Club Meeting Recap

We had a great turn out for last nights meeting, 15 to 20 people. Here is a recap of the discussion.

1. I have been speaking with people from the downtown association about putting on a criterium downtown in 2009. I'm getting nothing but positive feedback and willingness to help. My hope is to make this an annual event and grow it each year. I'll be meeting with the downtown association within the next couple of weeks and keep everyone informed.

2. Cross race in fall of 2008. Mark Cleaver with all the help we can give him is up for taking the lead on a cross race some time this October. This will be a great event to get junior racers involved with racing. I'm very excited about this event, mainly because I'm amazed at what people are able to do on cross bikes.

3. Racing in 2008. The first race people plan to attend is the Jack Frost Time Trial February 24 in Vancouver, Washington. There will be a few of us going, if you want to go and need a ride email me at dgrcycling@clearwire.net. The following weekend is the beginning of the Mason Lake road race series in Mason Lake Washington. The Oregon schedule can be found at http://app.obra.org/schedule the Washington schedule can be found at http://www.wsbaracing.com/events.asp

4. Charity Event for this May. May is national bike month and May 12 through the 16th is ride to work week http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bikemonth/ We are looking and doing a bike-a-thon either for the month or the commute week. Get a team of two together, collect donations per/mile either for the month, or the commute week depending on what we decide. Top 3 teams will get prizes and this year the money collected will be donated to the Yakima Greenway Foundation Each year we will donate the proceeds to a local charity. Shannon also brought up a great idea to use proceeds to create a scolarship fund for a local cyclist. We will be looking in to this more. So, get your team together and start harassing people for money.

5. Corey Sinclair attended the meeting representing the CWU Cycling Club and had some great news. They are planning to put on a collegiate stage race this year in Ellensburg. I asked him to keep us informed and we would be happy to help any way we can. A collegiate stage race in Ellensburg will bring the top collegiate cyclists in the Northwest to Ellensburg. A criterium in Ellensburg would be a great way to spend an evening.

Those are the highlights of the meeting. Also, Revolution is moving bikes from the old shop to the new shop beginning at 9:00 am this Saturday morning, if you have a car with racks they could use the help. Follow it up with a ride led by Troy at 11:00.

See you on the road