Join Donna and Your YBR Pals for the 2008 Tour de Cure!

Hi all,

For the last 12ish years I have been participating in and captaining teams
for the MS Society. This year, for the first time, I have decided to focus
on the Tour de Cure, mostly because a great guy and one of my good friends,
Tim Roden is in charge of the whole she-bang! Not to mention it's much
closer to home (Boiling Springs vs. Millersville). So....Come out and put
in some good training miles and do something really good for someone else!
:-)

Follow the link at the bottom of the page to get to our team page and get
signed up. Email me if you have any questions!

Thank you, Donna Weiser

Saturday, May 31st - Yellow Breeches Middle School

Diabetes affects the lives of millions of Americans. More than 20 million
adults and children have diabetes and 54 million are at risk.

While these numbers are staggering, there's something you can do: Join our
Tour de Cure team! Tour de Cure is the fund-raising ride of the American
Diabetes Association.

Signing up is easy! Use the link below to help us make a difference. The
funds we raise will support the American Diabetes Association's important
research, education and advocacy efforts.

Join us, and together we can take steps toward fighting diabetes!

Click here to visit my personal page.
If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web
address:
http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/TDC104938030?px=3507975&pg=personal&fr_id=5009&s_tafId=166019

Click here to view the team page for Team Heim - Yellow Breeches Racing
If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can visit the web
address:
http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/TourdeCure/TDC104938030?team_id=273588&pg=team&fr_id=5009&s_tafId=166019

News Flash! Mountain Biker Conjoins in Woods!

Zach takes the opportunity to conjoin with the soft, white snow on a recent ride on Community.

Calling All Mountain Bikers

Hey, I remembered how to get into this. And, I figured out how to post a new entry. Amazing. Next, I'll want a bike with gears! On to the point of this . . . if you're reading this and plan to race your mountain bike this year, please email me with your intended race schedule. I'd like to try to figure out what YBR's mountain bikers are actually up to. Anyone focusing on MASS? The endurance side? What?

In the meantime, here's the highlights of the race schedule Donna and I put together:
4-20 Savage sprint adventure race
5-3&4 12 Hours of Lodi
5-17 Rocktober Challange 50-miler
5-31 Tour de Cure century ride
6-4 thru 15 Follow Jen Krebs around the southwest on Race Across the West
7-20 Curse of Dark Hollow 50-miler
8-16 Wild 100
9-12 thru 14 RCST Mtn Bike Bash
9-20 Cap City Challenge sprint adventure race
Iron Cross? dunno . . .
10-26 MTeC 12-hour adventure race

We're kicking around bringing back Touch the Monkey Shake n Bake TT once a month and also beginner/casual mountain bike rides once a month to help all our disparate interests get together. I'll see if I can kick out an email, too.

Be strong--spring is around the corner!

The Wisdom of Fast Albert

Things I learned today that I had learned before but I never seem to really be able to apply to my life. Maybe If I write them down and put them in my wallet I’ll remember.

1) Riding when sick can be hard.

2) Riding with injured ribs hurts

3) Aches and pains associated with sickness makes injured ribs hurt more.

4) Riding a single speed uses more upper body strength and makes sore ribs hurt more.

5) Climbing makes you breathe harder and makes injured ribs hurt more.

6) Riding in cold air makes sick lungs really hurt.

7) Riding in cold air makes a sore throat hurt more.

8) Climbing on sort of mushy damp ground is harder on a single speed.

9) Don’t pick a route with climbing when you are sick.

10) Don’t pick a route with many rocks when your ribs hurt.

11) When you are sick you really don’t have as much strength as usual.

12) It is hard to get a good night sleep when your ribs hurt.

13) When you are aren’t feeling well you should just turn around and take it easy – don’t keep riding until you reach your original objective – it may be a long slow painful ride back.

14) Don’t wait until Sunday night to go to work and finish those projects.

15) Don’t take a break from your projects to write silly lists or you won’t ever get rest or finish projects.