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Announcement for 2005
It's official, now: my 12 year old daughter will train for the STP for 2005
and ride it with me. The first day will be ~108 miles to Chehalis, and then we'll do 100 the next day to bring us into Portland. This will be three weeks before she celebrates becoming bat mitzvah in August. Training begins in January. I'll keep you all posted. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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Claire Petersky wrote:
|| It's official, now: my 12 year old daughter will train for the STP || for 2005 and ride it with me. The first day will be ~108 miles to || Chehalis, and then we'll do 100 the next day to bring us into || Portland. This will be three weeks before she celebrates becoming || bat mitzvah in August. || || Training begins in January. I'll keep you all posted. || Cool. Back-to-back centuries for a 12 yo. I feel old.... |
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Claire Petersky wrote:
|| It's official, now: my 12 year old daughter will train for the STP || for 2005 and ride it with me. The first day will be ~108 miles to || Chehalis, and then we'll do 100 the next day to bring us into || Portland. This will be three weeks before she celebrates becoming || bat mitzvah in August. || || Training begins in January. I'll keep you all posted. || Cool. Back-to-back centuries for a 12 yo. I feel old.... |
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"Roger Zoul" wrote in message
... Claire Petersky wrote: || It's official, now: my 12 year old daughter will train for the STP || for 2005 and ride it with me. The first day will be ~108 miles to || Chehalis, and then we'll do 100 the next day to bring us into || Portland. This will be three weeks before she celebrates becoming || bat mitzvah in August. || || Training begins in January. I'll keep you all posted. || Cool. Back-to-back centuries for a 12 yo. I feel old.... You can't believe the number of pre-teens and teens that do the ride every year. Here's the article I wrote for our club advertising the rides I'm going to lead to get us all into shape: --- When I rode my first STP, I sat down for a spaghetti dinner in Chehalis Saturday night. Sitting across the folding table from me was a 12 year old girl with her parents. I found out that this was her third STP -- her first time on a single. Previously, she had been a stoker on her dad's tandem. I was impressed. Here, as an adult in my 30s, I had trained for months to be able to pull off this ride; here, a kid with still lots of growing to do, was in the middle of her third time. On every STP then and since, I am always amazed to see so many kids in the pre-teen and teen age group able to complete back-to-back centuries. Fast forward now about five years from that first STP. Along the way, our family has acquired a couple of used tandems from the Bike Ads on the Cascade Message Boards. My kid has become quite an efficient stoker -- steady, unflappable in traffic, and pretty much uncomplaining. We whip along city streets and rural highways for rides that are satisfying for the both of us. It's on one of those rides that my daughter declares that she would to ride STP with me for 2005. So, now it's the middle of winter, and I think it's time to start this training, in January 2005. As long as Rose and I are going to do the rides anyway, we might as well do them with Cascade. I led some kids' rides through summer 2004, but these will be different -- specifically set up to meet the needs of pre-teen and teen tandem teams. Our goal: to be able to dovetail into the regular Casacade STP/RSVP training rides this spring, and to be able to complete Flying Wheels and STP this summer. Unlike the usual kids' rides, we'll be moving at a faster: at the lower end of a Cascade club "moderate" pace. Unlike the usual adults' rides, we'll be taking more breaks to accomodate our kids' legs and stamina. These rides will be open to everyone, though, so if you're a beginning adult tandem team, or a single rider who might prefer the faster speed/more breaks pace, you are welcome to join in. Our plan is to have the rides be the second and fourth Saturdays, and the first and third Sundays of the month. This way, we can accomodate soccer practices, Sunday schools, and other family weekend obligations and tandem teams should still be able to get to at least two rides a month. Team members would be expected to get in additional rides so that they can meet the gradually-increasing difficulty and mileage of the rides. We'll need additional ride leaders, so if you're someone who is thinking of teaming up with your teen, or is someone who enjoys working with this age group, please contact me at ; or [insert name and contact info here] at Cascade. --- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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"Roger Zoul" wrote in message
... Claire Petersky wrote: || It's official, now: my 12 year old daughter will train for the STP || for 2005 and ride it with me. The first day will be ~108 miles to || Chehalis, and then we'll do 100 the next day to bring us into || Portland. This will be three weeks before she celebrates becoming || bat mitzvah in August. || || Training begins in January. I'll keep you all posted. || Cool. Back-to-back centuries for a 12 yo. I feel old.... You can't believe the number of pre-teens and teens that do the ride every year. Here's the article I wrote for our club advertising the rides I'm going to lead to get us all into shape: --- When I rode my first STP, I sat down for a spaghetti dinner in Chehalis Saturday night. Sitting across the folding table from me was a 12 year old girl with her parents. I found out that this was her third STP -- her first time on a single. Previously, she had been a stoker on her dad's tandem. I was impressed. Here, as an adult in my 30s, I had trained for months to be able to pull off this ride; here, a kid with still lots of growing to do, was in the middle of her third time. On every STP then and since, I am always amazed to see so many kids in the pre-teen and teen age group able to complete back-to-back centuries. Fast forward now about five years from that first STP. Along the way, our family has acquired a couple of used tandems from the Bike Ads on the Cascade Message Boards. My kid has become quite an efficient stoker -- steady, unflappable in traffic, and pretty much uncomplaining. We whip along city streets and rural highways for rides that are satisfying for the both of us. It's on one of those rides that my daughter declares that she would to ride STP with me for 2005. So, now it's the middle of winter, and I think it's time to start this training, in January 2005. As long as Rose and I are going to do the rides anyway, we might as well do them with Cascade. I led some kids' rides through summer 2004, but these will be different -- specifically set up to meet the needs of pre-teen and teen tandem teams. Our goal: to be able to dovetail into the regular Casacade STP/RSVP training rides this spring, and to be able to complete Flying Wheels and STP this summer. Unlike the usual kids' rides, we'll be moving at a faster: at the lower end of a Cascade club "moderate" pace. Unlike the usual adults' rides, we'll be taking more breaks to accomodate our kids' legs and stamina. These rides will be open to everyone, though, so if you're a beginning adult tandem team, or a single rider who might prefer the faster speed/more breaks pace, you are welcome to join in. Our plan is to have the rides be the second and fourth Saturdays, and the first and third Sundays of the month. This way, we can accomodate soccer practices, Sunday schools, and other family weekend obligations and tandem teams should still be able to get to at least two rides a month. Team members would be expected to get in additional rides so that they can meet the gradually-increasing difficulty and mileage of the rides. We'll need additional ride leaders, so if you're someone who is thinking of teaming up with your teen, or is someone who enjoys working with this age group, please contact me at ; or [insert name and contact info here] at Cascade. --- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:32:13 GMT,
et, "Claire Petersky" wrote: Training begins in January. I'll keep you all posted. She'll have a great trainer and a huge fan club cheering her on. -- zk |
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Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:32:13 GMT,
et, "Claire Petersky" wrote: Training begins in January. I'll keep you all posted. She'll have a great trainer and a huge fan club cheering her on. -- zk |
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Claire Petersky wrote: || It's official, now: my 12 year old daughter will train for the STP || for 2005 and ride it with me. The first day will be ~108 miles to || Chehalis, and then we'll do 100 the next day to bring us into || Portland. This will be three weeks before she celebrates becoming || bat mitzvah in August. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mazel Tov |
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Claire Petersky wrote: || It's official, now: my 12 year old daughter will train for the STP || for 2005 and ride it with me. The first day will be ~108 miles to || Chehalis, and then we'll do 100 the next day to bring us into || Portland. This will be three weeks before she celebrates becoming || bat mitzvah in August. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mazel Tov |
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Your 12 year old is training for such a long ride? That's wonderful. I
am training for a 25 mile ride on my birthday. I will think of your daughter as I am training for my 25 mile ride for MS. With the weather in Jersey, it seems the only training I get lately is at the gym. I hope the spin classes help me gain strength. I really want to get outside and start testing my endurance. Riding a stationary bike is probably quite different from riding 25 miles outside. Hopefully I will get the chance to get outside. If it ever stops raining. :-) Good Luck. Maggie |
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