January 27

I have started a team blog here:   Cumberland Cycles Crew Racing Team  You may find race flyers - club ride info and other stuff!  It is not real fancy but it will serve our purposes!  Please feel free to send photos and other information you'd like to see posted on our blog!  It will get better as time goes on.

NEW BUSINESS
Cumberland Cycles will be making a jersey order soon.  If you don't have a Cumberland Cycles Jersey - be sure to pick one up as soon as you can.

Our team member Brad seems to have very good knowledge of sports nutrition.  If you have any questions about such matters - please contact Mark Travis who will get you in touch with Brad.

OLD BUSINESS
I don't suppose any comes to mind -
 
RECENT RIDES:
Harvey and JT and Walter (JTs Dad) rode about 20 miles Wednesday afternoon out to the winery and back to Shopeville School!  It was a very nice ride even though it was cold and overcast - the company and conversation was warm and heart lifting.

Brad and JT rode 1003/1675 in a timed effort for Brad on Friday.  It was a sunny day but very cold!  In this - his baseline effort - Brad posted a very respectable time!  We are very excited to have Brad ridding for us this year -

On Saturday six Cumberland cycle crew members rode the 1003/1675 loop (42 miles).  Charles (Sir Hammer) set a very brisk early pace and the ride continued at a high pace the entire ride!  Adam is back riding with us again and it is very good to have him. His ability to climb punished the entire group the whole ride.  He took six weeks off the bike to train for a marathon and it seems that he didn't loose an ounce of his strength!  This was a very progressive ride and everyone rode very well! I came away from the ride thinking that we truly are beginning to form a powerful group of riders!!!  I really appreciate "Sir Hammers" aggressive style in our recent rides. The pressure Charles brings to the rides lately leaves all of scrambling for a "wheel" right off the bat and that is good for all of us!   Combine this with his general knowledge and enthusiasm of cycling - including MT biking and Sir Hammer (Charles) is certainly one of our key riders!  No wonder I had heard so much about him last fall!

Thursday night indoor training at Total Rehab has been a success and several crew members are showing up for that.  Thanks to Jeff P.  for opening his facility for the "crew"!

UP AND COMING TEAM/CLUB RIDES:
Thursday - February 1 - Indoor Training at Total Rehab @ 830 PM Thursdaynights

Wednesday- January 31:  Harvey and JT will ride  @230 PM from the vision center

Friday- February 2:  Brad and JT will ride at 1030 AM from the vision center

Saturday - February 3:  Cumberland Cycles Crew will Sponsor a "foundation" ride  beginning at 9AM (weather permitting = temps greater than 40 F) @ 9 AM from Barnsburg Church - contact Mark Travis at Cumberland Cycles for directions. This will be a group ride averaging 10-15 mph with no attacking allowed!  Distances will be from 10 to 15 miles and is specifically designed for anybody who is just beginning cycling or who is just beginning cycling for the year. This is called a "foundation" ride because we want to offer new or old/new riders a way to build up their own personal foundations in cycling.  Saturdays ride will be sponsored by JT - call him at 606-215-8307 if you are interested.

Saturday - February 3 - General Club Ride at 12 Noon - 60 miles from the Vision Center
Sunday - February 4 - General Club Ride at 130 PM - 25-40 miles
Saturday - February 10 - Godzulla Road Race - Cincinnati - This is a training  session for us- Cumberland Cycles will not be contesting this race.  We simply want to show up and ride in the wheels.  Anybody interested in going - we will try to arrange for group transportation or caravan - here is the flyer:  http://www.godzulla.com/schabobele/schabobele_flyer.pdf


TEAM UNIFORM
see Mark Travis at Cumberland Cycles

YELLOW FLAG CLUB RIDE/FOUNDATION RIDE
If you are a beginning cyclist or simply have not  been training for a while - please join us for a foundation ride on Saturday - February 3 at 9 AM from Barnsburg Church.  If the temps are not predicted to be above 40 F by the start time of the ride - it will be canceled. This will be a completely non-agressive ride consisting of 10 to 15 miles at a tolerable place.

As the days get longer - we will schedule many more foundation rides!!!  But for now - we will have at least one ride every weekend until the weather and daylight time improves!  This weeks ride will be hosted by JT -

RACES
see club blog under "other journals"

RACE CATEGORIZATION:
It looks as if we may have a large group of Cat V racers for our fist event!  February 10 will be our first road race and Harvey- Jack - Jeff - Brad and Charles will all be racing 40 miles together!!!  Even though this is a designated team-training race - with that many riders- perhaps something could land in our laps!!!!!!  At the same race - JT will be racing alone as a cat II in a 63 mile race.

You may either buy a lic on the day of the race or you may go to USAcycling and purchase an annual lic

With this race less than 200 miles away from Somerset- we will plan to leave Somerset on the morning of the race and return the same day -
 
It is important for us to field as manycat Vs as possible in Feb because we need to start moving folks up into higher cats as soon as possible.

IN GENERAL
If you have any questions about bicycle road racing or training - please feel free to contact me or any other active cyclist that you know.  We have a great bunch of people riding for us and we are having a lot of fun!!!!  And we ain't even racing yet!

AS ALWAYS
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