Sponsored by the CRCA and Team Moneygram
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Central Park/The Rambles Parking Lot/East Drive at 81st Street
Sunday, May 29th 2005 6 am to 9 am
Register online at :racelistings.com.
What you’ll do:
Learn the fundamentals of bike racing! Participate in a simulated road race! 3 loops of the Landmark Central Park loop–fully marshalled with pace vehicle and coaching. The first lap is controlled, the next two are competitive. Expert racers will guide you throughout. Pre-race clinic and post-race recap will cover bike preparedness, racing safety, rules of road racing, race tactics, and training.
Prizes for winners:
Lots of free stuff (water bottles, socks, helmets, etc.)! Open to men 18 and older. Bicycles must have front and rear brakes, no aerobars.
How Much?:
$10.00 entry fee (includes one day USCF license).
For more info and updates visit the CRCA website at crca.net.
@##=#<6,L>@##=#Matt Howard (Blue Ribbon/Translations.com), an excellent cat 3 racer, recalls his experience at the clinic in 2002:
I definitely got a lot out of it, and I always tell people that’s what got me hooked on racing. I still remember it pretty well. On the first lap I followed some attack near the bottom of the park, and I remember being completely on the rivet, and Ira from Moneygram casually riding alongside me, not even breathing hard, encouraging me and telling me to get a little lower to be more aerodynamic. I had been doing hill repeats with a NYCC group on Harlem Hill during the week, so on the last lap I decided to attack there at the bottom. I got a big gap then blew up almost immediately, got passed by four guys. I rode the rest of the lap on my own. I think Scott Demel (Brooklyn Velo Force) won. The Moneygram guys hung around afterward and answered questions, gave out some prizes, and we watched the end of the other races. The whole thing was so much fun I was walking around in a great mood for the rest of the weekend. After that I knew I had to get a license and start racing, which I did that fall.
The always affable Mr. Howard.