Team Evergreen Racing Weekly News - Thursday February 28th, 2008

• Welcome to the TER weekly news.  This email news goes out to all team members early Thursday mornings.

• Team Store - the Team Store is closed.

• Team Kits – The Team has a limited size inventory of these items. If you wish to order additional Team kits: race jerseys, bib or non-bib shorts and socks, please fill out the additional order form (Page 4 of the TER 2008 Application) and mail it along with a check to Team Evergreen Racing (C/O Team Evergreen Racing, P.O. Box 3804, Evergreen, CO 80437) Make checks payable to: Team Evergreen Bicycle Club. If you have any questions regarding clothing, please contact Cory Kramer.

• Saturday Training ride - START TIME 10:00 AM. Gather at C-470 and Rooney Rd. Please arrive early enough to be ready to ride at 10:00 sharp.

• New Mid Week Training Ride - Wednesday training rides - If you're able to sneak out of work early, come share the pain with us. We meet at 3:30pm at Rooney and Morrison and loop back and forth in Bear Creek park so you can show up late and still meet up with the group.
  Contact Mike McKenna mikejavamck@yahoo.com home: 303 932-1958 cell: 303 847-6102 for more information.  Check the TER website for last minute updates on any training rides.

• Road Training in San Diego – I have signed up for a training camp the week of Mar 31 - Apr 4th.  I would welcome some TER company. 
  Contact Bob Campbell    Camp Details

• Wednesday Workout – Pyramid Intervals

This week’s interval workout is going to be a burner! This is one from Friel’s Training Bible.

You’ll need a watch or cyclometer with seconds on it as we’ll be building and then decreasing by 1 minute increments. A heart-rate monitor is helpful for this workout as well.

After a good 10 minute warm up with a couple short and intense efforts, we’ll start our first interval heading east on the ‘flat’ road going toward the dam within the park.

Intervals of 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 minutes long with recovery equal to the current interval duration. Cadence is very high (105+) and with a HR Zone 5 (90 – 100% of your max) as our target.

NOTE: If you want to use the hill for the shorter intervals, that’s fine. But the longer intervals will be best performed on flatter terrain to ensure that you can maintain a steady hard effort for the full duration.

Recover at lowest possible effort!!! You can circle back and ride slowly with the team here. Put zero effort into the riding during recovery. Make the intervals count.

Cool down for 10 minutes after the ride and take some time to stretch.

Happy Training, David

• ALL MOUNTAIN BIKE RACERS - I know there are still powder days ahead for you skiers, but we need to start thinking about summer race plans and schedules so we can begin soliciting commitments for MTB race teams for the 2008 Series at Winter Park and Mountain States Cup. Here are the schedules: (These are good to bookmark) Winter Park Series    Mountain States Cup.   Let's maintain our dominance at Winter Park and move up even higher at MSC! If you have any questions, please contact Ted Benning.

• Sponsorship survey - please take this 30 second survey to let us know your interest in our sponsorship offerings.

• Bicycle Colorado volunteer picture opportunity - Bicycle Colorado is seeking volunteers for pictures in their new membership campaign. We're seeking to photograph a group of cyclist for posters and handouts. Requirements: Member of Bicycle Colorado, about a hour of your time to for the photo shoot at the Bicycle Colorado office in downtown Denver. We're looking at doing this sometime in the second week of March. If interested, contact Rolo at or 303-417-1544 x16.

 If you have news to add for next weeks blast email send it to news@teamevergreenracing.com

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