Wednesday, December 2

When in doubt...ride!

FIVE NEW Sponsors! A new cycling class! A new computrainer

A physio room!

A NEW RACE!


Hello All!

December is here. Time is absolutely freakout and stress about school so hard that your hair falls out! When stressing out, remember to take a study break and think about cycling, well at least that's what i think about, maybe you do to! I hope so.

There is lots of exciting news. First off I would like to announce four new sponsors.

1) Becky Wilson Designs (Becky Wilson) Trailer Design

2) Interior Design (John Sasser) Trailer Vinyl

3) Training Peaks Sponsorship: (Jeremy Duerksen) Coaching Account + Unlimited Rider Accounts

4) Stephenson Cellars - (Dave Stephenson) Multi Year Sponsorship

Wine tasting and live band every Sat. night @ 7.30-10pm....No cover, great band, excellent wine = super awesome time!

5) Welty Health Center - Physical Therapy Room (Claudia Ness)

6) Cycling Class new for Spring '10

7) New Bottle order

8) Clothing Order - tell your parents to buy our gear!

9) NEW RACE ADDED TO COLLEGIATE SPRING CALENDER

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Through our fabulous team physio Dave Tupper, Duncan and I meet with marketing director Jeremy Duerksen of training peaks over thanksgiving break - and now we have a wicked set up with the best online training log.

We will use the training peaks to suggest basic training plans to everyone on the team, or more specialized training if you are interest. It is very easy and we are very excited about this. We will start this at christmas time.

**This is help you track your training as well as help the team leaders at training camp in march decide if the longer or shorter ride of the day is best for your training**
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Dave Stephenson is dedicated to collegiate and junior cycling community in Walla Walla. We will be working with Dave through 2011 and look forward to a great future. See more about our new sponsor here:
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With the help of Claudia Ness, director of the Welty Health Center, we all have 24hr access to BRAND NEW ultrasound machine, ice bath and Dave Tupper's computrainer (accompanied by a desktop computer generously provided by the Health Centre. This is going to be a very valuable tool.
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The new for 2010 cycling class will be run by Malcolm Dunn and myself. It will go over many things. It will be chill but legit. There will by 12-15 spots. Prereqs....a road bike and enthusiasm! We will have two class events per week. One will make use of the class' scheduled time for lecture and guest speaker. The other meeting time will be used for occasional class rides but also gives you the freedom to complete your workouts on your own time.

We will use Dave Tupper's computrainer to do power tests at the beginning of the class, as well as later throughout the year! This will show your improvements!

We will talk about: Recovery, Difference between training and exercise, improving efficiency (bike+rider=one unit), zones, periodized training, race strategy, pack riding skills, bike mechanic skills. I think this is so cool! I hope you do to! We can use training peaks for this too!

Contact Malcom Dunn (
dunnm@whitman.edu)
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New Bottle Design: Should be a good vintage. Will feature a new color scheme for 2010!

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Clothing order - those who are abroad or haven't paid team dues - email Molly Blust (blustme@whitman.edu) and tell her if you plan on racing full time (due paying) and receive discounts on clothing order.
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There is a new race added to the calender - march 13-14th in Boise, Idaho. So know there are six collegiate races we are attending.

What does this mean? If you have a hella hard semester coming up and can't go to three races but want the team sponsorship - well you can come to the first three races of the year that are all during spring break!

We will be coming back to Walla Walla the following week for a training camp, then traveling to Eugene for the 2nd race weekend in Eugene (another training camp in Eugene) then up to Bellingham before coming back to school.
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Finish off the semester strong and on December 11th we will have a small team meeting

Ben

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