BEGINNING NEXT TUESDAY, APRIL 10, the general weekly training plan for the remainder of the school year, subject to tweaking for particular races, will be:
Monday: Easy kids/family ride from the Start House at 3:45. Woodstock kids are welcome to ride their bikes from school and parents can pick them up after the ride at 5 pm. Our core junior riders will be doing this ride as well for their rest day so they'll be on hand to help give the children some pointers. We'll always be on dirt roads for this ride (all cub juniors and kids should have cross bikes with two sets of wheels and tires, one for dirt and cross racing and one for road)
Tuesday: Sprint ride on Stage Road in Pomfret. Leave the SH by 4 pm (thru end of April; once May rolls around, we'll be racing at Claremont speedway on Tues nights). All Juniors and cubs are welcome on this ride (cubs switch to your road wheels and tires).
KMS ALPINE AND SNOWSPORT KIDS, please note: Asst Cycling Coach Hadley and Head Alpine Mens Coach, Jack Bailey, will be leading a separate road ride from the KMS campus after school on Tuesdays at 3:30. This ride will be specifically designed for our KMS alpine athletes who are riding to supplement their off-season ski and snowboard training. Please see Greg or Jack for details on that ride.
Wednesday: Road ride from the SH at 3:45, (leaving at 4 pm). All junior riders on the team can join this ride. It'll be about a 2 hr ride with some harder efforts and regrouping at the top of the hills. If we have enough riders and coaches, we'll try to break this ride up into two groups, one faster and one more moderate. We'll be getting back to doing some dirt road riding as well, so keep an eye on the training and racing calendar at www.kmscyclingteam.com for that week's particular ride. While road bikes are fine on dirt road rides, cross bikes and cross tires are preferable.
Thursday: kids/family ride from the SH at 3:45, leave by 4. Whole team is welcome. Dirt roads and cross bikes. Back by 5. Kids can ride here from school.
Friday: individual day. Usually opener ride for racing team and travel day. TSR for adults in the am.
Weekends: see racing schedule on team website.
Cubs, please don't forget to buy your racing licenses from USAC and let me know if you'd like to focus on some racing. Some good ones to start with would be the prep school races starting at the end of April.
Thanks and please let me know if anyone has any questions.
Coaches Vollers and Hadley
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
April 2 weekly update
Wow, what a weekend! We had great Battenkill preview ride on Saturday on their beautiful course. Lots of flats, which was actually good because it gave me some really helpful feedback on what wheels and tires to run for the race.
On Sunday, we did the first official race of the New England road season and a true NE spring classic, the Michael Schott Memorial Race on Marblehead Neck in MA. In the Cat 4-5 mens race, Peter Jr. came 4th (3rd in the field sprint with one rider away) and Alden was 25th (out of about 100 starters) and then, in the Pro 1-3 race, Ansel jousted with the Frank, Mark, Shawn McCormack juggernaut (Frank and Mark are widely touted as the very best bike racers NE has ever produced, EVER) and came up with the goods with a colossal 3rd place and that was in a wildly fast field sprint on junior gears. This result marks the first time any KMS rider has placed in a true pro race, much less podiumed, much less at Marblehead. Just a massive breakthrough for Ansel and for our program in general.
As some of you may have noticed, Coach is taking a little reprieve from racing these days as the team has developed to the point where all of my energy and attention really needs to be focused on coaching. One of the many benefits of that is that I'm now able to film a lot of the racing. To check out the pics from all of our race weekends, simply go to the team website at www.kmscyclingteam.com and click on the picture of Ansel sprinting at Marblehead and that will bring you to our Facebook photo album page (the kids love FB as they can tag each other on all the shots).
This weekend we're off to Yale for their excellent collegiate race weekend in New Haven. I'll send particular weekend plans to the team beforehand.
Thanks!
On Sunday, we did the first official race of the New England road season and a true NE spring classic, the Michael Schott Memorial Race on Marblehead Neck in MA. In the Cat 4-5 mens race, Peter Jr. came 4th (3rd in the field sprint with one rider away) and Alden was 25th (out of about 100 starters) and then, in the Pro 1-3 race, Ansel jousted with the Frank, Mark, Shawn McCormack juggernaut (Frank and Mark are widely touted as the very best bike racers NE has ever produced, EVER) and came up with the goods with a colossal 3rd place and that was in a wildly fast field sprint on junior gears. This result marks the first time any KMS rider has placed in a true pro race, much less podiumed, much less at Marblehead. Just a massive breakthrough for Ansel and for our program in general.
As some of you may have noticed, Coach is taking a little reprieve from racing these days as the team has developed to the point where all of my energy and attention really needs to be focused on coaching. One of the many benefits of that is that I'm now able to film a lot of the racing. To check out the pics from all of our race weekends, simply go to the team website at www.kmscyclingteam.com and click on the picture of Ansel sprinting at Marblehead and that will bring you to our Facebook photo album page (the kids love FB as they can tag each other on all the shots).
This weekend we're off to Yale for their excellent collegiate race weekend in New Haven. I'll send particular weekend plans to the team beforehand.
Thanks!
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