SF Two Day Women's Skills Clinic

[velogirl]

Hey girls! This is the perfect way to end your summer riding season -- brush up on your skills and learn how to ride your bike more efficiently, confidently, and safely!

Girls Got Skills, our corner-stone two-day women's cycling clinic, will be September 23rd and 24th. Featuring 16 hours of personalized instruction and lectures, this clinic is appropriate for the intermediate to advanced recreational rider and any level of racer. Past participants have been endurance riders, CAT3 and CAT4 racers, and triathletes from throughout the United States. Some of our participants have been riding as little as a year; some as many as 20 years. We guarantee that everyone will learn something and benefit from the weekend. Now in our 4th season of offering this clinic, hundreds of women have participated over the years.

During the weekend, we focus on individual bike handling skills, group riding skills, and on-the-bike training:

• Mounting/Dismounting
• Starts, Stops, and Emergency Stops
• The Look
• Riding without Hands
• Bumping
• Bike Handling
• Bunny Hopping
• Cornering & Counter-Steering
• Climbing & Descending
• Group Riding (pacelines & eschelons)
• HR Based Training (including a time trial HR test and sample workouts)
• Nutrition for cycling

Girls Got Skills is coached by Lorri Lee Lown and Sarah Lightfoot. Both have many years experience instructing hundreds cyclists both in clinics and one-on-one and have been collaborating since 2005.

The early--bird registration deadline is today. Group size is limited to 20 participants to ensure you get lots of personal attention. There are still a handful of spots available, so don't hesitate to register. We won't be offering this clinic again until spring 2007. You'll find more information here -- http://coaching.velogirls.com

[mimitabby]

This sounds really interesting, i might want to do this in the spring.
Are you close to an airport? do we have to bring our own bikes?
(I live in Seattle)

[velogirl]

Hi Mimi! I've had some Seattle-ites in the past!!! We're right near SFO and San Francisco is a great little town for public transit. I would recommend bringing your own bike because you'll be working on lots of skills. But if that's prohibitive, the bike shop where I work rents road bikes.

Would love to have you come. Bring friends! Or bring me up to Seattle and I'll coach a clinic for you there.

[extra-vert]

Hey velogirl,

I had already eyed this on your website and I am so bummed that I will be in LA for a baptism that weekend. Will you be having any more soon?

[velogirl]

I just added a one-day co-ed clinic for a group of AIDS LifeCycle riders. On October 7th. We could probably fit you into that clinic -- I don't think she'll fill it up.

After that, we'll do another 2-day clinic next spring -- it's too hard to do 2-day clinics in the winter because of the rain.

I may or may not do some additional one-day clinics this fall/winter.

[extra-vert]

October 7th - I'll keep it on my calender. I'll go back to your site and look for this one to reserve a spot. Thank you velogirl.

[mimitabby]

Hi Mimi! I've had some Seattle-ites in the past!!! We're right near SFO and San Francisco is a great little town for public transit. I would recommend bringing your own bike because you'll be working on lots of skills. But if that's prohibitive, the bike shop where I work rents road bikes.

Would love to have you come. Bring friends! Or bring me up to Seattle and I'll coach a clinic for you there.

I will certainly ask around.. The things you talk about sound like skills we seattle gals need to be good at.

So do you actually go on rides outside, this isnt all happening in a gym?