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The BAR/BAT standings have been updated to reflect results through the Cat's Hill Criterium.
Check out the BAR women, BAR men and BAT (overall and by category) standings today!
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Mentoring programs for Women's Category 4 and Men's Category 5 races have been announced.
Mentors will focus on safe riding, pack skills, racing techniques, gear usage, bike fit, etc. in order to support
novice racers. Mentors will wear orange safety vests and clothing provided by our program sponsor,
Voler Team Apparel. All mentors are either current or former Category 1/2/3 racers. Mentors will not impact the outcome of a race and will be available afterward to
answer questions, discuss race techniques and offer suggestions for improvement.
Laurie Fenech is coordinating the women's program, and Alan Atha is coordinating the men's.
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The Infineon Tuesday twilights have been cancelled for the season. Currently, there are no plans for a Fall series.
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Bay Area Women's Cycling (BAWC) announces its seventh annual "Northern
California Women's Racing Series" sponsored by the Northern California
Nevada Cycling Association.
This year's Racing Series will include the following races:
- March 8 (Tri-Flow Menlo Park Grand Prix, Menlo Park)
- Apr 26 (Wente Vineyards Road Race, Livermore)
- May 17 (Kern County Stage Race, Bakersfield)
- May 31 (ICCC Dash for Cash, Pleasanton)
- Aug 3 (Timpani Criterium, Santa Clara)
- Aug 9 (Carrera de San Rafael, San Rafael)
- Sept 1 (Giro di San Francisco, San Francisco)
The Racing Series is a points series for female road bicycle racers in
categories 4 and 3 (beginner and intermediate). Women do not need to register to participate. Anyone who competes in any of
the races in the series automatically accumulates points for both the
individual and team competitions.
Full details available at the BAWC FAQ and in today's press release.
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NorCal Velo Women's Cycling Team is offering a series of free on-the-bike skills clinics every Thursday evening for 5 weeks, May 1st - May 29th in Santa Rosa. Clinic topics will include: pacelines & eschelons, team time-trialing, cornering & counter-steering, criterium skills, sprinting, and much more! These clinics are open to women of all levels of experience.
Please contact Claire at norcalvelo {at} gmail.com for more information.
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This Tuesday Twilight race at Infineon Raceway is on BUT the track had some issues with getting timing equipment together. Because of this we are opening up the event for FREE this week. There will be no USCF points but ZteaM will run the event and score at least the top ten positions just for fun. ZteaM will make even make it instructive for any newer rider who wants to get their feet wet at racing.
Please understand that the track does not charge their normal fee (as they do for motor events) for use of the track, so please be patient until we work out the bugs with timing/scoring.
Again, it is free, so come on out.
Track opens Tuesday at 5 PM.
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Team Roaring Mouse Cycles and Third Pillar Racing Team are holding a joint memorial ride this Saturday March 15th, to honor the lives of Kristy Gough and Matt Peterson, our two teammates killed on Steven's Creek Canyon last Sunday while on a training ride. We welcome friends, family, fellow cyclists and all those whose lives have been touched by Matt and Kristy. Our ride will include a visit to the site of the crash site for those to share their memories.
When: Saturday, March 15th
Where: Leaving from Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 [Google map]
Time: Meet at 2:30pm, ride by 3pm
Length: 30-45 minutes to the crash site. Base pace (ie, mellow). No drop.
Route [Google route map]:
- Start @ Foothill College (Parking Lot #1, near the football stadium)
- Left on El Monte
- Right on Foothill Expressway
- Continue on Steven's Creek Canyon
- Return
**We kindly request you do NOT drive out to the crash site during this time, as we need to keep cars to a minimum in the area, given the road conditions.
**Press are welcome to attend, however we request respect during our ride. It would mean the most to us if press were to accompany us on their bikes, as we are all cyclists this week.
Also, please share your memories of Kristy and Matt at their memorial Web sites.
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USAC has just announced new upgrade guidelines. Now fields with as few
as 5 riders can get some upgrade points and larger fields of 50+ get
additional points and places for road races. Riders may want to review
these new upgrade guidelines since riders who have high placings in
smaller road races wil probably have a lot of additional upgrade
points. This especially applies to older masters.
Other changes include:
- Cat 3 riders who earn 40 upgrade points in a 12 month period earn an
automatic upgrade
- Cat 2 riders who earn 50 upgrade points in a 12 month period earn an
automatic upgrade.
- In a stage race a Cat 3 rider can only earn a maximum of 15 points
towrards an upgrade. Cat 2 riders can only earn a maximum of 20 points
towards an upgrade.
- If a road race is to short to qualify for road race upgrade points but
it is longer than the Crit minimum distance then the road race earns
points under the criterium point schedule.
- There is no rounding up of field sizes. If a race her 49 riders in the
starting field then the winner only gets the points listed in the
rules for a race with 21 to 50 riders in it.
All upgrade requests revieved form this date forward will be judged
using the new upgrade guidelines.
Want help calculating your points? Christian Kearney has put together this handy USAC upgrade points tracking spreadsheet.
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Meet the Teams day will be held Sunday, January 27 at the Early Bird
Criteriums in Fremont. This is a great recruitment opportunity for
teams, as new and potentially unattached racers will be surveying the
selection of teams.
Each team can get a 10x10 space on a first come, first served basis.
Bring your awnings and goodies for hungry racers, and clean up your
own mess. Sign-up with Robert Leibold (209.533.4996) by Monday, January 14.
Each team is responsible for cleaning up their area. In addition to
taking down the awning, teams MUST dispose of their trash, etc. Please
be attentive, and help ensure that we can return to Fremont for the EB
series next year.
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