January 30th Party !

Club... don't forget to email Marie that you are riding in our fun pick-up bike race before the party.

What do you think? Should we challenge The Cranky's to a throw down that evening? Or maybe the new Puncheur club?

If you are waffling about emailing Marie, don't think it is a 'serious' race. Sure we'll go hard, but the best thing about the trainers is that everyone is in the same place! There is just as much possibility of getting beer split on you while in 1st or 15th !!  Also, you are allowed to have beer in your bottle cages, no Commissaires!  Do it... just do it.  Email Marie.

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Congratulations to Matt and Jenn Joss!

Long time club members and supporters (the Pallisades Capital logo on your jersey), Matt and Jenn successfully had twin boys this morning. Mom and boys are reported to be healthy and recovering! I will post updates and pictures as I receive them!

2016 Fun Race, AGM, and Party JANUARY 30

Happy New Year!!! 

It's time to celebrate a great race season in 2015, a successful J-Lap, and the onset of another exciting year.  We know everyone is super busy (and I don't just mean Darcy) so we've decided to combine our party with our AGM and a little something extra....  So don't dust off your stilettos and suits just yet. 

How about a little 10km ITT on the Computrainers?

For those of you with a little race fire in your bellies, we will be running 2 heats at the Engine Room (Speed Theory 735A -10 ST SW)
Nothing like beginning your season with a room full of your teammates yelling at you! Am I right?

Heat 1 can begin warming up at 5:45 and we will hit start at 6pm.  As soon as the bikes can be pulled off, Heat 2 can begin their warm up.

After the mayhem subsides, we will hold a brief AGM and State of the Union. We promise to keep it WAY shorter than Obama did. We'll aim for right around 7 pm for those of you who can't make it earlier to race or cheer.  There may be some fun awards... Please let me know if you are presenting any!  The award for "the best hair after a race" goes too....

After that it's a casual get together to reminisce and get hyped!

Pizza will be ordered and the beer will be cold.  There will also be a selection of wines and snacks a plenty.  Please bring a DD if you're planning to drink.  In fact, an excellent strategy would be to bring a friend whom you think might be interested in joining the team, as your DD.  Its a great way to get a vibe on what we are about. 

Reply to this post or email me (marie.michalski@gmail.com) and let me know if you are IN for the ITT. I will post the heats Friday (29th) night so you can mentally prepare for Saturday.

Hope to see as many of you there as possible!

Marie, Darcy, Trev, and Dennis

Suchaet says this place is available for May training camp.

Some STC club mates are already starting to book their rooms for the training camp in May. Suchaet has booked a guest house for him and Andreas. Apparently the club had the whole place booked last year and it worked out really well.

Here is the link to the place:  www.orchardsuites.net

We can talk more about the training camp at the party if you are a new member or new to thinking about attending the training camp and want more info.

STC descends on Phoenix for a brevet.

Mike Healy flew in from Dallas, Paul and I flew in from Calgary, and Stephen drove up from Tucson to meet for a chilly 200km Brevet this past Saturday. It being Phoenix and all, Paul and I thought we were escaping the cold for two days, but on the morning of the Brevet, we were greeted with 1 degree and thick water-enveloping fog. Yikes!   But throughout the day the fog burnt off and we got the course completed. The next day was the highlight of the trip as we drove a little East of Phoenix to a place called Apache Trail and rode to an old mining town called Tortilla Flats. The scenery was spectacular and the traffic minimal. Here are a few shots of the weekend:

Stephen, Trev, Paul, and Mike at Canyon Vista lookout near Tortilla Flats.

Just another ride in the desert ?!?!?!

2016 Club Membership is up.

Well 2015 was a good year!

Marie is busy planning a party tentatively scheduled for January 30th. We'll confirm in a couple days.

Membership fees have come down since we have applied for subsidy for the Criterium and will hope to hold it in a 'cheaper' location if it doesn't go through.

Club Membership form is here.   Sign up soon and we'll be able to do a clothing order soon so we have it before the May Training Camp or maybe even the April Spring Classics.

If you plan to race any ABA events in the summer, here is the Race License registration page.

Thank you everyone. Block Jan. 30th on your calendar for now and we'll update this post soon!


Trev

2017 Current Members

This list will be populated every week as club members register!

Here is the link to the current 2017 registration.

2017 Current Members (updated as of Mar. 27th 2017)

Dan Alboiu
Arvid Anvik
Brian Baron
Blake Bartlett
Daryl Beatty
Dennis Bland
Charles Bougie
Scott Bratt
Patrick Brick
Sherri Buchignani
Tamara Champagne
Ernie Cosman
Gavin Creighton
Ken Crockett
George Delogos
Chris DeVries
Susan Emerson
Tim Gilbertson
Darcy Gullacher
Michael Godfrey
Jared Green
Keith Ingstrup
Chuck Johnstone
Matt Joss
Jenn Joss
Stephen Kenny
Jo-Anne McGowan
Marie Michalski
Mark Michalski
Ben Mills
Kevin Mills
Peter Mora
Latifa Mousli
Kevin Noble
Stephen Pickett
Sanjeet Rai
Marty Smith
Joel Souchotte
Kevin Stenner
Loy Sullivan
Stacy Sullivan
Linda Sutherland
James Szarko
Marilyn Taylor
Klaus Vencovsky
Cat Young
Trev Williams
Darcy Zacharias

2016 Current Members

2016 Current Members

Dan Alboiu
Paul Anderson
Anna Choy
Eric Cramer

David Baker
Suchaet Bhardwaj

Blake Bartlett

Rod Batycky

Daryl Beatty

Dennis Bland
Harley Borlee

Charles Bougie

Scott Bratt
Patrick Brick
Sherri Buchignani

Titus Chan

Paul Chiswell

Ernie Cosman

Gavin Creighton

Ken Crockett

Rob Crooks

Jo-Anne De La Ronde

George Delogos
Shawn Dowling

Sue Emerson

Ken Erdman

Tim Gilbertson
Wayne Giles

Darcy Gullacher

Keith Ingstrup
Derek Jobson
Emily Jobson

Chuck Johnstone
Jenn Joss
Matt Joss

Stephen Kenny
Sean Keown

Nicole Lerner
Joseph Lian

Marie Michalski

Mark Michalski
Carl Miiller

Kevin Mills
Rob Mott

Kevin Noble

Alan Oickle
John Olsen
Andres Perdomo

Simon Spanswick

Kevin Stenner
Loy Sullivan
Stacy Sullivan

Marilyn Taylor

Klaus Vencovsky
Jamie Weikum
Justine White

Nelson Whitmore

Trev Williams

Addition to the Junior Team

A new story is brewing...

Classy move from an STC club member in Squamish yesterday.

I just got an email from a BC rider who thanked someone from the team for lending him a wheel yesterday at the Squamish CX Provincials. It allowed him to complete the race. Cool. He said it was an STC cyclist, and not an ST cyclist from Vancouver, but didn't catch the name since he was delirious at the finish.

Anyway, thanks for being a great ambassador whoever you are!

Trev

The race between the races.

It was great to watch all the STC'ers out racing Beans and Barley yesterday. I got a hoarse voice yelling at everyone.

Just in case people had left, or were warming up for the next races, here is a shot of the next generation of competition! Here is Taylor crushing a set of barriers. Wait until she turns 3 !

Taylor making a move on the barriers.

Fundraising for The Alberta Childrens Hospital by Wayne Giles

Club member Wayne has asked me to post this for him!


The charity he is raising funds for is using an event called Extra Life.

Quick explanation.

·         What is Extra Life?

o   Extra Life is a charity is started by gamers to support the Children’s Miracle Network.

o   Participants pledge to play games (video, board, pen and paper it doesn’t matter) for 24 hours, typically on the game day which this year is November 7th.

·         Does my donation go to my local hospital?

o   Your donation will go to whatever hospital that the participant is supporting.  In my case that is the Alberta Children’s Hospital here in Calgary.

·         How much of donation goes to the hospital?

o   Your entire donation goes to the supported hospital.  Yes Extra Life has staff however they are paid through industry sponsorships.  Your entire donation will go to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Link to my donation page:

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=146499

An important note is online donations are made in USD.  Extra Life notes the exchange rate on the day you donated, and then that is sent to the hospital after the event, so that the Canadian hospitals do not get hurt by fluctuating exchange rates.

 If you have any question feel free to ask by e-mailing me at LewsKinslayer0@gmail.com

Thank you, Wayne.

Midweek Mayhem Year End Party

Club... I just signed up for the year-end Midweek get-together and there are only about 4 other STC'ers on the list....  get your name on there!!

Trev

Richmond Report

I made it to Richmond for Worlds. It was an awesome experience. I watched the women's race on Saturday and the men's on Sunday, the forecast called for rain but it held off.

Libby Hill was the place to be

Spent my time on 23rd Street Hill

Boivin in the early break

Boonen and Greipel spent lots of time up front

Valverde in the mix

Kristoff is a big dude

Am I looking cool without my car?

Phinney had problems all day with his bike

Not sure why Tony and the Germans were blocking here

I stayed at the Holiday Inn, same place as Michal

Richmond did an excellent job, world class. The race was always unpredictable. Sagan was totally hidden and exploded on the 23rd street hill in the last lap.