They are also ordered.  |
Good Luck at your new job and thank you for being a great Club Sports Coordinator for so long! Hope our next person is as good as you were! |
After carefully weighing input from our members we are pleased to release the OFFICIAL Spring 2010 UMBC Cycling Club Ride Schedule: please indulge in the information provided below and, more importantly, GET OUT AND RIDE! Or see our Google Calendar. |
The riding and training schedule for the spring is all up in the air. Stay tuned for more detail... most likely long before the snow even melts making riding safe and fun again. |
FYI for all interested. Anyone can now join the Google group without further action. This forum is where most of the business of the club is discussed and it is hoped opening it up will allow new members to see what we're all about. However, new members will not be given the opportunity to post until they have joined the club and attended meetings. Join Away! |
Please make all payments ASAP so that we can get these all out to you with no problems. Quick vid of me in the new kit below: |
For Release: 12:01AM Tuesday November 24th 2009
Baltimore, MD - As the fall 2009 semester winds down, UMBC Cycling has completed its tentative racing schedule for the spring 2010 semester.
The leadership of the team chose to focus on mountain bike racing in the spring due to a recent spike in interest throughout the entire team. In keeping with this focus, the main racing ticket contains a mini-series of five (5) of the region’s most popular mountain bike races.
“I think our core of 6-7 racers should begin to make a splash at these races” said Tom Mackay, VP of UMBC Cycling.
A return to the roots of UMBC Cycling, the mountain mini-series is designed to further ignite the cycling movement at the Catonsville, MD campus. The list includes the following races:
· Rockburn Reloaded, Ellicott City, MD · AFC Sugar Hill, Ellicott City, MD · The Leesburg Bakers Dozen, Leesburg, VA · The Greenbrier Challenge MD State Championships, Boonsboro, MD · The Escape from Granogue, Granogue Estates, DE
Representing UMBC will be experienced veterans of the sport and enthusiastic new riders. Daniel Atkins, reigning state champion in the sport 19-29 class, will be racing CAT 1 (formerly expert) this year. Marshall Troutner of Light Street Cycles and Ben D'Alessio from Antietam Velo Club (AVC) are also expected to have big seasons.
“I don't know a single thing about mountain bike riding,” admits Ray Klug, President of UMBC Cycling, “But we can begin to get the plan together.”
UMBC Cycling also intends to send riders to “secondary” races not on this mini-list making sure they come to a race near you.
Our road team will be providing support at all five events of the series while also preparing for their own appearances at local ACCC races (acccycling.org).
For more information including coverage of all UMBC Cycling events, visit mdcycling.com or search UMBC Cycling on Facebook.
Questions can be sent to umbc [at] mdcycling [dot] com. Update 1: Added links to event homepages. |
They are also ordered. |
Order is out, expect them in about 4 weeks.   |
UMBC Cycling had another strong cross weekend. Auggie, Dan, Andrey, and Tom all competed in this event. Auggie did well in his first cross outing, netting himself a healthy finish in the middle of the Cat 4 field and some free beer. Andrey continues his climb up the Cat 4 division with his first finish in the top 10% of the field. In Cat 3, both Tom and Dan represented UMBC with strong finishes. As always special mention goes out to our friends at Adventures for the Cure. Pat Blair got in some reps, placing well in both the Cat 3/4 and Cat 1/2/3 races. Adam Driscoll made his usuall trip to the podium, pulling down 4th in the 1/2/3 race. Full results can be found at crossresults.com. |
Congrats to our own Tom Mackay for taking 6th in his first plunge into a class A cross race. Racing alongside Tom were friends from Adventures for the Cure, Patrick Blair and Adam Driscoll. Full results can be seen at crossresults.com. Photo by steenjd on flickr.  |
 The event was....eventful. The group all started just before 7:30 and got spread out by a minute or two before the first rest stop due to rain and the challenge of advancing around thousands of casual riders. After the rest stop the fun started... a recumbent (DANGEROUS!) brakes hard around mile 30 causing a rider to go fall into the (quickly advancing) UMBC paceline taking out Mike C and Ray. Mike's injuries were superficial scrapes but Ray suffered a significant arm injury (diagnosed as a fractured radius back in b-more). Ray rode 15 miles further to the next rest stop then had to wait 4 hours for a SAG ride back to his car. Aside from this we also witnesed 3 different crashes where ambulances were called. Beyond the obvious safety concerns of the 8000+ person ride... the route was fantastic and all who finished it were exhausted from the 30 miles of headwind at the end. Finally, many thanks to the Pacella family for their hospitality in our preparations to ride. |
Thanks for all who volunteered their time, and to all those who made donations. 100% of funds collected are going to Adventures for the Cure. Next up - Seagull Century  |
So Mike P, Tom, Marshall, and Mike C, just got done their epic trip down skyline drive. Checkout the "Photos" section for a slideshow or the "Ride Maps" for a graphic and details of the first third of the ride (32 miles 3900 ft of climbing).  |
UMBC was represented by Ben D’asslieu, Ray Klug, Mike Pacella, Andrey D., and Rick Mason at this year’s Tour de Carroll metric century ride on 25/Apr. Photo is courtesy of Andrey D.
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The BBQ preceded a few fantastic rounds of bike derby in Erickson field. Cheers to all who came.
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See you there! 2pm THIS Sunday.   |
Good job to all the UMBC Club members who participated in the AFC Sugar Hill mountain bike race yesterday (5/Apr). Special congratulations for Dan Atkins, taking the top spot on the podium of the single speed division, finishing 6 minutes ahead of the nearest competitor. Full results can be found at bikereg.com Pictures have been uploaded by Marshall to flickr.com Thanks again to the guys at AFC (adventuresforthecure.com) for organizing a great event. |
The Navy Crit took place this morning. The weather was cold and humid with a brisk wind pushing from behind down the start/finish straight away. The rain from the night before had mostly cleared off the course, save for a few standing puddles at the far end of the straight away, along the water line. Race organizers had done a very good job sweeping debris from the course, especially on the unforgiving hair pin turn. For Class D UMBC was represented by Andrey and Mike C. Three riders, Andrey and 2 Pfeiffer (PU) riders, seperated from the pack early and maintained their lead to the end. One PU rider from the lead group took a spill at the technical turn at the base of the descent, he rejoined the group after taking a free lap and helped PU to edge out Andrey in the final sprint. Andrey’s second place finish marks the first points for UMBC in the ACCC 2009 standings. UPDATE: Full Results |
Marshall represents UMBC at O’Hill Meltdown (15-March-2009) taking first in the beginner men’s category! |
All money for jersey orders MUST be in by 31/October/2008 (next friday). Direct all inquiries to Raymond Klug (rayklug1 at umbc dot edu).
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Full Schedule can be seen on the right (Calendar) or at http://collegiatecycling.org/. We are in the Atlanic conference.
For the first event there is a $19 fee to register and it is limited to 50 participants in each division. For men you can register A,B,C, or D each having fewer laps (5 laps, 90 miles for A, down to 1 lap, 19 miles for D). For women there is a, A,B, or C division with 3, 2, and 1, laps respectively.
Feb 14-15 North Carolina State University
Feb 21-22 Pfeiffer University CANCELED
Feb 28-Mar 1 United States Naval Academy
Mar 7-8 College of William & Mary
Mar 14-15 University of Maryland/John Hopkins University CANCELED
Mar 21-22 West Virginia University
Mar 28-29 James Madison University/University of Virginia
Apr 4-5 Virginia Tech
Apr 11-12 (Easter) Appalachian State University
Apr 18-19 AC Conference Champs-Wake Forest University |
