May 3: Bike Fit Open House & Registration Day: volunteers needed
Call to Develop SCC Training Program
New to Cycling: Monday Night Rec Rides are for you
SCC Training Rides in Crapaud & Rocky Point
|
SCC Upcoming
Events | |
|
Apr 12 |
Sprockids 3-Hr Education Session |
|
May 3 |
Bike Fit Open House & Registration Day |
|
May 5 |
Monday Rec Rides |
|
May 7 |
Group Ride |
| May 10 | Mother's Day TT (Friends of SCC) |
| May 12 | Monday Rec Ride |
|
Learn more about all
of SCCs events,
please visit our Calendar.
| |
|
Major SCC
Endurance Events (150 km
+) | |
|
May 24 |
SEA PEI Bicycle Tour: West Point (171 km) |
|
Jun 21 |
SEA PEI Bicycle Tour: Summerside (172 km) |
|
Jul 5 |
SEA PEI Bicycle Tour: Victoria by the Sea (203 km) |
| Jul 19 | SEA PEI Bicycle Tour: Mt. Stewart (209 km) |
| Jul 20 | SEAPEI Bicycle Tour: Brundenell (201 km) |
| Aug 2 | BIKING FOR BREAKFAST CHALLENGE (278 km) |
| Aug 16 | Jeff's Endurance Ride (160 km) |
|
. | |
October
Dear Cyclist,
With so much happening for the Summerside Cycling Club, I wanted to start a Newsletter to highlight the activities and to bring people up to speed.
This Newsletter has been something I wanted to do since the inception of the Club; however, I never really had the time. Not that time is all that plentiful today -- but as the Club has our chains in so many different sprockets right now (parden the puns), I thought it important to find the time to illustrate the club's activities to club veterans, newbies, and those who are simply interested in our happenings.
Most importantly however is that I want to give everyone an opportunity to shape our Club.
Inside the inaugural issue of our Newsletter you will find information about free training, new rides, award nominations, and an opportunity to further development any / all of our programming.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Ken Trenholm
President
Summerside Cycling
Club
Become a Youth Cycling Leader or
Assistant
3-Hour Training on April 12 @ Community
Connections (Summerside)
There is no better way to shape our future but to create it!
Being involved in the internationally acclaimed Sprockids youth cycling program holds a special place in my heart. I am passionate about this program. Why? It not only teaches kids how to ride a bike safely but also teaches them reasonability, courage, and independence -- it builds their self-esteem as they experience one success after another upon their completion of tasks.
The
SCC will be hosting its second Sprockids youth cycling development
program this Spring (mid-May with registration on May 3). We are
calling on everyone who has an interest in the bicycling
lifestyle to come out and learn about this incredible,
well-structured, program that is active in 17 countries.
This program offers youth aged 9 to 12 an opportunity to experience success by learning over 20 essential bicycle skills (riding, safety, and bike maintenance) with a team of adult leaders and assistants.
For me, it is the small adult-to-youth ratio that translates into results for the kids (and us adults too!). Last year we had six and sometimes seven adults working with the 16 kids in our two groups. It takes many volunteers to run the program and ensure the children are safe.
The SCC is in need of more volunteers in order to meet the needs for this program for the upcoming season.
Do I need superior bike skills to be a
Leader or Assistant?
Nope. The most
important thing is your attitude! The skills are broken down in
point form so any person with a little bicycle experience can deliver
this program. By the way, we leave our spandex at home (or hide
them under baggies during our sessions). No need to give the
poor kids nightmares!
April 12: 3-Hour
Training
I will be faciliating a
3-hour Course for those people who are interested in learning about
the program in order to assist with program delivery. This
session is FREE and is open to past
Sprockids Assistants, current Sprockids Leaders, and those who are
new to the Sprockids program. You won't be certified with this
training but it will provide you a glimpse into the make-up of the
program. For current certified Leaders, this course offers you a
Refresher. If you are interested, please let me know ASAP.
April 19: Certified Sprockids
Training
Although the training is unconfirmed as
of the date of this Newsletter, Cycling PEI is working towards
bringing Sprockids to communities across PEI. Kudos to the CPEI
Board and Executive Director for such vision. If the training does
proceed as planned, I will be conducting the full-day training on
Sprockids for people interested in becoming a Certified Sprockids
Leader. If interested in becoming Certified, you can drop
myself or Mike Connolly (Cycling PEI, mconnolly@sportpei.pe.ca)
a line.
Youth Builder
Acknowledgement
In order to ensure our Sprockids
Program continues to be sustainable and to cut down on the cost of
registration for the youth, the SCC are accepting "Youth Builder"
donations all-year round. You can donate $10 for an annually or
$1.00 recurring monthly.
100 per cent of the revenue raised does directly into running our Sprockids Program.
Thank you!
Learn more about our Sprockids Program.
Award
Nominations
Get your nominations in for the best of the 2007
season
The Summerside Cycling Club is asking for nominations for our annual awards for 2007. As the 2008 season is about to start (when the snow goes bye-bye), it is no better time to reflect on last year.
Nominations will be open for one week (April 3 to 10th) followed by one week for voting. The Awards up for Grabs are the following:
1. Yellow Jersey - Rider who overcame adversity
during the year
2. Spare Tube Award -
Rider who suffered through terrible luck / mechanical problems during the
year
3. Domestique Award - Rider who
worked behind the scenes to make 2007 awesome
4.
Volunteer of the Year
5. Rookie
of the Year
6. Endurance Event of the
Year
7. Training Course of the
Year
As you can see, we have two new Awards for 2007: the Endurance Event of the Year and the Training Course of the Year.
Place your nomination today.
Bike Fit Open House & Registration
Day
May 3, 10 am to noon @ Credit Union
Place
Have you often wondered if your bicycle fits you correctly? Do you know the five steps of proper bike fit? Did you know that the majority of back and knee problems reported by cyclists is because of improper bike fit? Com'on people, I'm not making this stuff up. At this FREE Clinic, you or your child will be walked through the Bike Fit process step-by-step. And, if you bring your helmet, we'll throw in a helmet check for free as well.
But, there is a catch. As May 3rd is also Registration Day for the SCC, you'll be asked if you wish to have a membership to the Club. Club Fees are as follows:
$20 - Upgrade Membership (if you already are a CPEI Member)
$30 - Sprockids / Youth
Membership
$40 - Recreation / Training
Membership
$50 - Citizen Membership
All of these fees include a Cycling PEI membership as well. The hope is that the majority of Membership Fees and Waiver Forms will be completed on or before this date. If you are unable to register in person, please try to register through the mail or online.
As Insurance is a big issue for clubs and organizations, you will need to have your Membership paid and the Waiver signed before you will be allowed to participate in any SCC events this year.
Two more volunteers are still required for our Open House. I will train those volunteers on how to achieve a good bike fit.
Training
Unplugged . . . I've been thinking for some time that in order
for our Training Program to provide members with the most benefit to
our health, fitness, and motivation, we need to go a step above
merely offering the structured riding opportunities. I am putting a call out to members or potential
members if people would like to sit down and develop a generic training
program on paper. I would see this program encompassing the basic
tenets of strength and speed training, cardio, nutrition,
flexibility, and core development. While we would continue with our Training Rides
as a group, we would do most of the strength and core development
independently with a few group sessions so we could share our trade
secrets. I'd also hope to run our program through a National level
cycling coach for comments as well. I don't mind spearheading the program planning but I would like to have
a couple people interested and skilled to assist with its
development. However, I certainly do not want to get down and hammer
out our training program if people do not view this as a need /
interest. I will be attending Cycling Level II Road Coaching training in
Sackville (NB) on May 17 - 19 after obtaining my Level I Road training
earlier this year (perhaps all this talk about training and coaching has
inspired myself to put some of this info to practice). So, please drop me a line on your feelings toward this
process.
Are people interested in
developing a training program to compliment our Training Ride
Series'?
Monday Night
Beginner Group Rides Some people tell us that they would love to
come out and bicycle but they have a fear of the traffic, or it is just
hard to motivate themselves. If you fit into these, or other
categories, or know someone who does, you are the majority. Recent
studies site the number one reason why people -- who want to bicycle --
decide not to, is out of fear of being hurt while cycling. The benefit to participating in this new Monday
Night Series is that many of the riders will be new to group riding, some
may not have been on the bicycle for some time. It is not about
speed: The pace will be moderate; it is not about seeing if you can drop
the group on the first climb; it is about brining people together to share
a physical activity you can do your entire lifetime. And, for those that need that little motivation
to hit the saddle, group riding provides that. You'll come to count
down the days until the next ride and wonder if your new friends will come
out as well. Thanks to the initiative of Dave Clark of
Summerside who introduced the idea and to both Dave and Kirk Steele (also
of Summerside) who will be volunteering their time to be the Ride Captains
of the Monday Night Beginner Group Rides. During these rides, Dave and Kirk will answer
your questions and will help you understand just how much fun cycling
is. Although these rides are geared for the beginners, the rides are
open to anyone who wishes to join in who share the same philosophy as
above: maintaining a moderate pace and everyone rides together. If
enough people show up to warrant two different groups, that is a
possibility also.
SCC Training
Rides expand to Crapaud & Rocky Point The most popular training rides for our Club
are the Time Trials. Unlike official TT races
where the starting sequence is based on the finishing times
in preceding races (as in stage races), our TT starting positions have
more to do with what people are comfortable with than anything else.
Some riders like to get out first, others in the middle, others do not
like to be passed so they start last. Even some riders show up
late and then ride the course and meet up with the gang at the end or
send their time to the Ride Captain. With the addition of a Crapaud 19 km
TT and a Rocky Point 18.3 km TT, that brings the
total number of training TTs to four for the Club. These two new TTs
join the Miscouche 12.4 TT (entering its fourth year in the circuit) and
the Indian River 12.1 TT (entering its third year) Riders regularly set-out to set a faster time
than they rode previously, with over 60 per cent of the riders improving
their times historically. Riders earn points for time improvement
and overall ranking. Flexible, Fun, and we are always encouraging
each other to set a new personal best. Our most popular rides for a reason -- check
out these two new courses for a good ole fashioned dose of peer
encouragement and enthusiasm.
BFBC
News Entering its fourth year, the 278 km tip to tip
bicycle fund-raiser for Island breakfast programs will be making a major
announcement in the weeks to come about a new national partnership that
will help the event move closer to achieving its goal: to have a breakfast
program in all Island schools by the year 2020. Take on
the Challenge! Youth Eco-Bicycle
Olympics SPONSORS
A new group riding
series is added to the SCC Calendar
Club's most popular training rides are taken on the
road
On the Eve of Major Sponsorship News
Announcement
Our goal is
to have 115 riders on August 2 take on the Challenge and raise over
$15,000. Riders can elect to ride the entire course or any number of
partial courses. The first 50 riders to register get a free
T-Shirt.
A new event has been
added to BFBC this year. Now, instead of the event rolling on one
day, it is a BFBC Weekend. The new youth event is a bicycle skill
and eco-learning series of fun and interactive activities that the entire
family will enjoy. 
New SEA-PEI Bicycle
Tour
BFBC Official Training Series kicks off on May 24 (new
date)
Does the idea of learning about buried treasure, ghosts who walk the Island, phantom trains, and phantom ships while covering all of PEI's scenic coastal drives by bicycle sound like the perfect Island-get-away? Of course it does. Join dozens of cyclists who experience the lore of Canada's smallest province with the strangest legends. One truly unique Island bicycle adventure!
The purpose of the SEA PEI Bicycle Tour is to provide an organized activity whereby cyclists can bicycle all of PEI scenic routes in 5 days under an experienced "Legend Leader" who will tell the stories of the Island so that Island tales will be preserved and shared. There will be two or three pace groups during the day and each pace group will consist of a Legend Leader. Instead of doing it 5 days in a row, each ride is scheduled on a Saturday and the last ride is a Saturday / Sunday camping combo. The three pace group speeds are: 20 - 24 kph, 25 - 29 kph, or 30 + kph. If two pace groups, 20-26 kph and 27 + kph are the speeds.
Here are the dates (9 a.m. start times):
May 24
West Point (171 km)
June 21
Summerside (172 km)
July 8
Victoria by the Sea (203 km)
July 19
Mt. Stewart (209 km)
July 20
Brudenell (201 km)
All of the above rides will also contain a 100 km loop for riders looking to bicycle 100 K during the day. The 100 K loop will not have a Legend Leader.
Please note the new date for the West Point SEA PEI Tour ride as the previous date was a conflict with one of our Friends of SCC events, the Red Island Relay.
Learn more about the SEA PEI Bicycle Tour.
SCC Club
Jerseys
Get more
vibrant
Don't
be caught out of the draft this year without one of our
so-rare-we-only-order-when-we-have-enough orders to make the minimum order
cycling jersey. SCC welcomes back 4-year Club veteran Rob Cook as
our Club Jersey Coordinator.
The colours this year Rob reports our distributor as commenting are even more "vibrant." Hard to imagine.
Discounted
Jerseys
Two riders have jerseys
that are a little snug on them and are willing to offer them at discounted
prices. I think the sizing on the jerseys were a little
small as my SCC jersey is much tighter than others I
own.
2 Large Jerseys (but fits like mediums) - Wes Jackshaw (willing to hand them over for half price or $40) ehs@eastlink.ca
1 Medium Jersey - Leo Flood (looking at $50) guyflood@gmail.com
So, with the smaller sizing, it seems it best to go for one size larger than you would normally wear in a jersey.
Learn more about the SCC Jerseys.
Get
revolutionized
Volunteer Today!
It is the
membership and work done by so many volunteers that continue to help
spread the word of what it means to lead the lifestyle of a
bicyclist. Take a look at our Committee
Page that lists the various roles of our
volunteers.
Here are a few of our current opportunities:
BFBC Support Drivers (Aug 2: 6
am to 9 pm)
The role of the
Support Driver during the Biking for Breakfast Challenge is extremely
rewarding and very much appreciated by the riders. The event is
happening on August 2. There is also a volunteer meeting two
days before the event that volunteers are encouraged to
attend.
Sprockids Leaders / Assistants
(90 min per week: 6 weeks)
It
is hard to image how as little as 90 minutes once a week can make you feel
so good about giving back to the lifestyle that means so much to
you. And, of course, sharing it with kids who are
like sponges, absorbing every delight you have to offer -- it does not get
any better. The program is running on six consecutive
Thursdays, 630 to 800 pm, starting May 22.
Open House Helpers (May 3: 10
am to noon)
Whether it is at
the Registration Table or helping with a Bike Fit, we can use a few more
good people to pull this off.
SEA PEI Bicycle Tour Pace Group / Legend
Leaders (Various Dates)
The
stories are wonderful and the pace is pleasant. SCC is looking for
riders who would be interested in being the Legend Leaders / Pace Group
Leaders for the for the 25 kph and under group.
Youth Builder
Acknowledgement
Please consider becoming a Youth
Builder for the SCC. In order to ensure our Sprockids Program
continues to be sustainable while minimizing youth registration
costs, the SCC is accepting "Youth Builder" donations.
You may donate $10 for annually or $1.00 recurring on a monthly basis.
100 per cent of the revenue raised does directly into running our youth cycling program.
Thank you!
If you want to subscribe to this Newsletter and have it appear in your inbox so you don't misss all this exciting stuff, just send Ken an email.
Ken Trenholm
President
Summerside Cycling Club
2
Darby Drive
Summerside, PEI
Canada C1N 4V5
Email Ken
902.888.3878
(Home)
Recreational ||
Youth
|| Endurance ||
Training ||
Calendar ||
Members