Walking up the West Drive in Central Park on Tuesday morning with tea in her hands and a scarf around her neck, Evelyn Stevens stopped to chat with two women, former teammates, as they rested on a bench after their workout.

“We obviously had the best kits,” Ms. Stevens, 26, said of the women’s black-and-white racing uniforms. It was only last summer that three had raced together, but in that year, Ms. Stevens has gone from a novice rider to one of the nation’s best female racers.

“It’s hard to understand,” said one of the women, Kimille Taylor, who has been racing in New York for more than six years. “It’s not easy to win bike races.”

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