FLCC> [Cookies] Tuesday night success! + kids biking?

Thu Apr 10 10:24:19 EDT 2008

Hey Don, I presume you mean having me around instead of Felix is good 
for the rest of you because that will be less competition on hilly B 
group races? ;)

Having my name mentioned was a motivation to join this list myself, 
instead of hearing about it 2nd hand from my spouse. I was grateful for 
Don's lesson plan, supported by assistant teacher Daniel, and riding 
with other women for a change was a great pleasure, even though I think 
each of them will kick my butt in sprints next week. But by August, I'll 
have lost the rest of my pregnancy weight (All 55 pounds of it. As a 
5'2" nutrition student, I love to shock my colleagues with that number), 
and maybe you'll have to watch out. Or maybe not.

Speaking of obesity, I'm involved in a county project to prevent it in 
childhood through community action and change. As we passed the rare but 
wonderful sight of two kids on bikes Tuesday night, while I was enjoying 
the casual but brilliant pedagogy of our biking mentors, I wondered what 
this group is doing, or might like to do, to help making biking more 
accessible to kids and families. If there is already some kind of action 
group, or some of you might like to be part of one, please email me 
(cp226 at cornell.edu) or call (272 7330) and we can connect. Maybe discuss 
a bit 'offline' and then share our semi-organized thoughts over this 
list? We'd need some leading/organizing (which this group doesn't seem 
to be short of!) but also some people willing "just" to volunteer for 
approaches we might dream up (e.g., connecting with the bike recycle 
place to ride with/support recently equipped kids).

Cheers,
Christine

Wayne Gottlieb wrote:
> I think going to Thomas road was a good choice.  There
> was a lot of mingling of the groups that went up
> Ringwood.  It was nice to have rabbits to catch up
> Ringwood and along Midline, but this didn't work well
> for consistant pacelining.  Groups merged and emerged
> and I found it difficult to keep a good paceline
> going.  I also found it difficult to work with a mixed
> group when some are chomping at the bit.  Eventually,
> I found myself in a group of 4 doing a very nice
> paceline up Ellis Hollow Creek.  Two were new Cornell
> Kids who were fast, but needed practice.  I wonder if
> we could organize groups based on speed and send
> faster groups out first. On the other hand, I had a
> great ride and there was a nice sprint finish on Ellis
> Hollow Creek.  Wayne
>
> --- Donal Fitterer <DonalFitterer at vectormagnetics.com>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> I want to add my compliments to the group. We had an
>> awesome squad.
>> Everyone was interested and interesting. Watch out
>> in the C's because
>> Ruth is a power house. She even beat me in the town
>> line sprint on
>> Snyder (no jokes about my inability to sprint
>> Ernie!).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Hopefully we will see more of Christine on Tuesday's
>> which is
>> unfortunate for Felix but good for the rest of us.
>> We were pace lining
>> like pros by the end of Ellis Hollow Creek and by
>> the time we were on
>> top of Snyder we were cruising in the  high 20's and
>> I am sure we hit
>> 30mph a couple of times.
>>
>>  
>>
>> See you all next  week.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Don
>>
>>  
>>
>> From: cookies-bounces at icycle.org
>> [mailto:cookies-bounces at icycle.org] On
>> Behalf Of Daniel Kidney
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:42 PM
>> To: flcc at icycle.org; Communication among Cookies
>> Subject: [Cookies] Tuesday night success!
>>
>>  
>>
>> The weather couldn't have been better. My timing
>> could have been, but in
>> retrospect missing my ride and spending more time on
>> the bike was a good
>> thing. Getting to the parking lot at 6:12 worked out
>> just fine too; the
>> whole (sizable) group was still there which
>> presumably means there was
>> some lively verbal instruction given beforehand, or
>> some lively
>> socializing, or most likely both. I considered going
>> out with some of
>> the groups that claimed intentions of riding briskly
>> (leaving within
>> seconds of my arrival), but in consideration of my
>> own comments last
>> night, and at the calls of LiLynn and Sara to stay
>> and chat... I ended
>> up going out with the last group which, once again,
>> turned out for the
>> better (I wasn't there to see that the others were
>> worse... but it
>> turned out well in any case). 
>>
>> We rode out in a good size bunch but arriving at
>> Stevenson Rd we split
>> up into some small learning groups. Don and myself
>> went out with four
>> women: Ruth, Christine, Becky (I believe) and, Blue
>> Shirt (sorry!). Don
>> gave an overview of our intentions (to pace line)
>> and we took off out
>> Ellis Hollow Creek, cutting back to Thomas, and
>> finishing up Snyder
>> Hill. Although many assume I'm in great shape from
>> my long journey
>> (which might be true to some extent, although I
>> certainly wasn't
>> racing), one thing I haven't been doing for the past
>> 18 months is riding
>> in a group. I definitely need to re-adapt to the
>> practice, but I can
>> gladly say that my little group was a great success!
>> The four women,
>> from what I could tell, had ridden a fair bit, but
>> not in groups before.
>> I tried to dole out useful advice and simultaneously
>> not forget my own
>> words. Don kept us all together with a nice
>> 'program' (it seemed as if
>> he had made a lesson plan). In the end though, I
>> presume that it was our
>> 'students' who made things run so smoothly. It was a
>> very nice sized
>> group and we managed to nicely balance socializing
>> and practicing our
>> pace line. All our students learned very quickly
>> (much more so than I
>> did a few years back at my first Tuesday night
>> experience) and we had a
>> very smooth fun ride, thanks! LiLynn topped
>> everything off by loaning me
>> a helmet (indefinitely?) to replace my rather
>> 'scraggly' (and definitely
>> USCF-illegal) one while I "purchase" another (the
>> question is will she
>> still remember it was hers next week, the following
>> week, next year??).
>>
>> If folks from my group happen to be reading this I
>> know at least some of
>> you asked about the Thursday Slow rides and I didn't
>> know where they
>> were meeting this year. If you look back a few days
>> on the listserv you
>> can find a little conversation about last week's
>> ride which apparently
>> went off quite nicely. The meeting time is 5:30 and
>> the place is on the
>> west side of the lake at what is called " Cayuga
>> Professional Center
>> Medical/Dental Plaza" (near the hospital), the exact
>> location of which
>> is shown on this map:
>>
>>     
> http://flcycling.org/flcc/maps/locations/towesthill.shtml
>   
>> I highly encourage anyone to go as I know that it's
>> populated with
>> wonderful folks; I should really attend but it seems
>> that every Thursday
>> there is meeting on sustainability or something else
>> of significant
>> interest to me. In a couple weeks though I'll start
>> ignoring the
>> meetings.
>>
>> Some plans were quickly laid out for a slideshow;
>> the tentative location
>> is LiLynn's house. The sooner we set the date the
>> fewer photos I will
>> have time to remove from the full line up (of about
>> 3000). Looking
>> forward to seeing you all at LiLynn's! (I'll try to
>> make it on time next
>> week too).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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