Each year, our very own Rachel Weaver puts together a master calendar of all the regional races put on by each of the regional cyclocross series promoters. Organized sequentially, it’s really easy to use her master calendar to plan your cyclocross season.

Here’s a link to the Cyclocross Calendar that every Pittsburgh ‘crosser needs to know about:
Rachel’s Cyclocross Calendar

Hey Ladies,

Velo Femme is hosting a women’s skills session tonight at 6:30PM at the Bud Harris Oval on Washington Blvd.

Michael, EJ & Donna will guide you through some skills drills and track work customized to the level of whoever shows up this evening. We won’t ask you to do anything you don’t feel comfortable with, but we may challenge you a little to try some new things on the bike!  It will be fun!!

Everyone will need to fill out a waiver, even if you did so at the womens clinic this Spring (if you recall we only had one waiver and everyone signed the back). You only  need to do this once for any Steel City Endurance event, and it’s good forever (I think).

Hope you can join us!

Suzanne

After one of the snowiest months on record in February, finally we have some consistent temperatures above freezing, and with snow melt comes clear roads and plans to ride outside!

EJ is organizing a team ride this Sunday out of North Park, Stone Field Parking Lot, 11AM. Come join in for a 3+ hour spin! Time to take the road bike off the trainer, layer up, and hit the roads!

Predicted High: 40 degrees F

Yo team, it’s time to pull on your yellow team kits, because EJ is leading a Team Ride out of North Park at 10:00 AM this Sunday, November 8. Meet at the Stone Field lot at 10:00AM. He says “easy pace.”

Hey Women, want to experience the camaraderie adn fun of riding with a women’s cycling team? Come join Brodie and the new Team HVT on a ride this Sunday:

(From Brodie): There will be a ride, leaving @ 1030am from the Wm. Pitt Union on 5th Ave in Oakland. I am going to run this ride in conjunction with the Univ. or Pitt Cycling Club/Team ride.

The pace will be easy, and I am planning on the route going out Allegheny River Blvd. to the Holton bridge, then down towards Tarentum, PA and back. The ride will be open to everyone, It will be a no-drop (no one left behind). I expect the ride to last 2 hrs in length.  We will get back into the Oakland/Shadyside area early enough for individuals to change, eat, etc.

Terrain will be mostly flat, with a few moderate climbs at the end to get back into Shadyside. I am looking to also have a shorter/beginners ride AFTER the meeting, Heading out from the Coffee Tree Shadyside around 3pm, and heading out for a loop up and around to Highland Park Reservior and back (Beechwood Blvd. is also an option).

Rain MAY cancel the ride, dependent on air temp. I will post that by 830am on sunday on the PGH Womens Racing Page, as well as the ACA page.

If you have any questions/ comments/ concerns, please feel free to contact me at this email address, or 412-606-4025.

Hope to see everyone on Sunday!

Menachem Brodie

Coach, Human Vortex Training LLC.

USA Cycling Coach, NSCA-CSCS

Goals are Dreams given life by dedication, persistence, focus, proper form, detailed plan of achievement and attention to details. Live it. Love it. Be it.

Hey, if you’re up for a road ride in between Cyclocross practice and ‘Cross races, EJ is organizing a “social ride” out of North Park on Saturday, October 3 at 9AM. The plan is to ride to the Starbucks in Cranberry and back. Meet at Stone Field at 9AM.

Questions/RSVP – Please email EJ

Good luck to those racing on Sunday!

September is perfect time to work on cornering and some skills. Many people are hitting the cyclocross clinics, but there were lots of requests for cornering drills to take our races from the oval to 4-corner crits next year. So Coach Suzanne is going to cover some drills in a one hour session at the Oval on September 13 and in a couple of weeks.

Time: 1PM – late enough to let people race Strongland, ride their morning rides, or whatever!

Details from Coach Suzanne: I’ll cover the same stuff in both sessions because practice makes perfect. I’ll talk about balance and weight shifting on your bike, lifting the front and back wheels, bunny hopping, proper brake usage including how the front brake REALLY works, and finally cornering which requires proper understanding and confidence in balance, center of gravity and proper use of brakes to do it safely and with speed and confidence.

A weekend without racing means a chance for a couple of relaxed rides here at home! Hope you can join us!

Saturday, 8/22 - City Ride out of Square Cafe, Regent Square around 10:15AM – email Patty if interested

UPDATE: SAT CITY RIDE CANCELED DUE TO RUN AROUND THE SQUARE

- “Doug Ride” out of Penn Hills, 8 or 9AM – email Doug if interested

Sunday 8/23 – Heidelburg ride, no-drop pace, leaving Collier Town Square Starbucks at 10:00AM – email Patty if interested

Rachel is leading an easy pre-race ride this Saturday, August 8.

Meet at 11:00 am, Stone Field. Plan to do easy laps around North Park.