CYCLING B.C. JUNIORS TAKE PODIUM at Both Jim Horner Cross Grand Prix and ANNOUNCEMENTS Canadian National Championships

CYCLING B.C. JUNIORS TAKE PODIUM At both Jim Horner Cross Grand Prix and ANNOUNCEMENTS Canadian National Championships

Cycling B.C. announces the 2009 Youth Team

Cycling BC... Is proud to present the ﬁrst annual Cycling BC Coaches Conference on November 22, 2008. The conference will welcome coaches from across the province and throughout the Paciﬁc Northwest.

Cycling B.C. Awards Night Come congratulate the athletes on their successes from the season.

Saturday, November 15th 2008

5:00- 6:30 Youth and Junior Awards

6:30 Cycling B.C. Annual Awards and Kevin Thorpe, Evan Guthrie and Sebastian Sleep at the Jim Horner Cross Grand Prix Dinner

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Evan Guthrie the 2008 Junior Men Cross- National Champion YOUTH TEAM BMX TEAM ROAD & TRACK TEAM

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CYCLING B.C. TRAINING CAMP IN WHISTLER Whistler Mountain, speciﬁcally Canadian Sport Center Paciﬁc hosted the most recent Team BC Training Camp on October 24-26.

12 of the Provinces best junior and u-17 MTB racers were in attendance for a weekend that was literally jam-packed with activity!

The team arrived on Friday afternoon and got right into it with a short spin on Whistler Mountain to check out a few bike park trails and take an up close look at the infamous Whistler Mountain Rat. After the ride and a quick dinner out then the gang was eager to get to bed in anticipation of the big day planned for Saturday.

Saturday was deﬁnitely the big day. The day started with an extensive training session at the Canadian Sport Center gym that included instruction on weight training, some dynamic core training using exercise balls and a bit on stretching and injury prevention. Presenting was Diana Rochon of Canadian Sport Center Paciﬁc, Heather King, our own Team BC Physiotherapist from Activelife Physio and Team BC Coach Steve Lund. Following the gym sessions, riders grabbed a quick lunch then headed out for the afternoon cross training session....2.5 hours hiking the Rainbow Lake trail, a grueling uphill hike (with a fair bit of run thrown in for good measure) that took riders all the way up to the snow...and back down again.

Riders were treated to an informative Nutrition seminar on Saturday evening by Tracy Higgs from On the Move Holistic Health and Nutrition as well as chatting about training and Team BC plans for 2009-2010.... it was a very full day!

Sunday the riders were back in the gym for a session on proper squat and dead lift technique from expert Olympic Weightlifting coach Jason Fridrik. The gym sessions were extremely beneficial, as the riders were not only shown how to do some great exercises for increasing their specific MTB strength, but also how to do them properly and safely. (Including the proper way to spot, which of course was done in fine team fashion, see photo)

This very informative session was followed by another spectacular ride on the trails of Whistler where riders got to spin the legs after a morning of weights and challenge their skills on some of the CONTACT DETAILS great MTB trails. Please email [email protected] if you Next up, a winter of training, perhaps to include some warm weather camps, to be followed by a would like to be taken off the mailing list for spring endurance camp and another great season of racing! the Provincial Team Update.

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Cycling B.C. had a very strong and consistent Junior Cross team to compete in both the Canadian Cross Nationals and the Jim Horner Cross Championships. After two very exciting races B.C. proved that they were on top again. Evan Guthrie came away the Canadian Junior Cross Champion. Here is what Evan and Kevin have to say about the race.

“At 2:00 the gun went off and the 2008 Cyclo-Cross National Championships were underway. From the gun one of the Quebec rider’s set a blistering pace. BC’s Nick Holatko was right up front with the leaders. Holatko was riding great until an Alberta rider took him out and they hit the ground hard. After this kind of crash it is hard to try and chase the leaders down by yourself into headwinds. Kevin Thorpe (BC), Sebastian Sleep (BC), Kris Dahl (AB), Stewart Wight (NB) and myself got a comfortable gap on the rest of the field by the halfway point in the first lap. Sleep had a crash, which put him back about 10 sec. He chased hard, but it was into a headwind. Thorpe and myself were taking hard long pulls in the next few laps to try and shake Wight and Dahl. With 3 laps to go Wight wasn’t able to hold onto the pace. It was now down to my teammate Thorpe, myself and Alberta’s Kris Dahl, who was riding strong. Dahl was trying to conserve energy as Thorpe and I did most of the work. We weren’t able to drop Dahl. So this meant last minute decisions to try and break away. I was able to attack on the one of the run ups, which was the right choice. I was able to maintain a small lead over Dahl and Thorpe to ride in for the National Title. Dahl just edged out BC rider Kevin Thorpe. Sebastian Sleep rode in for a secured 5th place finish.”

-Evan Guthrie

B.C. Juniors Leading the Pack “It was a fast start until after a lap, there was already a 5 man group secured with over a minute lead on the pack. It consisted of Evan Guthrie, Sebastian Sleep, Kris Dahl (AB), Stuart Wight (NB) and myself. Unfortunately Sebastian crashed leaving 4 left in the group, and a lap later Stuart was dropped leaving 2 BC guys against one Alberta rider. Evan secured the National Title, with Kris Dahl taking the silver and me not being able to catch Kris, taking the Bronze. Sebastian came in for 5th and Nick Holatko racing a strong race.”

-Kevin Thorpe

Kris Dahl (AB), Evan Guthrie (B.C.) and Kevin Thorpe (B.C.)

Evan Guthrie (B.C.), Wendy Simms (B.C.), Geoff Kabush (B.C.) and Mike Bidniak (AB) Nick Holatko, Sebastian Sleep, Kevin Thorpe and Evan Guthrie at the Canadian National Championships in Edmonton, Alberta CYCLING B.C.’S CANADA SUMMER GAMES TRAINING CAMP With Cycling B.C.’s coaches, Richard Wools and Steve Lund NEWS! B.C.’s young athletes met at PISE, a top new training facility in Vic- toria, B.C. over the October 17-19 weekend. Here is what some of the athletes had to say about the weekend.

British Columbia’s top young cyclists got together with Cycling BC staff Richard Wooles and Steve CYCLING B.C. Lund over the October 17-19 weekend to make the ﬁrst steps towards BC success at the 2009 Can- PRESENTS the 2009 ada Summer Games. The weekend included various ﬁtness testing sessions, physical assessments, and seminars with a top nutritionist and sports psychologist, as well as a two hour yoga session which YOUTH TEAM saw more than one of the cyclists wincing in a spot of discomfort.

It was a blast for all of us cyclist to get back together after a few months apart since the racing season closed down, nevertheless a lot of time was spend Building on the success of last pouring sweat and living in the pain-cave, but it was season’s Youth Team program all in effort for the beginning stages of selecting the and the BC Summer Games, we provincial team for the Summer Games. Coming off are proud to announce the 2009 a stong season for BC, all the cyclists showed great improvements since the last testing session in Cycling BC Provincial Youth Team. February. For all of us it is exciting and satisfying to Riders qualified for the team by see the numbers from the tests, it is solid proof of the demonstrating outstanding talent benefits smart hours in the saddle and a committment and positive attitude toward the to the cycling lifestyle. sport during talent identification Looking ahead to the Canada Summer Games, all the events held throughout the past athletes are excited and striving to make the team, for season. The riders listed below the Games are sure to be a great experience in a multi-sport competition community, as well as be- have been included in a talent ing located in Prince Edward Island - somewhere few of the cyclists have been. The cyclists from BC identification program that will are proving to be a great talent pool, and with the assistance from Cycling BC, Team BC, coaching staff, and the great facilities here in BC, the Summer Games are sure to be a great success for British eventually help them to qualify for Columbia. Using events such as BC Games, Western Canada Games, and now the Canada Games the Provincial team which to act as stepping-stones in competition, all of us from BC hope that at least some of us will eventually represents the province at be able to represent Canada at the World Championships and Olympic Games of the future. prestigious competitions like the -Owen Harrison National Championships and Canada Games. In the next 12 months these riders will be given 1st ANNUAL CYCLING B.C. COACHING CONFERENCE 2009 opportunities to attend training camps and participate in cycling Cycling BC is proud to present the first annual Cycling BC Coaches Conference on November 22, 2008. The conference will welcome coaches from across the province and throughout the Pacific competitions designed to build their Northwest. The aim of the conference is to provide coaches with a forum to discuss topics relevant to expertise in the sport across the performance and development of the sport. disciplines of road, track and The theme of this year’s conference is: Innovative Coaching: New Approaches to Cycling Success mountain bike racing. BMX athletes will also be part of the Program action! 10:00-10:15 Introduction and Sign In. 10:15-11:00 Richard Wooles: The Cycling BC athlete development model 11:00-11:15 Break 11:15-12:00 Kurt Innes: Building comprehensive training programs to maximize athlete potential. 12:00-12:30 Discussion and Lunch 12:30-1:15 Dan Proulx: Developing cyclists from regional level to Olympian. 1:15-2:00 Steve Lund: Technical aspects in sport performance 2:00-2:15 Break 2:15-3:00 Richard Wooles: Experience inside the British cycling system. 3:00-4:00 Cycling BC Youth Team Planning - A sustainable future for cycling in British Columbia.

Location: Canada Room at Mountain Equipment Co-op in Vancouver. 130 West Broadway, Vancouver

Cost: Admission is free to Cycling BC license holders. All others will be charged $10.00 at the door. Proceeds from the conference will go to the Cycling BC Junior Team. Maximum of 100 seats avail- able