Bike I Road Course in Bloomington

[silver]

thanks Tom, if mr. would let me drive that far I would have come and taken your class. In fact, if the guys in Bloomington had not put this together for us, we were going to contact you to see if we could work something out.

I am so anxious to get become an LCI. I have many plans concerning coaching and advocacy that will be facilitated by this, both the knowledge and the qualification.

I'm sure that I will be nagging you with questions.

Hopefully, I'll be able to actually register for the seminar and get my materials on the way on Monday. Somehow, the league has lost my membership number. seems to be a problem with registering as a family. Mr. actually has little personal desire for the LCI, but is doing it to be with me and support me.

Our son will take the Road I with us.

[mupedalpusher]

Melalvai I would encourage you to take the class! I'll be helping with the class. Assure hubby it won't matter that our other friend is in charge. He's not the teacher, they bring in an LCI teacher. I hope you can work things out to take it, we need more LCI's in Columbia.

[Technotart]

Yay!!! More LCI's! I just got mine TODAY!

We will be offering a Women's only Road I in the next couple of months in Dallas!

[susan.wells]

Mr. S can you send me registration information for this course? I highly doubt that I can make this one since I return from a weeklong business trip to Germany on Friday at 6 PM ... however it could help clear the cobwebs!

[Mr. Bloom]

Mr. S can you send me registration information for this course? I highly doubt that I can make this one since I return from a weeklong business trip to Germany on Friday at 6 PM ... however it could help clear the cobwebs!

If you don't mind futons, you can stay with us...I'm trying to get stuff for mel's sister, I should have something later today.

[PscyclePath]

thanks Tom, if mr. would let me drive that far I would have come and taken your class. In fact, if the guys in Bloomington had not put this together for us, we were going to contact you to see if we could work something out.

I am so anxious to get become an LCI. I have many plans concerning coaching and advocacy that will be facilitated by this, both the knowledge and the qualification.

I'm sure that I will be nagging you with questions.

Hopefully, I'll be able to actually register for the seminar and get my materials on the way on Monday. Somehow, the league has lost my membership number. seems to be a problem with registering as a family. Mr. actually has little personal desire for the LCI, but is doing it to be with me and support me.

Our son will take the Road I with us.

Ray Hess, the LCI who will be teaching the Bloomingdale course, was in my LCI seminar in Louisville last year. He's good folks, and will take good care of ya'll.

And it looks like Arkansas will be represented in the Columbia seminar as well... Jenn Shaw from here in Little Rock and Mitch Durham from Greenwood will be students there.

Have y'all gotten your instructor manual and pre-seminar packet/exam yet?
Time to start studying hard!

Tom

[Mr. Bloom]

We're hoping to get all the materials this week. There was a problem with our League membership #...but we finally got it fixed.

[Melalvai]

Silver, how was the class? All I know is that Mr. Silver didn't make it, it rained, and it was brutally cold all Saturday. I saw a group of you downtown when I took my daughter to the post office that morning (in a car) (with a heater) (in a heated car) (did I mention the car was heated?)!

I also heard there was a fierce argument between the St. Louis cyclists and the Columbia cyclists about whether "taking the lane" means you ride in the right tire track, or smack between the right & left tire tracks of where a car would be. Personally my vote is (usually) for the middle (depending on circumstance), but I also don't think it is worth getting my panties in a wad over, and I know if I had been there I would have been very irritated at those involved in the argument for wasting my time.

(I heard that from my bike-shop friend, Todd, who helped me put together my bike yesterday, he took the course with you.)

So, are you ready to go out and teach Road I and Bike Pro to everyone? I'll tell my sister to keep an eye out for classes scheduled during her breaks!

[PscyclePath]

I also heard there was a fierce argument between the St. Louis cyclists and the Columbia cyclists about whether "taking the lane" means you ride in the right tire track, or smack between the right & left tire tracks of where a car would be. Personally my vote is (usually) for the middle (depending on circumstance), but I also don't think it is worth getting my panties in a wad over, and I know if I had been there I would have been very irritated at those involved in the argument for wasting my time.

(I heard that from my bike-shop friend, Todd, who helped me put together my bike yesterday, he took the course with you.)

"Taking the lane" means riding far enough to the left that you are clearly visible to motorists behind you, and that it requires them to change lanes or cross the center line to get around you with safe passing distances. Just where that is on the street depends on the size of the lanes/roads. Me, I tend to take the center as well. Riding too far to the right, whether that be in the tire track or closer to the lane striping just temps a motorist to try and squeeze by you in the same lane, regardless of whether he's supposed to stop at that red light just 60 feet ahead ;-)

Also anxious for news from the Columbia course...

Tom

[Melalvai]

"Taking the lane" means riding far enough to the left that you are clearly visible to motorists behind you, and that it requires them to change lanes or cross the center line to get around you with safe passing distances. Just where that is on the street depends on the size of the lanes/roads. Me, I tend to take the center as well. Riding too far to the right, whether that be in the tire track or closer to the lane striping just temps a motorist to try and squeeze by you in the same lane, regardless of whether he's supposed to stop at that red light just 60 feet ahead ;-)

Yeah, seemed like a silly thing to argue heatedly about. Then again, as cold as it was, I suppose they had to have something to heat them up, poor things!

Also anxious for news from the Columbia course...

I heard 15/16 were present, which is (I guess) an awfully large class. (The 16th being Mr. Silver, presumably.)

[Mr. Bloom]

Although I passed Road I, my "points off" were for not being aggressive enough in "taking the lane". I was very comfortable with my position...but after having my perspective changed, I see the virtue.

I'll let Silver respond with detail, but she was exhausted. On Saturday, it was 8AM to 10PM. She wound up having to put on jeans and a down coat to stay warm. She doesn't have much "insulation".

Here's a picture of their group:
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...-March2008.jpg

I'm sad that I couldn't make the glass...but I have to admit that I may not have had the stamina to survive the 38 degree, windy, rainy rides on Saturday. I may have been Private Benjamin in boot camp!