Team Evergreen Racing Weekly News - Thursday March 20th, 2008

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

• TER is Open for new members - This email was sent to all current team members, as well as all active members of the Team Evergreen Bicycle Club email list that have selected "NewsRace" in their preferences.  If you want to change your preferences so that you don't receive this email each week, please click the link at the bottom of this email that says "preferences" and make the appropriate adjustments.

• Membership - If you are interested in learning more about the race team, please contact René.

• Team Clothing - Distribution of the Team kits will be this coming Saturday, March 22 at 9:00 to around 10:00 am - at the Morrison parking area where the TER training ride normally meets. If you did not pay extra for shipping your kit to you, it will be available there for pickup. If you paid the extra for shipping, I will not have it bagged and tagged for pickup at Morrison - instead it will have already been shipped the day before. (If you can't remember what you asked for, please contact Rene Pirolt or myself and hopefully we can get you an answer!) After 10:00 am or thereabouts, all kits that were not picked up will be transferred to Green Mountain Sports, where you can pickup anytime they are open.

  The Team Store orders have not been produced yet, and are supposed to be shipped in mid-April. I'll let the team know as soon as they arrive. These will be available for pickup at Green Mountain Sports as well. For all team clothing questions, please contact Cory Kramer.

 If you have any questions regarding clothing, please contact Cory Kramer.

• Mid Week Interval Training Ride - Wednesday training rides - We now have 2 rides to choose from. Daylight savings time has begun so the time trial training ride will now start at 5pm instead of 3:30. We meet at 5pm 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.

• Mid Week Hill Climb Training Rides - For those interested in hill climb training, we now offer a 5pm Wednesday afternoon ride at lookout mountain. This will be an informal spring start to the HC rides. We will be on the hill, so if you can not come until later, you will find us. These rides will be weather permitting and started Wednesday 3/12. If you have questions feel free to contact Brian France cbfrance1@yahoo.com. Check the TER website for last minute updates on any training rides.

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

• Cherry Creek Time Trial Packet Pickup - at Green Mountain Sports (w/ Aerodynamic Seminar).
  Cherry Creek TT racers, you can pick up your rack packet at GMS on April 3 5-7pm.  Additionally, Robbie Ketchell from Colorado Premier Training Wind Tunnel will be giving a aerodynamics seminar from 6:00-6:30p.
  Robby is a Senior coach, biomechanist, and aerodynamics performance analyst with CPT, and manages the Biomechanics and Aerodynamics lab at the CPT Wind Tunnel in Fort Collins, CO USA.
  Years of racing, training, and traveling with some of the world's most successful cyclists gives Robby the experience and character to lead motivated athletes to athletic achievement. Just some of the athletes Robby has worked with include Dave Zabriskie, David Millar, Tom Danielson, Chris Baldwin, Christian VandeVelde, Magnus Backstedt, Nathan O'Neill, Marisa Asplund-Owens, Dotsie Bausch, Katie Mactier, Tom Peterson and Maartjin Maaskant.  More information
   

• Ironhorse Race - get ready now! - TER is organizing team participation in the Ironhorse Classic Race. The HC race is Saturday, May 24, and this year there is also a crit on Sunday and a TT on Monday. But you need to sign up soon, as some categories are already filling up.

  Randie Polidori is organizing housing and carpooling, as well as a shared meal on Saturday night, so please also email Randie if you are interested in sharing a condo with team members, or having her help reserve a hotel room. Rooms in Durango also go fast for the weekend of the race. Additionally, Randie is also willing to help us organize carpooling to and from the event. Please contact Randie  if you would like her to find you a room or help arrange carpooling.

  TER participation in Team TT races.

  There are two races coming up that offer a Team TT event. This involves 4 team members riding together in a paceline, where at least 2 riders need to cross the finish line in order to qualify for a place.

  The two races are the Haystack TT on April 12, and the Rabbit Mt TT on Sunday May, 4.

  Please contact Michael Raber ASAP if you are interested in participating in either of these events as we need to register as a team.

Organized Training Rides and Target Road Races, 2008

• 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.

• New Sponsor - Velocomp, makers of the iBike Power MetersVelocomp, makers of the iBike Power Meter, has agreed to sponsor Team Evergreen Racing. Pricing is as follows:

  iBike Pro Wireless with Heart Rate: Retail (w/tax): $751 TER (w/tax): $550

  For more information

  To take advantage of this offer, do the following:

   1. Email Rolo (rluarca@gmail.com) with the products you wish to purchase

   2. Mail a check for the total amount (note prices already include tax) to:
       Team Evergreen Racing
       13357 W Alameda Pkwy
       Lakewood, CO 80228

   3. Deadline is Thursday, March 20th at 5:00pm

   4. Expected delivery is April 4th. Products when ready, will be at Green
       Mountain Sports for pickup.

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

   

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