M.S. Training Ride

http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=262330430448862&mid=4980e5fG5af32dc2ebd6Gf39debG7&bcode=x4hOkfjE&n_m=pedalplay%40eatel.net

M.S. Training Ride
Sunday, August 7 at 8:00am
Location: Peltier Park in Thibodeaux

Tarpon Triathlon

Date Saturday, September 03, 2011
Time 7:30 AM
Ride Number TarponTriathlon
Miles Swim 150 meter, Bike 10 Miles, Run 3 Miles
Ride Leader http://www.facebook.com/l/mAQCl50aqAQCXt3k9in7S-QUyoRN-nsy3l1PFVvBBBtyekQ/www.tarpontriathlon.com
Place Bayou Black Recreation Center 3688 Southdown Mandalay Rd Houma, LA
Notes $40 ind & $80 relay for early registration

Trail maintenance planned for this weekend

Robin Gibb Diamond
Nomambo has trail maintenance planned for this weekend. Looks like they meeting in the Spillway parking lot for 7:00am on both Saturday and Sunday. Ray (our trail maint chairman) plans to go help on one of the days and would like to get a group together to help out our fellow riders. I am planning to attend and right now we both are flexible as to which day we go. Post up if want to join and we can carpool/caravan.

4 Man Team Time Trial Championship

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are very sorry for the late notice. The Bayou Country Cyclists / Green Team and Tiger Cycling Foundation are proud to present the 2011 USCF LAMBRA 4 Man Team Time Trial Championships which will be held on Sunday, August 21. This year, the TTT Championships will be held in Labadieville, LA (a few miles north of Thibodaux, LA and about an hour or so south of Baton Rouge, LA). It will be a flat, out and back course. For more information, please see the event announcement below. For map information, visit our website at www.bccbike.org. Hope to see y'all there!!

http://www.lambra.org/calendar/2011/lambra_TTT_2011.pdf .

Matt Trahan

Voeckler’s Yellow Kit: Behind the scenes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoritSXzSho

MS-training rides have started!

The MS-training rides have started again this season and this Sunday's (July 24) ride will be at Alligator Bayou.
The start is at 8 AM at the Alligator Bayou parking lot. For those familiar in the area, the ride will follow the familiar route via Alligator Bayou to River Road and on to the split. The 36' route will be marked and there is a rest stop planned at Roberto's River Road restaurant.
Future training rides for this season will be mostly in the Abita Springs area. For details see the attached training ride schedule.

The actual MS-150 ride will be in the weekend of 1 and 2 October.
For further information see http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/bike-ms-louisiana/index.aspx

http://www.bikelouisiana.com/

http://www.bikelouisiana.com/

River Road Closure, July 15 - 22

LaDOTD has announced a TOTAL ROAD CLOSURE FOR LA 327 (RIVER ROAD) FROM THE EVENING OF JULY 15 THROUGH JULY 22 (day and night) Gardere Lane for 1000 feet west, including the intersection of Gardere Lane and River Road, to construct the final tie-in of the new River Road.

Please ride with caution in the area and be on the lookout for detour routes as well as work crews and their equipment.

LOOK 695 review in peloton magazine

Hello,

We wanted to share this great write up of the 695 in peloton magazine. Below is a link to the recently launched LOOK 695 video review. The review is also featured in the printed version of peloton issue number 05 being shipped now. It sounds like Ben Edwards enjoyed his time on the 695!!

http://www.pelotonmagazine.com/Tested-Bikes/video/8/719/LOOK-695-Video-Review_prerolldone

"Pillars of French Cycling" Film is slated to launch July 11 (Hutchinson and Time Sport) with Part Two scheduled for July 18 (LOOK Cycle and Mavic).

Check out the preview below:

http://www.pelotonmagazine.com/Special-Features/video/10/734/Pillars-of-French-Cycling-Preview_prerolldone

Thank you and have a great weekend!

Best regards,

LOOK Cycle USA

Just incredible!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw&vq=medium

Race Cancellations

I have just been informed that Race Mt. Driskill, scheduled for June 25-26, has been cancelled by the promoter. Last night I was informed that the popular Meridian-Cuba race weekend has also been cancelled. The LAMBRA calendar has been updated to reflect the changes.

- Randy

______________________________________
Randall Legeai
President, Louisiana-Mississippi Bicycle Racing Assn.
504-228-5891
http://www.lambra.org/

The Race Bible for the 2011 Tour de Louisian

The Race Bible for the 2011 Tour de Louisiane is available on the TDL website at:
http://www.neworleansbicycleclub.org/TDL/tourdela.htm

A couple of photos submitted recently from the 1975 Tour have been added to the NOBC history page:
http://www.neworleansbicycleclub.org/archives/images/TDL_1975a.jpg
http://www.neworleansbicycleclub.org/archives/images/TDL_1975b.jpg


- Randy.
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Randall Legeai
New Orleans Bicycle Club
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
http://www.neworleansbicycleclub.org/
http://nola_racing.blogspot.com/
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
Mario Andretti

Wetlands

www.olhcc.edu/x4070.xml

L.A. 31 Vuelta de Acadiana Race

Bayou Teche Brewing out of Arnaudville, LA presents

L.A. 31 Vuelta de Acadiana

Hosted by the Precision Bikes Racing Team

Registration is now open HERE.
http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=13402

Category 5 has sold out every year for this race. DO NOT DELAY, there is a 50 rider limit.

L.A. 31 Vuelta de Acadiana is now part of the East Regional Texas cup series so get ready to go head to head with racers from Texas.

HOTEL: Hampton - $99 - (337.266.5858) - 100 feet from crit finish line. Please reserve by JUNE 15th for the discount. Going Fast.

The Official Race link is HERE.
http://cajuncyclists.bicycleracing.com/PBR/Lavuelta.html

The entire venue has changed for 2011; please see the race bible for route locations.

Hope to see you there 4th of July weekend and thank you in advance for your support.

Tour de Louisiane Registration Now Open On BikeReg

Tour de Louisiane registration is now open on BikeReg:

http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=13523

Event details are at:

http://www.neworleansbicycleclub.org/TDL/tourdela.htm

Come race the oldest, continuously running stage race in the country.

For this year, the prize list has been increased to $6000. We have also
added Cat 3 and Master 55+ bonuses.

NOBC Members - please send you registration information to Randy so that
he can register you.

Hope to see everyone there!

Thanks,

Mark

Questions about the closure of River Rd by Farr Park

There have been questions about the closure of River Rd by Farr Park. I spoke to the levee police yesterday and River Rd is only closed to vehicles, not cyclist. They are using highly sensitive equipment to monitor vibrations in the levee and vehicles interfere with this. They have been made aware of the tues/thurs training race and they said that is not a problem. That said, stay off the levee, no one is allowed on the levee

So, come out out and enjoy a ride without all of the threatening traffic while it last!

Darron

Racing Rapides Saturday Results

http://www.lambra.org/results/2011/rapides_2011_r.html

______________________________________
Randall Legeai
President, Louisiana-Mississippi Bicycle Racing Assn.
504-228-5891
http://www.lambra.org/

Mt Driskill omnium Race

Ok guys and galls!

We are have the second annual Mt Driskill omnium this year but a bit earlier in the season and this time with an 8 am start rather than noon for the road race. Courses will be the same as last year. Cone join us for a great racing opportunity. Last year many people said it was the best lambra courses just really hot so we moved the dates up and started the races earlier. This year we have also added a 55+ cat that will start with the 40+ guys but be scored separately. So cone on out and bring your teammates!

I understand that the calendar says June and flyer says august. The race is the last weekend in June like the calendar states. Registration will be opening soon. Hope to see you guys there! Let's get this thing big!

Stephen Mire

Red Bug Hill Challenge

We would like to thank everyone who supported this year's Red Bug Hill Challenge. We had almost 200 riders and over 80 runners. We raised almost $25,000.00 for Spina Bifida of Greater New Orleans. The challenge results can be found on www.redbughill.com.

Thanks again for your support!
The family of Jordy Rourke: Mike, Marie, Kelley, Brian, and Melissa

Mississippi Senior Olympics
Thursday May 12, 2011
The day started out a little cool with some cloud cover and little sun. The 20K and 40K road races were set to roll first, with the 10K, 5K and 1 mile timed trials to follow. After a good warm up, all of the contestants headed to the start line to begin the races. The course is a 10K loop with 3 right hand turns, a few rolling hills and good pavement. We started out in a double pace line with myself and the other 50-54 year old rider, Fred McLaughlin from Florida, on the front. About 2 miles into the race, we went single file with Fred taking the first pull. After we made the first turn we picked up the speed a little as I settled into a long pull. When I rolled off the front the group was still together but starting to gap a little on the back so I slipped in about 4 wheels back to keep an eye on Fred. When Fred took his turn pulling again he opened a little gap so I had to move around a couple of riders to get his wheel again. After the second turn and several riders taking their turn on the front, I moved to the front as we approached the largest hill on the course. I kept the speed up around 20 mph and split the field up. Now it was just 4 of us in the lead group, Fred, Robert, James and I. We continued to work together and slowly pick the pace up as we motored through the second loop. As we rounded the last turn headed to the finish line of the 20K, we spotted a pickup truck parked in out lane. I was leading and began to pick up speed when Fred stood up to sprint and pulled around me. We had to move to the left lane to avoid the truck then the truck started to move, we checked up a bit then continued the sprint. Fred was slightly ahead of me as we crossed the line at 35 mph, then the truck started to turn left in front of us. We were yelling for him to stop and I made the decision that I couldn’t stop in time so I gunned it again and slipped right in front of the truck with only inches to spare, I thought for sure I was going to get hit but we all made it by safely. Fred took the gold and I the silver for the 20K. We continued for 2 more loops to complete the 40K, this time I let Fred lead out in the sprint and passed him at the line for the Gold medal.
After a 30 minute break we were up to the line again for the 10K timed trial, which would be one lap on the 10K loop. I went off first and never looked back; I completed the loop in a little over 17 minutes for the second gold medal of the day, about a minute and a half over second place. Next up was the 5K timed trial; this race was a straight line on good road with a slight wind at our back so the times were going to be fast. I again went off first and dropped the hammer for a personal best time of 7.42 minutes, which was good enough for my third gold medal. Finally the last race was here, a one mile timed trial on a section of the 5K course. I again was first off and did my best but Fred was able to beat me by 3 seconds for the gold so I picked up my second silver medal of the day.
The event was a success, I had 3 gold medals and 2 silvers and everyone finished safely. I also want to mention that everyone was asking where Mr. Alvarez was, as Jairo signed up but didn’t make the trip. I phoned Scott at Pedal Play to check on him and found out all was fine; he couldn’t make the trip for personal reasons. It is good to know that Jairo is so liked on the Senior Olympic circuit; he has defiantly made an impact on me as well as the other competitors. Now I’m looking forward to the National Senior Olympics in Houston, Tx. in June, wish me luck!