Emma Pooley, who won Thursday's National Time Trial Championships, also around Monmouthshire. The Olympic ace added, "When I was on the hills, I tried to get on Sharon or Emma's wheel - Sharon in particular as she is a really steady rider and would ride smoothly up to the person who has attacked. "Up hills, I can't really jump (attack). I am more the person who will ride up them so I tried to follow as best I could. It was really tough for me because I am not a climber so I was just looking for the top of the hill and once I got there, I could change gear and freewheel my way down." Trott, who won her Olympic golds on the track, has admitted that she does not like road racing but now she is enormously happy to have taken not just one but two red, white and blue jerseys to wear on the global circuit for the next year. She laughed, "It is weird. I still don't like the road but now I get to start at the front so I am well happy about that! It is unbelievable for me." King closed the gap on Armitstead and Trott admitted that those two could easily have been battling for first place instead of her. "With Dani jumping over to Lizzie, I shouted 'go' as I could see her and I was not strong enough to go myself. That could have been the winning move and we would have been happy for each other, whoever won. "But then it was coming into the home straight and Dani hit it first at about five hundred metres. I thought that was a long way and Lizzie went really early as well and it opened up for us." King, 23 and herself a London Olympic Games gold medalist on the track, was delighted for her partner and said the race had been worked out in detail beforehand. And there was a double triumph for new rising star Katie Archibald. This year's World Championships Team Pursuit gold medal winner stormed to second place in the Under-23 category by taking fifth place in the Elite Women's race, with Cardiff's Elinor Barker, who was with Archibald in that World Championships quartet, taking the bronze medal.