Cal Cycling

Kick Off Meeting

jordankestler — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:19:47 +0000

Our start of semester meeting will be on Tuesday, January 24 at 7:00pm in 56 Barrows. There will be a presentation about the team and road racing for any new recruits. Even if you don’t need a review on how racing works, it would probably still be a good idea to come to meet with your team captain to discuss the season and regular training rides, and watch a silly PowerPoint. And we’ll have some free swag!

Home Race Recap & BIG RIDE with Stanford Cycling

jordankestler — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:31:42 +0000

For those that haven’t heard, we ended up second place in the Conference in the mountain bike season, with three omnium champions; Kyle Zampaglione (MC), Joanna Bechtel (WA), and Jessica Kuo (WB). Nice job! Also, Joanna was voted “Most Talented Women’s A” in the awards. Let’s keep this momentum up for the road season!

Speaking of road season, our first official road event is this Sunday.

The BIG GAME is this Saturday, which means the BIG RIDE is on Sunday. For those that don’t know, this is an annual tradition between us and that Jr. college in Palo Alto where we just hand out and ride together. It’s hosted by whoever’s hosting the BIG GAME, which means this year we are driving to Stanford. There will be a 30 mile option, a 60-70 mile option, an 80 mile option with some dirt, and a mountain bike option!

Although their school is vastly inferior to ours, their riding is comparable. They’ll have coffee and bagels available at 930am. Yes that’s right, FREE BAGELS AND COFFEE. They’ve been completely left out of the whole occupy movement, so let’s do them a favor and occupy their campus while we devour their bagels and coffee.

We will be meeting at West Circle at 815am on Sunday morning to carpool down to their campus with a small tower. Please sign up before Thursday night at 10pm. See you there!

Spreadsheet of Who’s Signed Up

See you this weekend!

UC Berkeley Race Updates

jordankestler — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:46:05 +0000

Here are a few last minute updates for our race:

Saturday Updates

Light rain is forecast for Friday, but we are keeping our schedule the same. XC is still on Saturday, and the DS is still on Sunday.
We reserved campsite E, not D.
XC Reg opens at 7am, not 630am

Sunday Updates

1 Qualifying run
Single run format for all categories until the round of 8. Then it will be double run time differential format.
Practice will open at 8am, not 10am.

All of these changes are reflected on the updated flier: Cal Cycling Classic MTB 2011

Home Race Update

jordankestler — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:18:56 +0000

As of right now, the weather looks like it will permit us to have our race as scheduled (Cross Country and Super D on Saturday and Dual Slalom and Short Track on Sunday). We will make the final decision on Wednesday night, and it will be posted right here.

Nationals Day 1

jordankestler — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:37:41 +0000

We arrived at Angel Fire Resort today to find…tons of snow! We pre-rode the [snowy] course, and it’s gonna be a muddy, cold, and icy race. Joanna, Sofia, and Katie start at 9am, and the forecast calls for 23 deg F. The men, Nitish and Jordan, are racing the cross country at 12noon. Chase, Jordan, and Nitish will race the downhill seeding run tomorrow at 3:45pm. We’ll update with results tomorrow. Go Bears!

Home Course Trail Work Day

jordankestler — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:36:51 +0000

Hey Everyone,

Chico was a huge success! We had awesome results, including Joanna winning WA’s; Scott winning MB’s; Kyle, Josh and Andrew placing 3rd, 4th, and 5th respectively; and Jessica winning WB’s! Killer job guys and girls!

In other news, our home race is coming up really fast on November 12-13, and we need to get our courses in prime racing condition! This Sunday, October 30, we are having a trail work day at Bailey Bike Park in Pittsburg. Please sign up by Wednesday at 10pm. The exact timing will be sent out later this week, but we will be back to Berkeley in the early afternoon. After doing the trail work, we get to ride the trails! Check out these sweeeetttt photos of our last work day. Bonus points if you come in costume!

Spreadsheet of Who’s Going

Chico Race

jordankestler — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:24:11 +0000

We had an awesome weekend at the Stanford Race. Our live results feed worked great, mostly because of all of the great results we got. Let’s keep the momentum going for the last race of the season Chico State. It’s this weekend Oct. 22 -23. We’re leaving Berkeley Friday night and spending Friday and Saturday night in Chico. Stay tuned for lodging info. Make sure to sign up Wednesday night before 10pm!

Spreadsheet of Who’s Sign Up

Flier

Stanford Race

jordankestler — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:05:58 +0000

We had a great time at Humboldt’s race this weekend. The weather was great, and they had some really sweet courses! This weekend the race is a little closer hosted be Stanford University. Since it’s close, we are driving down Saturday morning, racing, returning to Berkeley Saturday night, and driving back down on Sunday morning. The courses are really fun, so make sure to sign up by Wednesday night at 10pm!

Flyer

Spreadsheet of Who’s Going

Humboldt Race

jordankestler — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:25:01 +0000

We had a great showing at Parkfield, with a ton of podium finishes (including sweeping the Women’s A Short Track Podium). Nice job Sofia, Joanna, and Katie! Let’s keep up our streak of awesomeness and send a huge crew up to Humboldt. We’re staying in a host house, so please bring sleeping bags and over night stuff (not camping stuff). As usual, sign up by Wednesday at 10pm. See you at the race!

Flier

Spreadsheet of Who’s Going

Cal Poly SLO Race

calcycling — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:57:42 +0000

The mountain bike season is under way! With one race down its time to get signed up for the second. This weekend is Cal Poly SLO’s race at Parkfield! We will be heading down Friday the 30th, racing Saturday and Sunday, then returning to Berkeley Sunday evening. To sign up please fill out this Form by 10PM this Wednesday night. To see who’s coming you can check out this Spreadsheet.

Saturday night we will be cooking a pasta dinner as a team, so everyone needs to bring $3. We will also be camping under the stars this trip so bring a sleeping bag, sleeping pad and tent.

Here is a list of things that come in handy on a race weekend:

racing license or authorization to ride (click here for instructions)

bike
helmet
shoes
gloves
2 kits (if you have that many, and are going to do multiple races)
water
food (if you do the math, we are going for 3 meals Saturday (dinner as a team for $3!) and 3 Sunday, but your car may stop for dinner on the drive back up)
riding food (gels, gu, etc)
towel (for changing)
tube/multi-tool/handpump/patchkit (unless you want to walk miles and miles like Caleb that one year)
camelback/water bottle
cash ($$ for reg fees and gas)
sleeping bag/mat (if you have one)
tent (if you have one)

This is going to be a great weekend, so be sure to sign up. If you have any questions please contact me at ktclark09@gmail.com

See you on the trails!