2012 Midwest Women's Mountain Bike Clinic

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It's only April and already the 7th Annual Midwest Women's Mountain Bike Clinic is nearly SOLD OUT! Only a few Advanced spots remain along with the Youth Clinic and International Mountainbike Instructor Certification (IMIC) courses.

Advanced Course
Come learn from some of the best mountain bike coaches around! Advanced riders will learn from Shaums March, Lindsey Voreis and Marla Streb! This 1.5 day course will teach you the skills you need to take you to the next level... whatever your personal goals may be! Cost is $125 per person.

Youth Clinic
This clinic is open to boys and girls age 8-12 years. This 1-2 hour clinic is taught by IMIC Instructors and is sure to get your little mountain biker feeling safer and more confident on the trail. Cost is $45. NO TRAINING WHEELS PLEASE

IMIC Ride Leader and Instructor Certification Courses
Do you lead group rides in your local area or ever consider offering beginner mountain bike lessons? Then check out the International Mountainbike Instructor Certification (IMIC) program! The one-day IMIC Ride Leader course is designed to train, prepare and certify mountain bike guides to safely lead mountain bike groups and provide support to IMIC Instructors and Coaches. The three-day IMIC Instructor course is designed to train, prepare and certify mountain bike instructors to safely guide mountain bike groups and conduct beginner level coaching.

Only 10 spots are available for the IMIC Ride Leader course and only 12 for the IMIC Instructor. Courses are lead by two-time World Masters Downhill Champion and IMIC Master Coach, Shaums March of Squamish, British Columbia. For more info on the Brown County courses go to http://www.midwestwomensclinic.com/i...ification.html. More info on the IMIC can be found at www.beimic.com

Go to www.midwestwomensclinic.com for all the info and a link to register.

The Midwest Women's Mountain Bike Clinic is an event run by Sub-9 Productions. Check out more of our events at www.sub-9.com.

[tjuillerat]

The Midwest Women's Mountain Bike Clinic is almost sold out (with only a few Advanced spots left!), but you can still win a free entry to this year's event!


The deadline for the second annual clinic contest with Girl Bike Love (Girl Bike Love) has been extended to next Wednesday, April 25. Submit your 90 second video (then get all your friends to comment and like it) and tell everyone why YOU need to attend the 7th Annuam Midwest Women's Mountain Bike Clinic!


Videos will be posted at Midwest Women's Clinic/GBL Contest on Vimeo for all to see.


The winner receives:

~ Free entry to the 2012 event (a refund will be given in the event the winner is already registered)

~ Free 2012 event t-shirt

~ Two nights FREE lodging at the Cornerstone Inn Bed & Breakfast the weekend of the event. Located just 2 miles from Brown County State Park in beautiful Nashville, Indiana. (Cornerstone Inn Bed & Breakfast -- Brown County, Indiana)

~ A huge package of goodies from our event sponsors!


Go to Contest for all the info!

[Catrin]

Has anyone signed up for this? I signed up for the beginner's group, last year I was in the introductory group.

It would be great to have a TE "meet and greet" if there are other members who will be there. I plan in arriving mid-afternoon Friday to get my campsite set up before the large meet and greet that evening. If I've time after setting up I plan to get a little trail ride in prior.

[Reesha]

I'm definitely thinking about this for 2013-- in preparation for a time when I wont need to drive an hour to go Mtn. Biking!

[Catrin]

I'm definitely thinking about this for 2013-- in preparation for a time when I wont need to drive an hour to go Mtn. Biking!

I don't NEED to drive an hour to mtn bike, but I choose to do so. The range of trails in Brown County gives me a larger choice of trails I can actually ride - and there are enough miles of trails that they are never packed even if the parking lots are. I highly recommend this Clinic, it is great. It also sells out earlier every year, so do keep that in mind

[Reesha]

Not to worry, I have TE ladies to alert me when registration comes online!

As for the driving... I was completely spoiled when I lived in Lake Placid... I could ride out my door and across the road onto the Olympic cross country ski trails (which have miles and miles of single track of all kinds of difficulty). I really miss that. What I really need are consistent female biking buddies who will make a morning of it. whenever I bike with my guy friends they always end up waiting up ahead hanging onto a tree while I plug along to catch up

[Catrin]

Not to worry, I have TE ladies to alert me when registration comes online!

As for the driving... I was completely spoiled when I lived in Lake Placid... I could ride out my door and across the road onto the Olympic cross country ski trails (which have miles and miles of single track of all kinds of difficulty). I really miss that. What I really need are consistent female biking buddies who will make a morning of it. whenever I bike with my guy friends they always end up waiting up ahead hanging onto a tree while I plug along to catch up

Ooooh, that sounds like that was lovely! As for me, there is only one local beginner trail that is much too easy - but it has been good for me to use to get dirt back under my wheels. It takes me 45 minutes to get there however, so it is hard to justify not going a little further to get to trails better suited to me. I've been putting it off since my return to the mt bike though - trying to return to the trails intelligently Next weekend is the right time!

I would love to find someone to ride with regularly on the trails, but my skills are so basic right now that there just isn't anyone at/near my level. There are a couple of women who ride with me from time to time, which I greatly appreciate and enjoy when it happens.