AACC News

Time Trial is on Tonight

2010-04-22T15:54:00.000-07:00

Hi Race Fans,
It seems the roads are dry enough to race tonight.
This will really show the neighbors how dedicated bike riders are?
I will have cocoa and coffee to help warm you up.
See you in a few hours.
Di

Monitor and Ebbets As of 12 April

2010-04-12T11:17:00.000-07:00

FYI From our Friend Mark Dieter
- Ebbetts is plowed only to 6.48-miles from the Wolf Creek gate. It ends
at that point with a solid 5-ft snow bank.
Monitor is great - just be careful on the descent. There's lots of rocks
and sand.

Spring Party This Monday!

2010-04-11T23:05:00.001-07:00

Don't forget to come to the spring party! 6 PM at the CVIC Hall in Minden!

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Mel Maalouf
www.altaalpina.com

now lets try a picture uploaded to multiple thingies.

2010-03-29T22:44:00.001-07:00

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Mel Maalouf
Alta Alpina Junior Cycling Team Coach
USA Cycling Expert Coach
1609 Olua St.
Minden, NV 89423
+1 775 782 9652
alpinajr@gmail.com
www.altaalpina.com

Reposting test via email

2010-02-08T21:36:00.001-08:00

via email.

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Mel Maalouf
Alta Alpina Junior Cycling Team Coach
USA Cycling Expert Coach
1609 Olua St.
Minden, NV 89423
+1 775 782 9652
alpinajr@gmail.com
www.altaalpina.com

hard code blog post from blogger

2010-01-13T22:27:00.000-08:00

tesing this out too.

Does This Blog still Work

2010-01-13T22:18:00.001-08:00

Trying out the email post of the newly posted blog.

Check back for the board meeting notes and other news!

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Mel Maalouf
Alta Alpina Junior Cycling Team Coach
USA Cycling Expert Coach
1609 Olua St.
Minden, NV 89423
+1 775 782 9652
alpinajr@gmail.com
www.altaalpina.com

FW: [renowheelmen] UNR medal haul from nationals.

2009-10-19T11:08:00.001-07:00

This is what our sponsorship goes for...

Good Job Blue!

From: renowheelmen@yahoogroups.com [mailto:renowheelmen@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Matt Mansur
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 10:49 AM
To: nevadacycling@yahoogroups.com; renowheelmen@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [renowheelmen] UNR medal haul from nationals.

Great job on the medal haul from Collegiate MTB Nationals
One Gold
3 Silvers
2 Bronze
6 Podium appearances
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/us-collegiate-mountain-bike-national-championships-cn

The Race went smoothly and safely and the near perfect weather made it a
great race weekend.

Matt Mansur

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Genoa no Wait Kirkwood Cyclocross!

2009-10-08T19:39:00.001-07:00

The Sagebrush cross for Kirkwood this saturday 10 October will be epic! The mountain air, cool temperatures, cool prizes (maybe a Kona Frame too) as well as a course that runs up stairs and goes through the Kwood village will prove for a super duper race. See you there.

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Mel Maalouf
Alta Alpina Junior Cycling Team Coach
USA Cycling Expert Coach
1609 Olua St.
Minden, NV 89423
+1 775 782 9652
alpinajr@gmail.com
www.altaalpina.com

Alta Alpina Comstock Century Ride Sunday 9/6

2009-09-07T09:49:00.000-07:00

I am always reminded of Bonanza and the Cartwrights when I ride this as it traverses most of the mythical Ponderosa Ranch and surrounds. Met up with Bob, Christine, and Rick in Genoa. Jack, Kerri and Kevin left earlier. Clear Creek provides a quiet way to get about 1000 ft up Spooner Summit without the traffic of Hwy 50. Some locals want to close it to any traffic cutting off access to hiking and Hwy 50. Hope they fail.

Near Sand harbor we caught Jack. Big winds today made for a choppy Lake Tahoe.

The winds were favorable on all three climbs. Bob, Christine and Rick atop Mt. Rose Summit. I was a bit if a slug today.

.....and the 4300 foot descent in the big wind down to sout Reno.

We never saw Kerri and Kevin. They turned south into the Big Wind through Washoe Valley as did Rick and Jack due to time constraints.

So up Geiger we went, me in tow.

Fortunately, Bob had a flat and the winds were favorable for the climb so I slowly wandered up on my own...they almost caught me at the top even with a flat.... :)

Looking back over to Mt. Rose Summit.

After the hive of Scum and Villainy that is Virgina City where the Cartwright Boys always seemed to get into a little trouble, things got serious with the wind. Bob did all the work back to Jacks Valley where we had a nice quartering tail wind to Genoa.

Great ride. Thanks Bob and Christine for the Big Tow! ...and good luck at the Everest Challenge next week.

Alta Alpina Morman Emigrant/Capps Crossing Century Ride 8/30

2009-09-01T13:21:00.000-07:00

Why do we have this affliction for turning a hard Metric into a harder Century all the time? It's all Steve's fault. :)

A few of us decided to start at the top of Carson Pass and meet the others 17 miles away at the old Iron Mtn Ski area...even before that it was called Peddler Hill.

Heading up Carson Spur from Kirkwood.

After meeting up we had 18 miles of downhill at 35-45 mph....Oh Yeah! Happy Faces on that one. Tom, just behind Ellen.....all Tom did yesterday was 100+ miles and 10,000+ ft of climbing.

Now we have 7000 feet of up and down climbing on shaded, narrow forest roads.....

So here we are...all the guys, ages 12 to 60, waiting at the top of one of the many climbs while Ellen and Jennie fix a flat below.....nice chivalrous guys.....Trevor, Steve, Credence, Rick, Raz, Steve, and Robert. Well, at least Tom went back to help.

Lunch at Capps Crossing.....the only place for water in 45 miles.

At one point we noted that we had ridden for almost 2 hours without seeing a vehicle.

What a great Alta Alpina ride. It has been called Tony's Tough Ride, Mormon Emigrant Loop, Capps Crossing and likely some names I can't repeat here.

Heading back on 88, Rick, Raz, and Robert....Thunder Mountain......

......Ellen and Jennie pulled us guys over Carson spur to Kirkwood Ski Area......

.....and the final insult back up to Carson pass with Rick.....

Thanks Jennie for leading this great club ride.

Alta Alpina Gold Lakes/Yuba Pass Ride 8/22

2009-08-25T07:17:00.000-07:00

Sierra Valley and surrounds is home to the Plumas Sierra Bicycle Club and they have a great area of mountains, canyons and valleys to ride in with good roads and little traffic.

Alta Alpina friends...Chris, Laura, Tim, Jennie, Tony and Rick on the way up Yuba Pass. Five or so miles of moderate climbing...I think two cars went by us.

The Sierra Buttes/Gold Lakes area is great Northern Sierra riding and hiking. No cars passed us on the long descent....where is everyone, it's Saturday!

Tony, Rick, and Lauren heading up over Gold Lakes Summit...no traffic...where is everyone?

So many miles of great riding here with so little traffic. Sure wish the local club could re-start the Sierraville Century again. Rick along the upper Feather River.

Time has stood still a bit here, the ATM of the 1940's I guess and home of the world famous Sattley Time Trial.

A great day riding with friends in a beautiful area despite some wind at the end.

Ahhh...some local humor too...gotta love it.

Thanks to Tim Rowe for leading this awesome ride.

19 Aug Article

2009-08-19T22:08:00.001-07:00

Joey, here is the latest. IMG is Nina Maalouf in Duck Creek Utah and IMG00426 is Gabriel Maalouf in Bootleg Canyon, Boulder City, NV

I just got back from vacation with my kids. It was just me and my 4 oldest kids, so vacation didn't mean any riding time. Many times when training, it is good to take a break. Although I don't train enough to need to take an extended break from training, many high level athletes do need a break. The cycling season can last year round when considering road and mtb racing start in February and mtb and cyclocross racing can last through the fall and winter. It is important to remember that training in any sport, you don't get stronger from hard workouts and hard training blocks. An athlete gets stronger while recovering from hard workouts and training blocks. It is this recovery period that is all important that many people don't realize. Of course athletes need to have frequent enough hard workouts from which to recover, that is to say that just recovering from easy workouts won't get the results desired. Not recovering from successive hard workouts will make the athlete fatigued mentally and physically which is called overreaching. If this lack of recovery is carried out for extended periods of time, like on the order of months, overtraining can result. Overtraining can also take months from which to recover and may ruin a whole season. Performance degrades no matter how much recovery is experienced, essentially this is the point of no return (at least for a while).

When taking some time off from training, performance does degrade somewhat, but often it refreshes the body for a new block of hard training. Taking time off from intense training does not necessarily mean that an athlete should do nothing. Hikes, swimming, riding the bike to the ice cream store are great ways to keep active when taking a break. A lot of sports have seasons, like cross country or soccer in the fall and that is it. This means the athletes can recover from injuries, physiologically and psychologically while doing other sports or other activities, even getting a job to fund the things we need for the next season.

So to finish where I started, I was on vacation for a week and did very little riding. It was nice to be around my family and get all my kids' cousins (12 in total) together in Duck Creek, Utah and Las Vegas. There was great riding in both places. Although I wasn't able to ride in Duck Creek, by my sister and brother did. I was able to get out early for a ride in Las Vegas and somewhat beat the heat. It was about 95 deg F when we finished, but when riding in the heat, usually it is sufficient to stay hydrated (about 1 liter/quart an hour) and let the air from riding keep you cool via evaporative cooling, like a swamp cooler. It is nice to know that wherever one travels, it is easy to find good mountain biking and road riding. I think people find road routes that are nice rides and mountain bikers build great trails no matter where one is because riding bikes appeals to so many people.

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Mel Maalouf
Alta Alpina Junior Cycling Team Coach
www.altaalpina.com

Posting via email

2009-08-17T19:30:00.001-07:00

This is how we post via email.

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Mel Maalouf
Alta Alpina Junior Cycling Team Coach
USA Cycling Expert Coach
www.altaalpina.com

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help

2009-07-15T23:58:00.000-07:00

The Carson Valley Classic is on schedule to happen 25 and 26 July which is comprised of the Diamond Valley Road Race and the Minden Criterium. 25 July is the Diamond Valley Road Race which starts at Diamond Valley School in Alpine County and goes to Hwy 89 to Hwy 88, then on to one of my favorite roads to ride in the world: Carson River Road. The course makes a right onto Diamond Valley Road back to the school. Carson River road is one of my favorites since it has nice turns, climbs (or descends) gently. CRR seems to wholely represent the Eastern Sierra, with a small river, dry air, sagebrush mixed with alpine trees, cow pastures, tiny creeks, which makes for beautiful scenery. This is a tough race since it serves as the Master's District Championships. The loops are 11 miles long with over 800 feet of climbing per lap. Groups do anywhere from 44 to 66 miles. Many Masters racers are either ex professionals or some are still riding professionals. The competition is very intense and the caliber of riders ensures the racing is fast and exciting. Sunday 26 July is the Minden Criterium which is the most exhilarating. The course runs around Minden Park and the Courthouse. The fastest groups will average more than 27 mph, and this is on a course that has 6 turns in 0.8 miles. This race is best described as fast and furious since there are lots of attacks, accelerations etc. and most races end up in a brutal mass sprint for the line. This will bring the excitement like we see for the Tour de France right here to Minden. While the sprints are not as fast and the distance is not as long, the speeds and power are still impressive. Races happen all day long with many different categories for women and men, so if you have the opportunity, you might make your way downtown Minden to check it out.

Personally, I have been taking riding a little more casually. The local club race series is really fun and keep competitive juices flowing. The masters race will also give me a chance to try to hang on to riders who race most weekends. However I have been enjoying some new mountain bike rides in the Tahoe basin. During a vacation at Lake Tahoe for my wife's birthday, she permitted me to get some rides in with my visiting brother from Las Vegas and sister from San Diego. The mountain bike riding in this area is so fun and rivals riding anywhere in the world. I tried out two new trails and was challenged on both. The technical aspects of the local trails can challenge riders of any level. I seemed to crash a couple of times, going uphill... It is quite odd to crash while going slow uphill, but I will say they were technical sections with stairs and tall rocks. I would rather fall going uphill than downhill though since the speeds are much slower... The recent rains in June have left the Sierras green and filled with flowers, which is quite different from the dry smoke filled skies that normally greet the area this time of year. If you haven't been out riding or hiking this year up there, it is time to head out before the 90+ degree weather dries out the mountains.

Record Courier Article:

The junior team continues to grow. This week we had two riders turn out for the first time. One rider is an accomplished MotoX rider who joins us from Reno. The other is a young BMX rider who is nationally ranked. XC runners, triathletes, MotoX, and BMXers are seeing the benefits of riding over the summer to maintain fitness for their fall sports. I am hoping to build a team that will be ready for the final Junior Team trip to the San Jose Velodrome and some Bay Area riding to cap off the season

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help

2009-06-24T23:36:00.000-07:00

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help
Alta Alpina Challenge: Build Your Own Challenge 13 June 2009.

The innagural Alta Alpina Challenge was put on by the Alta Alpina Cycling Club on Saturday 13 June. This ride was developed to provide a new venue for riders to build their own challenge whether it be a 7 mile ride for new riders or kids, or the full Kid Carson Challenge of 27 miles intended for beginning riders or riders who want to bring their kids. Many parents brought kids in trailers to give their youngest children the thrill of riding in our Sierras. For more ambitious riders, options of riding 1 to 8 passes were offered on the menu. This is a ride put on by riders who have experience with developing the Death Ride for many years to what it is today for riders who want something fresh and new. This ride was put on with the great help of many volunteers from many groups, the largest group was the Hung-a-Lel-Ti Washoe community. Many thanks are due to these groups. This ride started what we hope is a great relationship between the club and the local tribe. Many riders ride on Diamond Valley Road and Carson River Road as beautiful and almost traffic free roads. The club uses the roads for our club road races, club rides and even the Carson Valley Classic: the District Championship Road Race in late July. The club put on 4 training rides for the tribe's youth to get familiar with riding the Kid Carson. Our Washoe neighbors staffed the whole 27 mile Kid Carson loop. All of the comments received for the support on this loop were extremely appreciative. In addition, these volunteers were responsible for much of the lunch and dinner preparation which was appreciated by riders on their way to meet their own challenge. The volunteer efforts cannot not go mentioned without the great efforts of the club and Michael Bayer who was the ride director. Details for organization and rider treatment did not go unanalyzed or discussed and debated. Personalized wrist bands, rider numbers (with the rider's name printed), bike tags and ride routes (left here, right there, big hill here), personalized start times based on rider estimates of speed and desired distance, raised the rider treatment to a new level. More rider support in the form of a variety of endurance level products from Hammer Nutrition and Clif Bar Products, coffee, tea, soup, melons etc. etc. etc. was also noted by many riders.

The ride just about filled up its 250 rider limit. About 100 riders signed up for the 8 pass option, 25 for the Kid Carson and the rest were riding 1-6 passes. If the reader can recall, 13 June was Carson Valley days, which made for pretty nice and cool weather for a parade and valley festivities, but the mountains saw some spotty weather. When the ride started at 3:30 AM (this was for some 8 pass riders) there was light rain on Kingsbury. Now riding early in the morning, in the dark, in the rain on the way to 7 more passes and 160 more miles, does not sound fun, but many riders were making the trek with amazingly great attitudes. The next pass was somewhat kinder to the riders up Highway 89 to Luther Pass. Carson Pass, the third, was pretty cool for the riders, and the team had prepared coffee, hot chocolate, tea, soup, and other food for the conditions. Later in the day, rain came to visit the riders and provided a brief challenge to those on the pass. The next was Blue Lakes, which the Alta Alpina Junior team rode to give the riders on road support for flats, mechanical issues, hand up food if riders needed it. This too had spotty showers. On the Junior team's way down, they were greeted by a shower at the top of Blue Lakes which soaked feet and clothes for the long 20 mile descent. This made for a chilly downhill. In Hope Valley, sleet greeted the team, yet just like the Challenge riders, a great attitude and outlook kept the team going. For a few of the junior riders, this was their longest ride and highest climb of their whole lives. At 60 miles, this was a big ride for anybody. The riders went back to Turtle Rock Park for a great lunch. Some riders stopped there and some went on to meet their challenge. These riders went on to ride both sides of Ebbett's pass followed by both sides of Monitor Pass. The riding went on into the night with all riders finished by 10:30 whether they finished their challange or not.

All of the comments from the riders, volunteers and other staff have been overwhelmingly positive. Even one 8 pass rider who had to be turned aournd because he didn't make the cutoff on Monitor pass happily responded by something to the nature of: That is ok. This is the best supported ride ever. This will just make sure I come back next year!

It has been a lot of work for many people and for a long time, but it appears that it has been a great investment for the club to build a ride with even more success and increased rider experience. The club looks forward to meeting the challenge of doing it again next year. How many people finished? Less than 20 people earned the priveledge to wear the Alta Alpina Challenge 8 Pass Jersey. I saw one of them myself last week in Nevada City.

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Mel Maalouf
Alta Alpina Junior Cycling Team Coach
USA Cycling Expert Coach
1609 Olua St.
Minden, NV 89423
+1 775 782 9652
alpinajr@gmail.com
www.altaalpina.com

Bike Month in Nevada

2009-05-02T23:09:00.000-07:00

Nevada Bicyclists:

May is going to be a busy bicycling month in Nevada!

Governor Gibbons has proclaimed the week of May 11 – 15, 2009 as Nevada Bike to Work Week. The proclamation is attached. Bike to Work activities are being planned in the following locations:
Carson City
Lake Tahoe
Washoe County
Clark County

Bike to Work Week 2009 will be followed by the 8th annual Nevada Bicycle and Pedestrian Conference at Lake Tahoe on May 20th and 21st. This annual conference features two days of topics related to bicycle and pedestrian planning, facilities, education, events, and safety. More information can be found at . A flier is attached.

As if that were not enough, we are featuring the League of American Bicyclists’ Traffic Skills 101: Smart Cycling Course on May 21-22 (Thursday evening, and Friday) in Carson City. This class is an excellent adult bicycling skills course and is the first step towards becoming and League Certified Instructor (LCI). More information at

I encourage you to participate in activities and promote Bike to Work Week in our State. Please forward to all interested.

Ride safe !

Bill Story
Bicycle, Pedestrian & Safe Routes to School Programs Manager
Intermodal Planning Division
Nevada Department of Transportation
1263 S. Stewart St.
Carson City, NV 89710
(775) 888-7357 (office)
(775) 888-7207 (FAX)
(775) 721-4246 (cell)
wstory@dot.state.nv.us (email)
www.bicyclenevada.com
www.walknevada.com

Bike to Work News from TRPA

2009-05-02T21:33:00.000-07:00

Bike to Work Returns!!!
The Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency bring you the new and improved Bike to Work—now Lake Tahoe Bike to Work, School, and Play Week! Commuters, students, and everyone else, sign up today at www.TahoeBike.org to participate in the Bike to Work, School and Play Challenge, May 11-15, 2009!
Last year 450 people rode. Our goal this year is 750 riders Basin-Wide! Can we do it?
As before, rally your co-workers to sign up as an EMPLOYEE TEAM. No employee team? Sign up as an individual and log your rides to work, school, errands AND, new this year, log your recreational rides as well!! Walkers welcome also. Visit www.TahoeBike.org for more details on competition categories and our wonderful prizes donated by local businesses like Resort at Squaw Creek, Bike the West, BlueGO, Embassy Suites, Harrah’s, Fair and Green, Pearl Izumi and many more!! NOTE: You may not get a confirmation e-mail that you are signed up, but if you can log back in, then you are successfully registered.
TEAM CAPTAINS—the Ride Log is new and improved! You should be able to see and access your team members’ data.
The LOG RIDES function is not available yet—if you try to log rides, you will get an error message! Don’t worry! Log Rides starts May 11th.
We have fabulous SOCKS this year! Order yours by April 27th to guarantee availability. See attached order form.
EMPLOYEE TEAMS--we want to feature you! Send us an e-mail to let us know what your agency is doing to promote biking to work, and what you have done in the past. We will choose as many employee teams as we can to be featured in the North and South Shore papers.
Don’t forget to get your bike tuned up at our BIKE FIX-IT BOOTHS at North Shore Earth Day—Saturday, April 18th at Squaw Valley, and South Shore Earth Day-- Saturday, April 25th at Montbleu. Thank you Gary Bell of Sierra Ski and Cycle Works and John Svahn of the Truckee Trails Foundation.
Our local coffee shops continue to be big supporters by providing COFFEE STOPS—check www.TahoeBike.org for full details and locations. Truckee riders you will have plenty of coffee this year!!
BLUEGO will offer free rides if you bring your bike on the bus May 11-15th. Make transit part of your commute this year!
And last but not least I would like to thank our official sponsors, who are dedicated to helping promote bicycling and a sustainable Lake Tahoe: Nevada Department of Transportation, Tahoe Metropolitan Planning Organization, Heavenly Mountain Resort, Entrix, EDAW, Lumos and Associates, Bike the West, League to Save Lake Tahoe, Design Workshop, Barton Healthcare System, Integrated Environmental Restoration Services, and Bike Habitat. A big thank you to these and the other businesses who are donating in-kind goods and services to support Bike to Work, School, and Play. See www.TahoeBike.org to link to our sponsors.
Karen Fink
Transportation Planner
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
PO Box 5310
Stateline, NV 89449
775-589-5204
kfink@trpa.org

I Can't Wait...Spring is Almost Here!

2009-03-01T16:14:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone,

I am looking forward to seeing you at the Alta Alpina Spring Membership meeting on April 20th at the CVIC hall in historic downtown Minden, the same place as last year. If you can’t make it to the membership meeting, or you want to renew your membership early, go to altaalpina.org and click on the Renew Membership button on the Right side of the home page.

It’s hard to believe that March 1st is here. Twain Berg has been very busy this off season coming up with new rides, more leaders, competitions and more opportunities for club members to join each other on the road and dirt. Check out the AACC Ride Board, there are already some new rides being posted for the next few weeks. Di Bolton has this season’s club road race schedule finalized and will kick off in late April. MTB race/ride series details are still being worked out as Mike Beam, the coordinator for the past three years is unable to continue. We are looking for ways to increase the number of rides for our Tahoe members too. You can count on many of our club’s annual line of events like the G’ville 100, Pinenut Cracker, Carson Valley Classic, King (and Queen) of Kingsbury, Genoa Cyclocross.

The main event this year is the Alta Alpina Challenge on June 13th beginning and ending at Turtle Rock Park. An inaugural event that has the potential of becoming a “must do” ride on the regions’ summer ride calendar, and the major fund raiser that allows AACC to continue it mission of supporting all forms of cycling in the Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Carson Valley and Markleeville region. The planning, organization and staging of the Challenge is rolling along. The Challenge will have something for every club member to get involved in, and there will be opportunities to ride too. There is an opportunity and a need for everyone to participate. The promise of next year depends on the success of this years’ Challenge. In order to organize our membership and match you to a volunteer position you are interested in, please follow this link to Survey Monkey to fill out a very brief questionnaire.

There is so much going on it’s hard to put it all in one news item. There is more to come. Make a point to attend the spring membership meeting to learn more, and check the AACC web page frequently as new items are being put up almost daily, thanks to our web master Dennis Pederson, and club members like you posting rides. Please, please, please fill out the Alta Alpina Challenge, Riding the Wild Sierra, volunteer questionnaire at Survey Monkey (link above).

I’ll see you on a ride soon! All the best.

Peter