We have had a great week of riding!
ICC Joel Pritchard residing in Champaign, IL was able to join a small group for a ride on Saturday, 8/24/13 for a 70 mile ride from Carmel, IN. That's a 4 hour drive for a 4+ hour ride! Thanks for your commitment to the team Joel!
ICC Abbie McWilliams, Richard Shevitz, Amy VandeWielle, Nathan Saxe and Sam Scahill along with ICC friends Gary Baumann and Tom Berlier had a nice adventure ride on Sunday, 8/25/13. We hit some challenging hills on a couple of our regular routes south of Indianapolis. We finished with a little over 70 miles however the ride was a bit slower with 3 flat tires and numerous mechanical issues. Our legs must have needed all of the breaks! It was a good time nonetheless!
We had a record turnout at Blue Tuesday this week with 29 riders! Wow!
Our destination rides are getting closer so we are focusing on longer climbing rides!
Tailwinds!
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Gran Fondo - FIrst Time
This weekend, there will be a number of Cure Chasers riding in the first annual Roll Fast Gran Fondo, leaving out of Fort Benjamin Harrison for a little 100+ mile jaunt through the countryside on the North East side of Indy!
We are excited to be a part of this epic event with a ICC presence and as it happens this ride matches with our distance goals for this time in our training!
Speaking of which, I have had the opportunity to ride with a couple of new comers to our team recently Brian Wuff (who put the hurt on me 2 Saturdays ago on his home turf ride) and Amy VanDewielle (new comer to the ride aspect only of our team but an important part for almost 3 years now :)) who joined a number of us for a 52 mile ride a couple of weeks ago with almost 4,000 feet of vertical and showed that she is not afraid to climb!
Then showing up the following week for a personal longest 75 mile ride, making the 2000+ feet of climbing on that route look easy!
Blue Tuesdays continue to be well attended and I am constantly getting comments from guest to our rides about how our team is a lot of fun to ride with and admiration for the communication and safety that we display on every single ride.
Way to go team!
Looking forward to seeing many of you at the Gran Fondo this coming weekend!
Michael
We are excited to be a part of this epic event with a ICC presence and as it happens this ride matches with our distance goals for this time in our training!
Speaking of which, I have had the opportunity to ride with a couple of new comers to our team recently Brian Wuff (who put the hurt on me 2 Saturdays ago on his home turf ride) and Amy VanDewielle (new comer to the ride aspect only of our team but an important part for almost 3 years now :)) who joined a number of us for a 52 mile ride a couple of weeks ago with almost 4,000 feet of vertical and showed that she is not afraid to climb!
Then showing up the following week for a personal longest 75 mile ride, making the 2000+ feet of climbing on that route look easy!
Blue Tuesdays continue to be well attended and I am constantly getting comments from guest to our rides about how our team is a lot of fun to ride with and admiration for the communication and safety that we display on every single ride.
Way to go team!
Looking forward to seeing many of you at the Gran Fondo this coming weekend!
Michael
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Training Log for the week of 5-13 thru 5-20
Post your training miles in the comments for this week and let us know how your riding is going Indiana Cure Chasers!
Friday, May 10, 2013
Training Log for the week of 5-6 thru 5-12
Tell us what you did Team!
We have a weekend Ride leaving from SWW at 7am Saturday morning, if that is to early, let us know and we will loop back to pick up a second wave.
Some of our team is going to do the assault on Mount Mitchell on the 20th so we are doing some longer rides early to get ready! This early season century has over 11,000 feet of elevation gain and finishes atop Mt Mitchell the highest point this side of the Mississippi!
Also, those of you planning to ride with the Cure Chaser Squad on the RAIN ride in July, it's not to early to start extending those miles.
But tell us what you did this week!
Sam and Michael
We have a weekend Ride leaving from SWW at 7am Saturday morning, if that is to early, let us know and we will loop back to pick up a second wave.
Some of our team is going to do the assault on Mount Mitchell on the 20th so we are doing some longer rides early to get ready! This early season century has over 11,000 feet of elevation gain and finishes atop Mt Mitchell the highest point this side of the Mississippi!
Also, those of you planning to ride with the Cure Chaser Squad on the RAIN ride in July, it's not to early to start extending those miles.
But tell us what you did this week!
Sam and Michael
Monday, May 6, 2013
Blog Your Training
Hey Team
We know that all of you have busy schedules and often can not make it to any of the 3-4 team training sessions that we have every week.
I know for example, that Joel Pritchard (we miss you Joel) can not drive over from Illinois every week any more than Steve Lewis can drive up from Kentucky (nice to ride with your Saturday BTW Steve!)
I also know that you all realize that you need to train in order to meet your goals at your destination (for you national riders) and your goals for the season (for our state supporting team) and former riders, (because we know you still love us). So what Sam and I would like to do is offer you a way to share your training with your team mates on a regular basis.
Training Tuesday 4-30-13 Blue Tuesday Hills
Did 32 miles to the top of observatory and back, my crazy team members talked me into riding the big hill 3 times. You bet it hurt, but I am so glad that I did it!
Or
Wednesday Training 5-1-13
Trained by myself today, rode 10 miles through housing additions and on bike paths at a leisurely pace. Got to see some real neat houses and got chased by a rabbit and a squirrel. This brings my total miles to the season to 100!
These are just a couple of examples
You can also just post replys after the initial thread is started for the day so that we can see what our team mates are doing and thinking in preparation for their various rides.
You guys are a great team, let's let the rest of the world know just how great and make the Indiana Cure Chasers the team everyone wants to be on!
We know that all of you have busy schedules and often can not make it to any of the 3-4 team training sessions that we have every week.
I know for example, that Joel Pritchard (we miss you Joel) can not drive over from Illinois every week any more than Steve Lewis can drive up from Kentucky (nice to ride with your Saturday BTW Steve!)
I also know that you all realize that you need to train in order to meet your goals at your destination (for you national riders) and your goals for the season (for our state supporting team) and former riders, (because we know you still love us). So what Sam and I would like to do is offer you a way to share your training with your team mates on a regular basis.
- This will help to keep you accountable for your training, give you an opportunity to log your miles/activity and encourage your team mates while staying a bit more connected.
- This also will give us the added benefit of looking for trends and opportunities that may help us to train together as the larger team on a more regular basis.
- In addition, you can share the blog on Facebook, with your friends and family, to use all of the teams experience and efforts to garner more support for your ride. Gary Martindale always writes a really nice summary of his experience in Death Valley and shares that with his supporters.
Training Tuesday 4-30-13 Blue Tuesday Hills
Did 32 miles to the top of observatory and back, my crazy team members talked me into riding the big hill 3 times. You bet it hurt, but I am so glad that I did it!
Or
Wednesday Training 5-1-13
Trained by myself today, rode 10 miles through housing additions and on bike paths at a leisurely pace. Got to see some real neat houses and got chased by a rabbit and a squirrel. This brings my total miles to the season to 100!
These are just a couple of examples
You can also just post replys after the initial thread is started for the day so that we can see what our team mates are doing and thinking in preparation for their various rides.
You guys are a great team, let's let the rest of the world know just how great and make the Indiana Cure Chasers the team everyone wants to be on!
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