Beach Cities Cycling Club Weekly Newsletter
(December 29, 2009 & Happy New Year!)

- WEEKEND
HIGHLIGHTS -

Saturday’s ride; nice turnout for the 50 miler flat ride, thanks for joining!!

Sunday’s ride; very social and a nice day, thanks for bring there!

Also, good turnout for both Christmas eve rides which all enjoyed before the festivities!

Welcome Jose Fiallos our newest BCCClub members (#140)!

- UPCOMING ACTIVITIES -

Ride schedule, go to: http://www.bccclub.org/Calendar.html -  

Dec 31, Thursday, New Years eve ride starting at 8:30 from the Neptune’s Fountain (Malaga Cove plaza) Rudy and Scott will be leading this energetic and hilly ride!

Jan 02, Saturday, starts at 8:00 from the Catalina Coffee Company to Mandeville Canyon, this is an intermediate 50 ride.

Jan 03, Sunday Fun Ride starts at 9:00 from the Catalina Coffee Company for a 20+ mile ride for beginner to low-intermediate riders

We are canceling the Wednesday ride for this week only, join us for the Thursday ride (noted) above.

Note: Make sure you bring water and snacks for the longer rides and the BCCClub rides year-round and rides seldom get canceled due to bad weather. But, a good way to determine if the ride is “on or off” is, if it’s raining or if the streets have puddles from the night before, than the ride is off. Also, it’s always a good idea to check the weather forecast before the ride and dress appropriately!

-IN THIS ISSUE – (details below)

* Best Buddies kick-off & vacation planning party at Debbie & Jim’s home * The newly designed club jerseys are available, let me know if you need anything * Support our sponsors; PV Bicycle Center, ProWellness, Dr Mosig/Lukasik, DDS, CB Loans, Leap & Bound Academy, Advanced Vein Center and U-CA-TAN * Considering joining one or both of the 2010 Best Buddies (B-4) teams * See Ed’s Mobile Bicycle Repair and Randy’s Webmaster messages * We are looking for good used bikes.

Three (3) must see videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7M-_ueoU2E - http://www.youtube.com/user/sfbikeorg#p/u/22/QdSCLngcEX8 - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=179431111027&oid=195557563981

The South Bay Bicycle Coalition will meet on Weds January 13th, 2010. With their guest speaker, Redondo Beach Councilman Steve Diels will be attending to speak about Redondo's experiences on bike issues and his vision for transit and bicycles in the future….I hope to see you there!

South Bay Bicycle Coalition Daily Breeze article: http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_15980/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=DchWTJbU and this is just the beginning!

- From ED'S Mobile Bicycle Repair –
- Tip of the week -

Do I really need to do intervals to get faster?

Brute strength can get you over the first climb and close gaps for the first 45 minutes of a race, but after that, it is the condition of your cardiovascular system that determines your fate.
Road riding is about sustained efforts at near-maximum output and about how fast your body can recover. Both of these situations are maximized by interval training. You will ride like you train. As much as intervals hurt, as ill as you feel as you struggle to recover from each successive effort, this will be the measure of pain and suffering that you will be able to inflict upon your rivals come race day or the next club ride.
Think about intervals as storing suffering in a can—the more you store, the more whoop you'll have later to dump on your rivals.

- From the Webmaster -

you take any pictures at any BCCClub rides or events, please send them to the Webmaster. We can’t post all of them, but we will try and post some. If you upload your BCCClub photos to a web site, we can link our photo web page to your pictures. Send you photo website link to the Webmaster. Maybe a BCCClub photographer snapped your picture ! Click me for a look at the Photo Page.

Here is this week's Featured Link from the BCCClub Website
Basic Pace Line Safety
Refresh your riding knowledge about a pace line.