Sky across Canada

Sunday, June 22 - Everyone is invited for a group ride from Canmore to Calgary to benefit The Children's Wish Foundation.

This summer, Sky Mitchell will be riding her bicycle from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John’s, Newfoundland to raise awareness and money for the Children’s Wish Foundation. The Children’s Wish Foundation works with the community to provide children living with high-risk, life threatening illnesses the opportunity to realize their most heartfelt wish. The two and a half month ride will begin on June 1st 2008 from Victoria. Sky will be accompanied by a support vehicle driven by Tory Farr.

More info can be viewed here:
http://crosscanadasky.wordpress.com/

Here's a great way for cyclists to get involved in this leg of Sky’s ride. There will be a group ride leaving Canmore (location TBD) on Sunday, June 22, at 9:00am. Cyclists of all abilities are encouraged to join Sky as she cycles into Calgary. Everyone will cycle to the Talisman Centre for a tasty BBQ with great music and a silent auction in support of the Children’s Wish Foundation.

Tony Smith has room for 5 passengers (and bikes) and will be leaving the Talisman Centre at 7a.m. on the 22nd for Canmore. Each rider will be asked to make a minimum $50 donation on behalf of Sky for the foundation. Email tony@trainingandracing.com if you're interested.

Splash, Pedal, and Gasp.

Our Carl Miiler competed in what was a brutally windy and rainy day in Lethbridge.

Full Results here.

Mother's Day 10km Run.

Well, I celebrated my wife's 'Being a great Mom' day by high-tailing it out of the house, leaving her with the kid and telling her to 'Clean this damn place up'. I then proceeded downtown to be pack-fodder for the real runners. I finished a frustrating 8th loser, but am OK with my time as it was a tough course and my long hippy hair is unaero.

Full Results Here.

Airdrie Adrenalin 20km TT Results

Jason Wall made a come back today after being slowed with a sickness at Velocity. He won the 22 racer deep Crankmaster TT today with a time of 29:15

Fast-Legs-Frank was second on the podium only 8 seconds behind.

Lev, who is totally rad, came in third overall at 29:58

New-Rob, and Steve G. also raced for the club. New-Rob got a PB over the 20km distance I believe with a 31:13.

Full results here.

Thank you Crankmasters for hosting these great events.

Go Ryder !!

How awesome was it to watch the Canadian Flag flying through the finish in the fastest team time today? I think Ryder is Slipstream's 'Go To' guy this year. AWESOME !

[edits by rob]
There he is people! DaveZ's pedophile moustache has to go though, that thing scares me.

Crankmasters ITT this weekend.

The Crankmasters 20km ITT is this weekend in Airdrie. I'm planning on doing it and was wondering if anyone else was going? I'm putting in 90kms afterwards to ride home back through Cochrane and would love some company. Leave a comment if you are going to Airdrie for the TT.

Happy training!
J

Velocity Criterium

After a quick pitstop at the Fort Saskatchewan subway the Speed Theory train traveled to the Alberta Research Council grounds for an afternoon of technical turns and wind gusts.

Cat 5, lead by the speedy Mr. Kenny, put on a clinic with Lockie and Rob L putting in some quality time whipping up the pace. In fact, Rob L contested in the sprint and wound up touching down on the pavement. No worse for the wear he continued to be a rockstar for the rest of the day.

Cat 4 was rolling to the tune of none other than A-train who was rolling with a full head of steam. Alternating between lurking and charging off the front Alex made it a tough 30 minutes on the field. James T put in a huge effort to keep contact with the surging crowd.

Rod, Kristian and Jason were representatives in cat 3. Rod, a crit specialist, showed us all how it's done sneaking into a break and regulating the entire pack until the bell lap. It was only a tire width that prevented him from securing the win. Kristian powered around the course with the main pack keeping things under tight control. Unfortunately Jason pulled like a machine but his air intake system was suffering some early season allergies.

Cat 1/2 Featured our tough guys Steve and Trev. After a weird mechanical issue held up part of the peleton Trev and Steve had to fight back into the pack. It took a bit but Trev put in a herculean effort and regained contact and apply some pressure on the HnR boys. SteveO found himself with a small chase pack that seem content to let him do most of the work. In the end a strong showing from the top dudes.

[Edit by Trev] I placed no pressure on the HnR boys. The only pressure I felt was my heart about to burst from my chest.

Velocity TT

In a much anticipated start to the 2008 racing season Speed Theory descended upon Fort Saskatchewan / Edmonton with a fury reminiscent of a fair lady's scorn. Missing from the plot this year was the prairie tempest of brutal weather. Our legion of racers were able to toe the line in full skin suits, full discs and with only a whisper of wind. It was to be a display of raw power and wind cheating prowess.

The Cat 5 crew was comprised of Lockie, Mike Chui, New Rob, Old Rob, MikeG and Mr. Kenny. Lockie and new Rob put in stellar performances for their racing debut while MikeC and Old Rob put down strong rides to maintain lurker positioning in the GC. However, the morning belonged to the statesmen of Speed Theory with Mr. Kenny showing everyone what threshold effort really is and MikeG cheating the wind better than anyone taking 1st and 3rd respectively.

Cat 4 representation was provided by the dynamic duo of A Train and James T. Mr. T pitied the fools that couldn't match his finely tuned position and discipline with a strong TT. In the TT there can only be one and it was none other than Alex Shaw powering away from the field by 20 seconds. Can anyone stop this man?

Cat 3 featured Kristian, Jason and Rod (aka I don't like TTs). Strong solid performances by all the Speed Theory gents. Suffice it to say, these gents suffered hard and looked great doing it. I believe the entire crew finished top 15 with Rod securing 6th. Fast Legs Frank, a friend of speed theory, took the TT without foaming at the mouth.

Cat 1/2 is the home of Steve and Trev. Both have PhDs in suffering and showed that they can sit in the hurt box with the best of them. Trev's pain manifests itself in facial hair, people he was clean shaven at the start of the race. Steve, ever the class act, suffered but was sure to pep talk all the cat 5s that were hurting post TT.

up next . . . the crit (check the side bar for our new flickr feed and youtube channel)

How far ahead are we?

Some teasers from the Cat5 pack

Courtesy Rod Tiedemann from the Velocity Cycling Page.

Courtesy Rod Tiedemann from the Velocity Cycling Page.

Great weekend of racing!!

We'll get a post up here soon, but what a great weekend. Our Cat5 pack gelled as a team and brought home the overall win. A-Train TT'd and rode away from everyone for the overall Cat4 win, and Rod pulled some sweet moves to nip the Cat3 overall win by 2 seconds ! Exciting !

Stephen Kenney and old friend Ben Adam broke from the Cat5 field in the road race and duked it out for 25km off the front. The finishing straight was in a tailwind and we could watch from about 600m out. The both went to opposite sides of the lane and went at the sprint mano-a-mano. It was open season drag racing !! Awesome ! If someone has a link to the video of Vino doing that with someone in the Tour a few years back post it... it was just like that !!

I think everyone on the team had a good time in Edmonton regardless of how they placed. Old-Rob took some AWESOME pics of the crit we'll get up here soon with a report.

Velocity tt

Wow, there were some smokin results in the TT.

Cat 5 had Steve K. tearing the course up for the win. Mike G. pulled out a 3rd place and will be gunning for the crit this afternoon.

Cat 4 had a similar domination with Alex taking the win.

Cat 3 was take by a close friend of SpeedTheory (and a ST at heart). Frank W. showed he is not only a mountain goat, but he can crank out a short TT too. Rod ended up 6th (so much for not being able to tt), Kristian was 8th and Jason was 12th.

Cat 2 was a tight finish at the top with the top 8 within 20 or so seconds. Trev was 8th in a very stacked field.

All I can say about these performances is wow! That is an amazing showing.

Convoy up to Velocity.

Meet at my place ready to be driving out of the ghetto by 6pm Friday night.

Here are the people leaving my place at 6pm so far:
Trev is driving the ST Truck with Frank.
Alex is driving his truck with Steve G.
Old-Rob is driving little gay car with New-Rob

We will roll through Airdrie Tim Hortons at 6:25pm. Be there at that time to hook up with us.

Group Skills Ride with Mr. Kenny tonight.

Gang, meet at 7:00pm at the research park on your TT machines (or the machine you plan to use for the TT at Velocity).

If you are lucky, Stephen will show you how to drag your knee through a corner at high speed while remaining in the aerobars and whistling at the same time.

Time: 7:00pm
Where: Research Park
Who: YOU