KMS Cycling Team: 2011-11-06

KMS Cycling Team Program Detailed Overview

The KMS Cycling Team is a comprehensive junior cycling development program. The team is coached by 1985 US Junior Worlds Team Member, 1989 US Collegiate National Champion, past pro racer and 30- year racing veteran, Peter Vollers, and Development Team Coach, Brad Ramsay. All team equipment and technical assistance is provided by the The Start House Ski and Bike Shop in Woodstock, Vermont.

The program starts with children of young ages with weekly bike rides (on any bike) from the Start House. These rides are organized by our elite and development team members so we have immediate integration of all levels of the team. During the summer months on Tuesday evenings, some of our cubs/kids team members have their first racing experience on the mini infield track at Twin-State Speedway in Claremont, NH and our cubs are encouraged to take part in the many cub-level cyclocross races taking place all over New England in the fall and winter.

From our cubs/kids team, the riders progress to the KMS Development Team. Many team members will also join our program at this level. KMS Development Team members focus their racing on New England prep school league racing as well Eastern Conference Collegiate Racing in the spring (KMS worked with USA Cycling and eastern conference promoters and officials to arrange for any high school student in the country to register a team and race in the well-developed collegiate conference races) and northeast region USAC races, including the entire fall/winter cyclocross season.

From our development team, some of our top juniors graduate to the KMS/Start House Cycling Team (KMS elite team). These riders are heavily supported with racing bikes for both road and cyclocross from Trek and Bontrager from the Start House, free kits and help with entry fees and travel expenses so they can attend international races like the International Junior Tour of Ireland , the Tour de Rimouski, the US Junior National Championships and other top level races. The team also takes part in the full New England cyclocross season.

Many of the riders on both the KMS development team and the elite team attend our sponsoring school, Killington Mountain School, which now offers a full-time cycling program where students in grades 8 thru 12 can attend the school while taking part in the KMS Cycling Team program. Just like with KMS' skiing and snowboarding programs, the cycling student-athlete's curriculum is arranged around their training and racing program to allow for maximum flexibility. The KMS school program is a great way for kids who are not from the Woodstock area to take part in our program and train and race with the team on a full-time basis.

If you're interested in the KMS Cycling Team program, please contact Head Coach, Peter Vollers, at pvollers@killingtonmountainschool.org or call him at 802-291-2419 or KMS Development Team Coach, Brad Ramsay, at bramsay@killingtonmountainschool.org.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Plan for the weekend

For Saturday's race in Windsor, oddly, my race is first at 9:30 am, so the van will be leaving the SH at 7:30 am, but Ansel, Peter and Alden will most likely sleep in and come down later as their race isn't until 12:30 pm. Fine for B and Erin to come later as well.

For Sunday's race in Putney, van will be leaving the SH at 7:15 am. Ansel is racing the pro race, which is the last race of the day, so we'll aim to get home at about 5 pm.

Thanks!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Tues and Wed plans

For both Tues and Wed, we need to be riding/racing at 3:30, which means we'll need to leave Woodstock by 2:30 pm on Tues and by 2 pm on Wed.

Also, for anyone doing the final prep school mt. bike race at Highland Park on Wed, Brad Ramsay will be driving, so please contact him directly at: ramsay.family@comcast.net.

Thanks!

plan for the week

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Great weekend of racing. Very proud to announce that our own Erin Donohue is the 2011 New England High School Mountain Biking Girls Champion! Not bad that our little old team sports the best high school girl mountain biker in all of New England. Way to go, Erin! Check out the pics at: www.kmscyclingteam.com.

Also, congrats to our cyclo-crossers at the Cycle-Smart International Verge Series race over the weekend. While everyone had some solid results, I have to say that our best result of the entire weekend for cross was Jack Watson's 2nd place finish in the 8-9 year old kids race on Sat. Great job Jack!

For this week: (we'll be doing a fairly easy week as most of you got a deep workout at the various races this past weekend and last week was a harder week)

Monday: Rest day, no training. KMS kids to attend Annual KMS Bowling Tourney.

Tuesday: Windsor cross training race: We'll recon the finalized course for this Sat's race.

Wed: Putney cross training race: We'll recon the course for this Sun's Vermont State Championships race.

Thursday: rest day, no training

Friday: rest day, easy 1/2 hour to 45 minutes on the trainers. Peter and Ansel to ride at KMS on spin bikes.

Saturday: Paradise Cross Frenzy cross race in Windsor, VT. This is our "hometown" cross race folks and, yes, they have a kids' race too! This is great, small-time, grass-roots racing at it's best. Even if you've never done a cross race, this is the one to get your feet wet.

Sunday: VT State Cross Championships at West Hill Shop in Putney. All our cub juniors should try to do this race as, well, it's States (meaning it's far, far more important than Nov. dryland training for skiing or a hockey game!). :)

Thanks!