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Valley Bicycle Club’s Training Ride Series 2009
1.
FEES & NUMBERS:
The training ride series fee for the upcoming season will be
$15, to cover this year's insurance costs. All riders
MUST be members of GVBC ($10). If you only want to attend a
couple of rides, they can be done for $5 each, with the first
ride being free if you want to come out to try out the series.
When you
pay your Training Ride Series fee, you will receive a number
for your bike. The A group will have white
numbers
this year, and the B and Women’s group will have white numbers
with a red stripe across the bottom.
Please
turn in last year’s numbers at the Spring party, SWAP, or the
first race.
2. REQUIREMENTS.
All participants must be members in
good standing of GVBC on the day of the race. All participants
must sign a waiver form at EACH ride (these can
be printed out on the GVBC website, and will also be available
at each ride). Out-of-town guests may participate, but they
must be members of USA Cycling or join GVBC.
3. VENUES/TIMES: The ride
series will rotate between a 20 kilometer timed individual
ride, a 19 mile circuit ride over a 2 mile loop or a crit over
a 1 mile loop, and a ~20 mile road ride. See schedule below
for dates for each ride. Each will start at 6:30 p.m. (please
arrive at least 15 minutes early to sign up for each ride).
a) Individual Time Trials
will be held on Springhill Road, starting and finishing at
East Baseline Road (please park on the first street on the
left after turning onto East Baseline from Springhill Rd),
with the turnaround at the “Pavement Ends” sign right before
Reese Creek. The Dry Creek Team Time Trial will begin at the
softball fields on Dry Creek Rd in Belgrade (take a right onto
N Broadway from Main Street heading west, park at the softball
fields on the left after crossing Cameron Ave) and turn around
at 20k. Both Team Time Trials can be ridden solo as well.
Details of the Hill Climb Time Trials are still being worked
out and will come soon. Time Trial times will be posted on the
GVBC website following each Time Trial Ride, or as soon as Amy
gets around to it!
Hand cyclists and juniors will
have the option of riding a 10k time trial on the Springhill
and Dry Creek course. Please let Amy know if you plan to ride
the 10k so we can have a volunteer for the turn around point.
b) The Circuit Ride will
begin in the Green Hills Subdivision off South Cottonwood
Road. New this year there will be a preem lap on
lap 5. Additional series points will be awarded to the winner
of the preem for each group (A, B, Women’s), and super cool
prizes will be awarded to the winners as well!
The crit will take place
either at the Black Bull Golf Community (take Durston heading
west, and enter Black Bull Community after crossing Love Lane.
Take a left across from Ballindalloch Lane (I’m not sure if
the street you will take a left onto is signed. There are
several culdesacs in here for parking), or at the Meadow Creek
subdivision (take a right onto Graf Street off of 19th
heading south, continue to Enterprise St, and you will be on
the NE corner of the course).
c) Road Rides will
alternate between the Bridger Canyon Road Ride (starting at
the six-mile marker with the turn-around at Bohart Ranch –
total of 22 miles), and the Jackson Creek Road Ride (starting
at the six-mile marker on Bridger Canyon Road, turning right
onto Jackson Creek Road, 2 times around the loop across from
the little schoolhouse, and finish at the top of the hill on
Jackson Creek – exact distance…..not sure!).
d) The venue for the Match
Sprints is still being decided upon. Details for this ride
and the BBQ to follow coming soon.
e) The Working Man’s Training
Stage Race will consist of a different ride each night of
the week from Monday through Thursday. Separate points will be
kept for the Training Stage Race (each person’s top 3 finishes
will count towards the Stage Points), and volunteers will be
organized separately as well (see below). A potluck will
follow Thursday’s Training Stage. More details will be coming
soon!
e) CANCELLATIONS will be emailed
to the Training Ride Email List (please provide your email
address when signing up for GVBC or when signing the waiver at
the training ride series so you can be contacted for
cancellations and other changes, details, etc).
4.
SAFETY:
In addition to requiring helmets and no
parking on the race venues:
a) PLEASE STAY OFF THE ROAD AT
THE BRIDGER CANYON STAGING AREA!!!! Riders must stay off
the road at all start/finish areas and not impede traffic.
Riders who don’t stay off the roads in these areas will not be
allowed to participate in the ride.
b) PLEASE DO NOT CROSS THE
YELLOW LINE!!!! Especially on the 2 corners of the South
Cottonwood Rd stretch of the Green Hills Circuit Ride, it is
very dangerous to cross the yellow line. Please be aware that
cars have, in the past, tried to pass riders on the right side
when the pack crosses the yellow line to take a wide right
turn off of Cottonwood Road in the circuit ride. You MUST stay
on the right side of the road for this turn. It is very hard
for the corner volunteer to stop a car when they think they
can zip by on the right side. Riders who cross the yellow
line (unless avoiding an accident) will be kicked out of the
ride!!!
5.
VOLUNTEERS: We will only conduct rides if there are
adequate volunteers to help with event safety and
organization. Please volunteer for at least two rides during
the season (volunteers for the Working Man’s Training Stage
Race will be organized separately). Please sign up through Amy
Chiuchiolo
(achiuchiolo@montana.edu) using the online
Volunteer Sign-up schedule. Riders who do not help with
rides will be reminded with an email to the
Training Ride Email List.
Avoid this shame and humiliation by
volunteering!!! Additional volunteers for sweeping the
circuit course are appreciated. In the event that we do not
have the minimum number of volunteers required, for safety’s
sake, the ride will be cancelled.
Thank you to
Chris Lapp for again volunteering the transport the “Bikes on
Road” signs to each race!
Ride director for 2009: Amy
Chiuchiolo -
achiuchiolo@montana.edu,
978.857.8924
2009
Schedule
pdf version
Volunteer sign-up
page
Waiver
Training Ride Time Trial Results 2009
April 21, 2009
June 2, 2009 40K TTT
June 23, 2009
July 21, 2009 Hyalite Hill Climb TT
August 11, 2009 Springhill TTT
Sept 2, 2009 Springhill TT
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