2010 dEVas Rides!

Hello dEVas and Ellevation riders,

Escape Velocity dEVas together with Ellevation Women's Cycling Club are putting on some pre-Spring Series training and skills rides. The rides will primarily be friendly group rides, with some race-specific skills teaching during the rides. There will be opportunities for women of all experience and fitness levels to get specific instructions and a good workout too. This will be excellent preparation for Escape Velocity's Spring Series!

When: February 13th and 27th 9:30am
Where: Calhoun's Coffee Shop 3035 West Broadway (between Bayswater and Balaclava)
What: Rides will be approximately 3 hours in duration, so bring appropriate attire food and fenders (strongly suggested)



Hope to see you all out - bring your friends! Non-dEVa and Ellevation riders welcome.

Lisa Howard

It's ALL about Performance!

Hello dEVas

Due to holidays, and low turn out on rides, Lisa and I have decided that we will take a break from scheduled rides for the month of Aug. Feel free to post on the blog if you are planning a ride and want others to know about it or show up for the EV ride Saturday morning leaving at 9am from Calhouns.

Year end party coming soon. Check back for date and location.

Wednesday July 22

Come ride, Come ride, Come ride this afternoon at 6 pm, leaving from la bicicletta

Saturday July 18th

Change of plans for this weekends ride. I've been asked by a couple of people if we can head out to Horseshoe bay. You ask and you shall receive!! I feel like something more exciting than more paceline drills, so we will meet at 9am as usual at Calhouns and then head out to HS Bay.

See you Saturday

Wednesday July 15th

6pm Ride leaving from Bicicletta on Wednesday night. Let me know where you want to ride. I'm up for anywhere and any distance. Let me know if you are going to come.....i don't want to ride alone!!

July 4th

Don't forget we are riding again tomorrow morning. 9 am the ride rolls out but come early for coffee.

dEVa Ride Sat June 20th

We are back on track with dEVa rides on Saturday after the little hiatus at Enumclaw. We are going to work on team time trialing this week. I would like to head to the North Shore for a longer ride to horseshoe bay and cypress, with some team time trialing along the highway to cypress. See you at Calhouns tomorrow morning.

Thursday Night Racing Ladies!

Come on ladies, come join me racing tonight in Richmond at the Thursday Nighters! We need more women out racing, and we really need some dEVa presence!

I will be leaving Main and Ontario at 515 at the latest. Claire TT'd me out to the race in time for last week!

Its a super fun course, flat and fast! And getting out there on time is not only a great warm up but part of the race for us Cat 4's!

oh and not that you need more convincing but you should know that it's been common to win bags of licorice for the prime. This is what last week's winner did with her prize.

Below is more info.

See you out there!
Liisa

Team Coastal is proud to present a criterium race series held every Thursday night from May through August. The races are centrally located in Richmond and offer great competition for all levels of competitive cyclists. The 1.8 km flat course will provide an excellent opportunity for up and coming racers to train and refine their racing skills.

Notification of Race Cancellation Please Note If it is raining the races will be cancelled for that evening. We will update the web site home page by about 4pm on race day if we decide to cancel.

Wet roads are OK but we don't want our volunteers standing in the rain. Check the link below for current local weather... look for the Richmond area. Lots of color means lots of rain and the Thursday Night Challenge race is probably cancelled. Local Weather Radar
Download the form here. and waiver here
Click the map to the right to enlarge and view...

There will be races for each of the following categories:

• Senior Men A's
• Men B's
• Men C's
• Women
• Junior's U16

Team Coastal is putting up a minimum purse of $1000 to be won based on overall omnium points accumulated over the duration of the series. As well, Coastal's clothing sponsor, Giordana will be providing a special custom designed jerseys for the overall winners of each of the race categories.

The points will be distributed for each night's race as follows:

• 1st - 4 points
• 2nd -3 points
• 3rd - 2 points
• 4th -1 points
• 5th -1 points

Note, new times:

Sign on Starts at 5:45 pm with Cat C Men, & Women and juniors starting their race at 6:30 pm. Please bring your race licence when you register for the first time. Day of race licenses are available.

Team Coastal welcomes you all and looks forward to a fun, fast, and safe series of racing.

Westside Classic

The women’s race took a while to shape up with a small move just holding a 10 second lead for a number of early laps. The Queen of the Mountain competition started to heat things up with the ladies fighting it out for the $250. Jean Ann McKirdy from the Local Ride team took the prize and helped form the winning move, which included her teammate Laura Brown, Naomi Cooper (dEVO), Kristine Brynjolfson (Westwood Cycle/Cannondale). Lisa Howard (Escape Velocity) and Marie Claude Gagnon (Glotman Simpson) were just dangling off the back of this move. When the group passed the Finish with two laps to go it was clear the winner would come from the lead four. Coming in to the finish straight Laura Brown took advantage of some great teamwork and came through with the win. Naomi Cooper was second ahead Bryjolfson, McKirdy and Howard made up the top five.


Nice work Coach Howard! The dEVa's are proud of ya baby!

this saturday

is there anything on the book for this sat morning? Claire what about redo'ing the dEVa session that we missed due to the being in Washington???

Wednesday Ride

6pm La Bicicletta- Who is in?