Here we are. 2008

Hello Crew! 

Barnsburg Time Trial Series
The time is upon us all - February 10th will be the first date of the 2008 Barnsburg Time Trial Series!!!  We will conduct this event every month from February until October. This year, the event will probably be sanctioned by the United States Cycling Federation (USCF/USA Cycling), and racers will be out to obtain fast times. But as always, and especially, it is open to everybody in our community who wants post an individual time for the eight mile course. As a club and team, we are more interested in having our community riders using this event as a gage to their own fitness over the next year than we are in attracting elite athletes. PLEASE COME OUT FOR THIS EVENT and complete the course the best you can... all year long!  Our racers will be out to compete, but our club and MTB athletes should use this event for what it is... an Individual Pursuit of fitness and health. Please come out and ride. Posting a time in this event is an individual show of support in our club and team and is not an easy thing to do.  Most of all, it is a show of support to your own cycling and fitness.

IT IS TIME FOR THE TEAM AND CLUB PHOTOGRAPH! 
Saturday,February 2 @ 4 PM @ Cumberland Cycles Bike and Skate Shop
Beer and Pizza afterwards at Burnside Pizza Pub

INVITATIONS:
Photo #1:  Everybody who has a bicycle and lives in South Central Kentucky and would like to support our team and club in this manner.  Come as you are.

Photo #2:  Everybody who supports the club and team in anycompetive or sporting manner (MTB, Multi-sport, Club, Tour, Sport, Track, Road Race or Multi-sport support swimmers or pure runners who have raced with our crew mates (and especially sponsors)).  This photograph will require some garment of Cumberland Cycles (except for sponsors)... If you don't have anything, we will find something for you if you want to come out!  Please just come out and we will get you in the photo!

Photo #3:  The Cumberland Cycles Road Roster. This includes everybody who will compete in a USA Cycling Event or multi-sport event in 2008 . Please wear the 2008 Team entire... Road or Multi-Sport.

Portrait Photographs:  As a road or multi-sport athlete, we will ask that we can take your individual photograph.... These photos will be used on our Internet Sites for race, team, and club promotion.  It will be used to "bio" our team and club.

WAXING POETICAL
Wow, we've come a long way in the last 12 months. We have had several road riders become ranked #1 in their categories in the state of Kentucky. At the State Championships, we had silver medals in both the road race and the crit. We have an individual (Aaron Denney) ranked #1 in his age/cat in the USA!  Our Barnsburg Time Trial Series attracted some very fast riders.  Roger Whitlock put a time trial team together to compete and they won first place!  We've sanctioned a cycling club and team and we were able to bring a national level race to Pulaski County on March 22, 2008.  Additionally, we had many team member compete in multisport events and either won or placed very highly  The credit for all of this goes to everybody who turned a bicycle crank for our club and team in the past five years!!!  Sport cyclists, mountain bikers, road cyclists and multi-sport athletes.  When I began cycling again eighteen months ago, I was very pleased to find a very active group, intact and motivated. Those fellows and gals kicked my butt for a period of time... and it was great. The Somerset/Pulaski County area has been a cycling community for much longer than my appearance on the scene and I appreciate everyone who has been cycling here so much.

There have been so many people involved in cycling here over the past five years, I can't hope to list them all. Some have come and gone. Others are very much still with us. Some have even moved to other towns and become very competitive on other cycling teams. And we have many new-comers, of which I am one.

Our Road and Multi-sport riders having executed such a wonderful 2007 season, our club and team have gained sponsors for the 2008 racing season to assist our area cycling athletes monetarily in getting to races this year. Our Title Sponsor is Cumberland Cycles Bike and Skate Shop.... and that organization supports us all in a nuclear manner. The bike shop keeps us on the road;  keeps us all abreast of currentcycling technology and acts to keep all of the team and club riders in good mechanical condition.  In 2008, the bike shop will attend a number and races and will provide mechanical support as well as feed and moral support. Without our bike shop, it would be very hard to promote cycling in this area.

Our general Sponsors for the 2008 season have donated monies to be used by our cycling athletes. This money will assist our athletes in getting to completive events, offset the cost of our team and club uniforms and will aid in the pursuit of personal athletic advancement and general well being of several fine people. I am personally overwhelmed by the gracious contribution of our sponsors to our cause - personally fitness and well being  for our cycling community.

IF YOU HAVE EVER TURNED A BIKE CRANK IN PULASKI COUNTY, PLEASE COME OUT FOR OUR TEAM AND CLUB PHOTOGRAPH.  IT WILL BE A GLAD TIME..... The more folks we have, the better it will be for all of us!!!!!   If you don't have the 2008 Uniform, please bring the older gear.  If you don't  have the older gear, please wear what ever you want....  This is not just a cycling team.... it is not just a cycling club... it is a community...  and the only requirement for membership is a desire to support your fellow club mate/teammate - fellow human being.

If you come out for the photo, don't think of it as a team photo - think of it as your individual support in people who want to be the best they can be -including yourself. Think of it as supporting the people in your community who want to be as healthy as they can.

Saturday, January 26 - 4 PM at the bike shop.

After the photographs, for those who want to, the club will migrate down to the Burnside Pizza Pub and have dinner! 

RECENT TEAM AND CLUB RIDES RIDES    
The team has been training together every weekend and then some. Everybody is getting very strong and ready for the road racing season to begin.  Incidentally, our road season begins in three weeks and will continue every weekend until about October. Our Multi-sport athletes continue to train hard as well. I see many of them out running every day over even the coldest of days Our multi-sport athletes will begin their season a few weeks later than our road crew.

Our Mt. Bikers continue to ride up a storm.  "Unfortunately", they also take some of our roadbikers with them. I say unfortunately because this makes our road bikers a lot stronger, and much harder to handle on road rides!  Today, Trent Pool and our other MTBers from Somerset Community College hosted a ride out in the DBNF and our very own Marc Travis went with them. Apparently it was a very scenic ride, very cold and difficult!  These six MTB folks digested portions of the Cane Creek Wilderness, consuming 10 or 12 miles of rugged trails under a delightfully cold, but sunny winter sky. I can't even imagine how beautiful it must have been.

OUR RACE
The Cumberland Cycles Bicycling Club and Team are hosting a Kentucky/Indiana Spring Series Race on March 22. This is a nine race series that ranges from Owensboro, Kentucky to Henryville, Indiana, to Somerset, Kentucky. While the competitors are not required to participate in all nine events, the Series will crow a Champion in each category based on points acquired in each event. This is a very prestigious early spring cycling series that has been going on for 28 years. As it turns out, our race will award Lance Armstrong Junior Olympic Points!  As a club, we are very proud to be hosting a race of this caliper in 2008. 

We have had generous support from Businesses in the Somerset Community for this race. Brad Herrman and Charles Senters, two of our club officers, have been working many hours, submitting numerous permits, meeting with DOT officials, speaking with and emailing USA Cycling personnel to get everything organized. NOW WE NEED TO ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT!  Several of our team members will be racing in the event, but we would like to ask our MTB and Sport riders to volunteer to help marshal the race as we will need several dozen folks to pass the race off as a success.

Remember, we will have the highest caliper racers coming to Somerset.... and this race will probably be conducted for the next couple of years. Anything you can do to help out will enhance road cycling in our community greatly. Please contact Marc at the bike shop for more details on how to get involved.

Club links: 
Cumberland Cycles Crew Club Blog - Jt's road team page
Cumberland Cycles Club Page - Brad and Chuck's Club page
Cumberland Cycles Club Interactive Boards - Please Join and post your own messages
Cumberland Cycles Road Events

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