More TTT

Our TTT info is updated with the dates for practice

The ITT event will be used for stack ranking, for our "Show Time" event the TTT.
We want to include everyone and we have options for 4 man and 2 man teams. It's more likely that we need everyone to participate. If we can not hone our skills together we can not expect to perform on race day so we want to practice together.

Many have scheduling conflicts, and this is one thing that makes a TTT tough to pull off. Please use the form to let us know you can make the dates.

As an alternate to the Valley location, PCH has been suggested and the Grand Masters have used this TT course too.

TIME TRIAL TRAINING
Where: PCH starting at Trancas Road, north to Big Rock.

See route and elevation at: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1671942
20K non-stop course… no turn around or lights.
Start line will be on PCH north of Trancas Road, just past the gas station. This is a timed
event!
To get there:
· Ride from Santa Monica… about 20 mile warm up ride to the start
· Drive to Cross Creek , park. 9 mile warm up ride to start
· Drive to Trancas, Plenty of Parking with room for your trainer/rollers

Mid week Practice LA river Trail. "Glendale ISH"

TTT training Sunday 4/27 AM

TTT training video. We are seeing ourself for the first time. turn down the sound-
(a contender for "the worst video ever posted") Not the subjects- the camera phone and my voice. Beyond that here it is.

Re: from Marc Thomas on Vimeo.

Second video

ttt video from Marc Thomas on Vimeo.

Casting Call - Update on Who's In 4/27

Submit your info to Nick

For Sunday map to Sundance cycle
Calling all TTT guys: Our first meeting/training ride will be on Sunday 4/27 at the place that Brad is suggesting below. Let's be there at 8:30am suited-up in your Sunday best and ready to confer and go.

I'd suggest everyone bring the bikes they'd be intending to use for the TTT including any clip-on aero bars if you're planning to use your road bike. No need to bring fancy wheels/discs unless you want to.
We can meet around Kanan and Thousand Oaks Blvd, there is a parking lot there by Sundance Bicycles. From there, we take Agoura Road around West lake, which gives us a nice few miles of flat road without many cars, and nice scenary. We then go through Lake Malibu, also scenic, from there, we get to Hidden Valley. We can climb Portrero if we want and continue along
other rural roads.

Alan Zarembo
Nick Gillock
Bubba
Stratton Easter
Lee Ziff
Marc Thomas
Brad Gage
John Hausman
Andres Villalta
Roy Silver

Dates proposed--
Sunday 4/27 -Brad G, Nick G, Paul Strauss, Marc T, Andres V



Saturday 5/3 lake Piru
Saturday 5/10
Saturday 5/17 or Sunday 5/18
05/24 ITT Championships (Stack ranking or best ITT)
Sunday 5/25
Saturday 5/31 or Sunday 6/1
06/07 SCNCA TTT Championsh



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Tuesday nite crit. pratice 6 PM

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Start Time & Location

Ride starts at about 6:00 PM, Tuesday nights, Rain cancels the ride.
Business Park just off of Lomita Blvd. in Torrance. Major cross streets are Lomita Blvd. at Telo Ave. between Crenshaw Blvd. and Hawthorne Blvd.
Directions:
From 110 Freeway, exit Lomita Blvd. and head east to Telo Ave.
Course: Kashiwa Street, Kashiwa Court, Fujita Street, and Telo Ave.
Overview:
Tuesday night training ride/race. Open group ride on open roads with minimal traffic and no stop signs.
Distance: 25 laps around a 1 mile business park loop-Typically 1 hour and 5 minutes
Other:
Anyone can show up and ride and they usually do. There's no cost!

Tornado Tom's Voodoo

Bakersfield RR course

from what I can find online. I'm fairly certain this is this year's course.

Riding or Hiding? Tan lines don't lie...

It's that time of year when the sun comes out and the armwarmers come off. So, we're going to have a contest!

I've got a couple of LaGrange water bottles for whoever sends me a photo of their best tan line. Cycling tan lines only, please... don't go there.

mattdmiami@yahoo.com

The winner and runner-ups will be posted on our exclusive team blog. You have until next Sunday (4/20) 3pm to submit.

Good luck in the most important competition of the season...

May Races

Here is what we have so far for MAY. it's Ready

I added a few hints to work in Google docs on the first tab if you're not familiar with the layout.
05 El Dorado Tuesday Crit
05/03 Barrio Logan
05/04 San Luis Rey RR
05/04 Pounding Idiots Crit Dominguez Hills
05/10 Bakersfield RR – Master's Championships Ready
05/11 Bakersfield RR - Elite Championships Ready
05/17-18 Vuelta Valencia SR-Valencia Cancled
05/18 Ontario crit 3
05/24 ITT Championships
05/25 Barry Wolf Crit
05/26 Dominguez Hills Crit
05/31 Dana Point Mste. Crit chp Ready
05/31 Aliso Viejo Grand Prix

June Place holder too (not much here yet)

anthill

The weekend's racing action began mid-week with plenty of LGer's in the bike shop talking about crit bike projects. With a tax return in my future I dopped some bones and made good use of Ian's sticker project. But I wasn't the only one as I saw the Haus, MT and others all contemplating the inevitable.

While Lee-to-the-Z was putting on clinic after clinic in Redlands, our cameras were trained on an Anthill. The A-to-the-Z finished off a great cat 5 career throwing gasoline on a fire trying all he could to literally and figuratively leave the world of cat. 5's behind. It was his second race and second venue of the day. But if you can't out-race your friends, you can out race-report them.

Anthill brought out plenty of usual suspects. Plenty of the unexpected. Plenty of LGers racing two races. But a lot of what ended up happening was just a repeat of what happened last weekend. Stratton started his career as a 4 the same way he ended his legacy as a 5. Racing under a random alias and celebrating a win.

But it wasn't without drama. MT and the whole crew were putting up a strong fight working well on the front lap after lap. I decided I should run to my car and document their efforts but when I arrived back at turn one with camera in hand the atmosphere had changed and there was no longer a shark circling the anthill. 

Instead spectators rushing back to the final turn hoping for the best. What we found was a little bit of skin, but not in a good way. Luckily no LGers were hurt too badly, just bruised pride. Maybe MT was just following Cordero's line. In case you were wondering, yes there is paper work when you get caught up in a pavement dogpile. I guess four hay bails are all you need to stop a moving train.

Google sign up page Google Docs help

Edit this page =edit+this+page.jpg (image/jpeg) 5K

navigate across the sheet =NAVIGATE.jpg (image/jpeg) 10K

hide, sort, or view files G_docs_view.jpg (image/jpeg) 57K

G_docs_navigate_to_the_Sheet_You _Want.jpg (image/jpeg) 130K
The Tabs at the bottom and the < > to move to other sheets. Click the blue race name you want to review.


All
I feel bad that folks are having problems with Google Docs - (It's not just you) so I'm replying to the blog and you as a bit of help for anyone that needs a walk through or is new to the Google Docs tool. I hope this helps.

The short answer. Log in to Google docs.- navigate to the sheet look for the list of races (Bottom tabs) <, or > to move left, right -and add your name.
Click "Save and close" when you're done.

The more complete answer.

First before you can edit anything in Google Docs you need to sign up for a google account. No you do not need to use Gmail or have Google take over everything. You just need to have a Google account and password.

Two ways to get into the files:

1. From the published sheets (Two Published files -April races, May Races)- you can click through and see what you need/want, but you need to log in to edit them.
You may have no problem navigating -so the trick is "How to login to edit" On the bottom right of the page in your Internet browser window, Scroll down and as far to the right as possible - there is a little text "edit this page" attached edit+this+page.jpg (image/jpeg) 5K It always brings you to the first sheet of the file, but not to the sheet you want, so navigate to the correct sheet using the arrows at the bottom next to the race names NAVIGATE.jpg (image/jpeg) 10K attached.
In my browser they are a set of stacked ">" & "<" signs to move to the left or right.

2. If your in the blog click on the Who's Racing? - Add yourself to the list link.

So your in .... This gives you a list of document that you can view and edit. (I have chosen to hide all the old files from my view) you can hide, sort.... by clicking the top of the column name "name" sorts by name. Here is what I'm seeing. G_docs_view.jpg (image/jpeg) 57K

Again the sheets are like Microsoft Excel and have a list of races on separate sheets by the month. Example -April races has G_docs_navigate_to_the_Sheet_You _Want.jpg (image/jpeg) 130K

Hope this helps, Please feel free to call me if this is giving you trouble
Marc

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Lee Ziff <lee@leeziff.com> wrote:

Marc,

Great work on that sign up page. I'm having trouble adding my name. What am I doing wrong?

Lee

No Handelbars- A first quarter review

The music is new -not everyone's taste, but I gota post it with the photos.