Western Pennsylvania Wheelmen

For those of you that don’t have a team home for the MS150, we’ve created a Wheelmen team for this year’s ride. We’ll have a few training rides before the MS ride and perhaps even a couple other ‘team building’ events. Feel free to join the team at http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Bike/PAXBikeEvents/1794473770?pg=team&fr_id=18172&team_id=277781 and keep an eye on the calendar for charity ride training events.

Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Southside Works Cinema. Tickets are $11 in advance at www.imathlete.com/events/bicycledreams or $15 at the door the night of the show. This event is sponsored as a benefit by Bike PGH and co-sponsored by the OTB Bicycle Cafe. For more information, email gharrington3165@hotmail.com. For information about Race Across America, go to www.raceacrossamerica.org.

When: January 1st

Where: REI Southside Works

What time: 11 a.m.

REI Southside will again be our sponsor with coffee, hot chocolate, tea and cookies the morning of the ride to help get the ride off in its 4th decade. REI will open at 10:30 a.m. to accommodate those who have last minute ride shopping needs.

The ride will leave REI at 11 a.m. Parents and small kids can head across Hot Metal Street on the South Side Trail while big people can cross the Hot Metal Bridge and head towards town. The ride will cross the Ft Duquesne Bridge and up the trail to the 16th Street Bridge. From there its down Penn to Smithfield St Bridge and over to the South Side Trail back to REI.

Ride goes no matter what the weather.

Helmets are mandatory.

For more information contact Marc Yergin 412-559-0054

Due to an oversight, the WPW’s Post Office Box was out of service briefly this month but is now available. If your renewal or new membership form was returned, please resubmit it. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

We will be performing some maintenance on the website this weekend. While it is not expected to take long, it’s possible that you may visit the site while the maintenance is in progress and may see unexpected behavior. We appreciate your patience while the maintenance is in progress.

WPW:

Come out and support the club as we do our annual business.  We still need a nomination for Vice President.

Location: Settlers Ridge REI Store, 600 Settlers Ridge Center Drive, Pittsburgh, PA  15205

SLATE:

Officers (and their key volunteer duties today)
President           Jim Logan      (Regional Brevet Coordinator)
Vice President  <nominations still open or from the floor>
Treasurer          Lyle Seaman    (Pittsburgh Ride of Silence Coordinator)
Secretary          Christian Korey

Returning Board Members (and their key volunteer duties today)
Kurt Vazquez   (Legal & club legacy)
Al Gaburri     (Fall Rally 2012)
Mark Bedel     (Club Time Trials)
Fred Klem?     (Club ambassador to other organizations)

New Board Members (and their key volunteer duties today)
Lance Kennelty  (Cranberry area ride coordination)
Bruce Woods     (Ride Committee Chair?)
Bryan Schmersal (Webmaster)
Bob Kerr        (“Away team” – Plan 1 or 2 “destination rides” for the club)

Other Key Volunteers
Dave Bialosky    (Membership Secretary)
TBD              Outreach – Whether social media or good old fashioned fliers in bike shops

There have been quite a few bogus users created on the site lately by scripts and/or people that are looking to use the site as a source for generating spam. Until a mechanism to inhibit these bogus accounts is put into place, new user registrations on the site have been disabled. I’m hopeful that a simple upgrade to the latest website software will take care of the problem and we’ll be back to normal shortly.

Thank you for your patience.

Mark Bedel has prepared a series of articles to keep you in shape both on and off season. You can access these articles by navigating to Rides->Training and then the article or by clicking on one of the following links:

• Are You Ready for Your Big Ride?
• Get the Most from Indoor Trainer Sessions
• Heavy Cyclists Can Climb!
• Off Season Training
• Overcoming the Burn While Climbing
• Reaching those Goals this Summer
• Remember to Recover!
• Using Intervals to Target VO2max Adaptations
• What is the Best Cadence?

These articles will keep you cycling your best.

See you on the road!

As you may or may not know, WPW provides sponsorship for Team Citius. You can check out a video of the team in action at http://animoto.com/play/2MNYNH60dkVvEkihdaylvQ