University of Maryland UMD Collegiate Cycling Team Website

Hey everyone, here are the results sorry it took so long to post, I was having problems with the file.

President’s Crit Results

Hey here is the race flyer

 President’s Crit

Maryland Cycling is pleased to announce that on February 7th, we will be hosting a stage in Scott Coady’s *The Collegiate Tour Baby*! *The Collegiate Tour Baby* is not a bike race, but rather a nationwide tour for the screening of Scott’s newest film, *Tour Baby Deux!* (about his adventures following the 2005 tour), raffle, and silent auction to benefit the Davis Phinney Foundation and Collegiate Cycling. The event will take place from 6-10pm at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, MD.
More information, including ticket sales will be forthcoming and is available at the official Collegiate Tour Baby http://www.collegiatetourbaby.com/index.html website. You can also view a teaser of the film here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NLqxA3JPzw.

If you are interested in purchasing tickets, donating items for the silent auction, or sponsoring the event in another way, please contact Colin Hebert. cghebert@umd.edu

We are having a meeting on Thursday, 9/6/2007, to discuss the coming year.  Anyone interesed should attend.  It will be at 7:30 in the ERC student board room, next to the raquet ball courts.

Minneapolis, Minn. (April 5, 2007) - College sports fans and cycling enthusiasts will soon get the chance to meet the country’s top women cyclists from colleges and universities all across the United States when the Ryan Collegiate All-Star Team takes to the roads at the Nature Valley Grand Prix, June 20 - 24. This will be the first all-star team in the history of U.S. collegiate cycling.

For more information:
Nature Valley Grand Prix: Steve Gill, (612)
839-9730, steve@ghost-pr.com
USA Cycling Collegiate Program: Daniel Matheny, (719)
866-4664, dmatheny@usacycling.org

Thank you to everyone who made it out to campus for a cold and tough day of racing! 

The full results can be found by following the link below:
http://www.marylandcycling.com/results/umdcrit07.pdf

Due to high demand we are accepting a few last minute entries into the criterium, if you would like to be added please contact us through bikereg:
http://www.bikereg.com/events/ContactEvent.asp?e=4271

With the following information:
Name:
Address:
USCF License Number:
USCF Team Name:
Emergency Contact Name:
Emergency Contact Phone:
Category to race:

You will recieve a confirmation email once you have been registered.   Please bring the $25 registration fee on race day.  

Tonight at 12:01am (early Friday morning) registration will close on bikereg. 
There will be no day of USCF registrations! 
Link to bikereg: http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=4271

Race goes rain or shine!  We will do our best to keep the course completely clear.  The University has excellent snow removal services in the case of incliment weather, so fear not, most likely the race will be held.  We look forward to seeing everyone Sunday for a fun day of Racing!

Check out the flyer and become familiar with the turns on the course!  Make sure to get in a good warmup before your race! 

Link to the flyer: http://marylandcycling.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/umdcrit.pdf

Coach’s Tips for… UMD President’s Cup
by BJ Basham
USA Cycling Level II Certified Coach
Article courtesy of GamJams.net 

“.70 miles with 3 90 degree turns, a tight technical chicane and wide open finish…” That is what the flyer says and this is what you should be reading into it:

• .7 miles = Short fast course with not much place for recovery. Get in a good warm-up so you are ready to rock from the gun.

• 3 90 degree turns and a tight technical chicane = Being too far back could mean a very short race. Start at the front and stay in the front third of the field. Remember that as the race goes on, the field will be getting smaller and you need to be looking for places to move up all the time.

• Wide open finish = Everyone will want to sprint so you need to be up front to avoid the mayhem.  If you are going to try and win in the sprint, then rehearse the finish by going for prime early in the race. If you are going to try to win off the front, attack in the hardest part of the course.

• Plenty of chances to show off for your friends and family = Efforts without a competitive purpose are a waste of energy. Ok this one is not on the flyer, but it applies to every race. There is no competitive reason so sit on the front and grind away pulling the field lap after lap. Wouldn’t everyone you know be more impressed with a good result compared to the fact that you led 3 laps in the beginning of the race before being spit out the back?

Have fun. Bike racing is fun.

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BJ Basham is a USA Cycling Level II Certified Coach with Peaks Coaching Group. He lives in Faifax, VA and competes in most of the same races you do. To learn more about his coaching practice and philosophy, just email him.

GamJams.net is an up-to-date local news blog for racing in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area

Largest collegiate road race set for Philadelphia 

Philadelphia will play host what is anticipated to be the largest collegiate race in history this weekend from March 10-11. While collegiate teams normally focus on competition within their conference during the season, this Pennsylvania-based event will serve simultaneously as the second stop on both the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (ECCC) and the Atlantic Collegiate Cycling Conference (ACCC) road calendars.

It will feature teams from Delaware, New England, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia, North Carolina, and West Virginia. Building on the success of the 2006 event, promoters are expecting nearly 600 student racers, which would make the race larger than both the Boston Beanpot or Nationals.

University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, Villanova, Temple University and Johns Hopkins have teamed up to host the three-event cycling weekend. “What the Philly and Johns Hopkins coalition has done is remarkable. Never before has such an important expanse of downtown metropolis been completely closed to host a collegiate cycling event,” said ECCC Conference Director Mark Abramson.

The weekend of racing kicks off Saturday morning with the Schuylkill Challenge Circuit Race along the banks of the mighty Schuylkill River. “This course is going to be epic, as the course features a number of climbs that will test the early-season legs of both conferences,” stated race director Joe Kopena of Drexel. “Plus, this course is in downtown Philly and is completely closed to traffic. Outside of the USPro championships, this simply has never been done.”

Sunday morning, a 14km Trophy Bikes team time trial will take racers on a flat course along the banks of the Schuylkill and feature views of downtown Philadelphia. Squads of up to four riders per team. “The team time trial event is one of the best parts about Collegiate Cycling. Team-building tests such as this are usually reserved for epic stage races such as the Tour de France,” said race promoter Jim Devlin of UPenn.

The weekend of racing will wrap up with the “Philly Phlyer” crit in the heart of the University of Pennsylvania campus. A new course for 2007, the one-kilo meter course will test of handling and sprinting prowess of the master tacticians of collegiate cycling. “On-campus events such as this bring our sport to the heart of the school so everyone can see how much excitement and fun there is to be had with collegiate cycling,” explained Clifton Smoot of Johns Hopkins University.