KMS Cycling Team: 2011-11-20

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.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Plan for the week

Great weekend of racing for the KMS team. At Saturday's race at the velodrome in Londonderry, NH, we had Brendan Rhim winning the Juniors with Ansel Dickey in third after a mid-race pile-up. Peter Vollers, Jr. and Alden Suokko were also in the top-10. Coach podiumed with 3rd in the M45 and Erin Donohue had her best result to date in the Pro women just missing the podium in 4th place.

On Sunday's race in Lowell, MA, Peter, Jr. set up Brendan nicely in the Jr. race by attacking after the 1st lap followed by a counter by Brendan sending him into the lead never to be seen again and finishing minutes ahead for a remarkable victory in his 4th cross race ever! Ansel Dickey raced up in the Pros and suffered a bike change, but finished strong. Erin was 13th in a huge Pro women field and a rather tired coach was 5th in the M45.

With the deep workouts at the races this past weekend and with this being a holiday week, we're going to do just one team ride on Tuesday as it's looking like snow on Wed. Here's the plan:

Monday: rest day, individual core workouts

Tues: medium-paced 2 hour ride with hills at threshold. 2 pm

Wed-Thurs: rest days, travel, enjoy, relax, watch football and old movies, sit around, eat tons and don't even think about bike racing for two whole days!

Friday: TSR at 8 am from the SH. KMS team do 45 min to 1 hour indiv. ride with a few openers.

Sat-Sun: Verge Series cross races, Sterling, MA.

Thanks and have a great T-giving everyone!