Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Crew News - August 15

 
Hello Crew!

Barnsburg Rides
It appears that our non-racing crowd is far out numbering our racing crowd.  This is really very good.  Tuesday and Thursday nights at Barnsburg with the team ride are inevitably contested. And that is not always good for our crew. Yes, our racers need hard workouts, but we also need to foster development for our up-and-coming riders. I was really glad to see about 12 medium pace riders show up at Barnsburg tonight and go out for a ride. This is exactly what our club needs at this point in our first year.

I think we had about 20 riders out at Barnsburg tonight and that was great. The medium paced folks left out earlier but then the five racers left and caught up with them. Some of the mediums left that crew and joined the racers.... Three notable performances tonight were that of  Mr. Jay Garmann.   He placed the entire group under general attack and he has certainly gotten much stronger this summer!  We want to congratulate him and encourage him to keep coming out because he has the makings of a great racer. Dave Stewart and DR Swanner, our two top multi-sport athletes are getting very strong on the bikes.
 
We have a lot of riders who are doing very well. To see so many people showing up for our Barnsburg rides is just tremendously encouraging to me. We are going to have a great team next year, and it is going to be great fun!

Racing Crew Fall and Winter Outline
Race until September 15
October 6 - Annual Dinner
September 15 - November 1 causal rides occasionally, trout fish, hunting, what ever
November 1 - December 25:  team foundation -train as a group - everybody welcome
December 25 into 2008 - Team Development
First Race:  Godzula Cycling Challenges - Cincinnati - last of January
Kentucky/Indiana Spring Series - February
Weekend racing from February for the rest of the year

Races Up and Coming
BMW Classic: Scenic City Velo, Chattanooga, TN.
Barnsburg TT September 2
OTHER RACES: Cumberland Cycles Races

Tour De London - Kentucky Road and Criterium Championships - September 8+9

Online registration is now open!  Tour de London Downtown

The Tour De London will have a "citizens" category for anybody who has never raced. 

Cumberland Cycles
There are not very many races left in the year.  We have BMW in Chattanooga, at least one more club time trial, probably two, tour de London and then our own Burn side Race. Some of our club members have been extremely active this year and I am so very proud of what we have done here this year!  We have become noticed regionally in our races - and this is thanks to club members JT, Jack Evans, Aaron Denney, Brad Hermann, Adam Bourne, Roger Whitlock, Charlie Bailey and others.  We have several riders ranked #1 in the State of Kentucky in their age and cat divisions. What more could a team captain ask for? 

Let us now look to the Tour De London  - the Kentucky State Championships, and see if we can't pull off some really high finishes.

Annual Dinner
We will have our first annual dinner on October 6th at the Doolin House, in down town Somerset. We need for everybody to RSVP so that we know how much food to order!  We will send out RSVP instructions later.

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