Thursday, May 9 is Bike to Work Day all over the SF Bay Area! All are encouraged to participate. Local bicycle coalitions and businesses will be hosting “Energizer Stations” where you can stop, rest, and refuel on the way. Check your local bicycle coalition website for the locations of energizer stations on your route.
San Fransisco Energizer Stations
Don’t forget this month’s club meeting – Monday, May 6 at the Belmont Public Library.
Our guest speaker this month will be Dr. Naomi Albertson, family practice physician and sports medicine specialist at Kaiser Permanente in San Mateo. She’s qualified to do performance testing and analysis such as VO2max, and LT testing and has also covered sports teams and events for the US Olympic committee, Pac 10, and Cat 1/2/3 Cycling Events, Ultra Endurance events and Ironmans nation wide. Her presentation will cover nutrition/hydration and sports injury revention, topics which are of particular importance to us during the height of our racing/riding season. All club members are encouraged to attend.
May 4, 8:15am – The monthly no-drop “Coffee Ride” will start from Canada Road and Rt 92. This ride will depart with the weekly “one-wait” ride, then re-group at Roberts Market in Woodside and continue from there. The ride strives to go slower and longer than the one-wait group ride and will wait for dropped riders and riders with mechanicals.
The Coffee Ride is targeted at newer riders looking for some more fitness or/and group riding experience before joining the regular club ride, non-club riders looking for an introductory ride, and more experienced riders who want to get some base miles in their training. The pace and duration should fit squarely as a base ride in a more experienced riders training calendar, or as a challenging but very achievable ride for a less experienced rider- and of course, it’s ‘no-drop’, so the pace changes to accommodate. If you know someone who is considering joining the club, but would like to ease into it, please send them our way.
Dr. Naomi Albertson, Sports Medicine Physician at Kaiser Permanente San Mateo, will be speaking about sports injury prevention and treatment at our May 6 club meeting. The meeting will be held at the Belmont Public Library at 7:30pm.
The schedule and depart location will be slightly modified to accommodate the team photo shoot at the Pulgas Water Temple. So for April 6th, the Coffee Ride will depart from the Pulgas Water Temple on Canada Rd at 9am (or as the photo session ends). We will not do the usual regroup at Roberts.
The water temple is located here..
Details of the photo session are here..
And the route we generally take is here..
The Coffee Ride is targeted at newer riders looking for some more fitness or/and group riding experience before joining the regular club ride, non-club riders looking for an introductory ride, and more experienced riders who want to get some base miles in their training. The pace and duration should fit squarely as a base ride in a more experienced riders training calendar, or as a challenging but very achievable ride for a less experienced rider- and of course, it’s ‘no-drop’, so the pace changes to accommodate. If you know someone who is considering joining the club, but would like to ease into it, please send them our way.
Everyone’s is probably beginning to get spring legs, and a little punchiness is allowed on the Coffee Ride, but let’s try and leave the LT efforts to tues/thurs…
Just a final reminder that the annual club photo shoot will be this Saturday, April 6, 2013 at the Pulgas Water Temple on Canada Road. Current District and National Champions should wear their champion’s jersey. Otherwise, come dressed in the current team kit. If you wish to bring your children (in appropriate PV attire, of course) please feel free to do so. Details are as follows:
Date: April 6, 2013
Time: 8:30-9:00am
Location: Pulgas Water Temple, Canada Road (map)
Logistics: Your best bet is to meet at the usual Saturday group ride start (Canada and 92, 8:15am) and ride to the Water Temple. Otherwise, be sure to arrive at the Water Temple at 8:30am.
Club photo, race team photos, and a few other shots will be taken.
In the case of inclement weather, the make-up day is Sunday, April 7.
This month’s club meeting will feature Leah Shahum and Karren Shorofsky of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Leah is the the executive director at the SFBC, and Karren is on their BoD as well as a serious road cyclist.
Although PenVelo as a club is primarily focused on performance cycling, we all spend a lot of time riding out on the roads. And that’s where the Bike Coalition comes in. They live and breathe bicycle advocacy in the Bay Area so that all of us can ride safer out on the roads.
In order to create a presentation of maximum interest to our club, Leah has asked that we fill out a quick survey at (should only take about a minute):
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/recride
The meeting will be on April 1 (no April Fool!) at 7:30pm in the Taube Room at the Belmont Public Library.
Coming Soon: Mark your calendars for the annual club photo shoot on Saturday, April 6 at the Pulgas Water Temple. Start with the group ride leaving Canada & 92 at 8:15am and pull off at the Water Temple for photos. Please wear the current team kit.
Clocks were set ahead one hour this past Sunday, so the Tuesday/Thursday group rides will start this week. The rides start at Canada Road and Rt 92 at 6pm. These rides occur March through October, when daylight savings time is in effect. Note, this time span largely coincides with the Racing Season. These rides are very fast paced with a great deal of aggressive riding.
Commissioner Randy Smith announced the final results of the 2013 February mileage challenge at the March 4 club meeting. Prizes were awarded to the PV club members who rode the most miles in each week of the challenge, as well as to the member with the most miles for the month and the female member with the most miles.
The winners are:
Overall: Chris Evans (1151 miles)
Overall Female: Yvonne Walbroehl (832 miles, 5th place overall)
Week 1: Jason Bradeen (336 miles)
Week 2: Markus Roccaro (285 miles)
Week 3: Chris Evans (278 miles)
Week 4: Storrs Hoen (304 miles)
Chris’ coveted “Golden Saddle” trophy will be on display at Summit Bicycles until next year’s challenge. Bottom line: we rode a lot of miles in February! It was announced that a club climbing challenge will be held, most likely in April. Stay tuned for more details.
Also at the meeting, sports journalist Bruce Hildenbrand gave a great presentation of stories and photos from the Cannondale Pro Cycling training camp which was held in Southern California in January.
At the next club meeting on April 1, we will have a speaker from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to talk to us about bicycle advocacy. More details will be available soon.
One last reminder – Bruce Hildenbrand will be at Monday’s club meeting with lots of photos and stories to share from the recent Cannondale Pro Cycling training camp held in California.
Also, Randy Smith will be announcing the winners of the PV mileage challenge held in February!
Meeting will be at 7:30pm at the Belmont Public Library.