For the past 37 years the Early Birds by Velo Promo and the NCNCA have provided a training playground for our bicycle racing community to acknowledge and embrace our “training season”. Experienced mentors give back to the cycling community by teaching years of pack racing skills, to all skill levels and ages. Velo Promo provides a venue where you can practice your arrival to start time, including warmup and course preview, as well as practicing your race craft whether you decide to sprint or sit up at the finish, as well as your routine when you finish. We consider the racers experience to be the most important part of the day that we have mentors leading pre-race clinics, observe during the race and lead a post-race debriefing. We are trying to provide a learning environment and have found that stripping away the placings, and prizes accelerates your learning.
Every major professional sport has their “training” periods. Time carved out where new and old teammates gather to start their season, bond and work on the fundamentals of their sport. We hope you agree that cycling requires a healthy mixture of physical strength, skills and cognitive aptitude. Licensed bicycle racing turns all three of these components up to “11”, underscoring the importance of the period to acquire cycling strength, skills and smarts.
We are looking forward to the five-week 2024 Early Birds Training Series in Livermore, California and are excited to announced that neutral on-site Bike Mechanic Support at all five Early Bird sessions will provided by Trek Bicycles.
If you are new to racing, please read our previous post on how to get a USA Cycling Race License and all about racing age, racing categories and teams.
We would love if any Northern California bicycle stores, coffee shops, cycling, youth or outdoor organizations post at their establishments or share our downloadable PDF flyer on their social media accounts!