Hey all,

We did it again, a good, fun night of racing.  The women were back, yeah!  Only one problem, well actually 8 of them, ‘staples’ on the course.  We looked, couldn’t find them, had 8 flat tires.  I told the fairgrounds, who knows!

So a reminder that we will NOT be out there this coming week, April16th.  The fairgrounds has an event going on, so we’ll be returning on April 23rd.  Pete and Stephanie will be your trusted registration and volunteer coordinators.

Speaking of volunteers, the turn out for marshals is lacking.  We need each team to step up and participate, please.  The same people are doing setup/teardown, hay, and a few are marshaling.  If our regulars don’t show up to help out, the equipment or the hay will not get put out on the course.  And even though it’s a fairgrounds, there are cars sometimes.  We need marshals.  NEVER have a lack of mentors, interesting, LOL!!!

We have a new ‘raffle’ donor, thank you to Lisa Hunt and Osmo. Yeah!

Have a great weekend!

Ronnie

Hey, thank you all for showing up in great numbers tonight.  We had a great turn out and hopefully lot’s of fun. And I think the new ‘raffle’ was a success.  The ‘sort of” is the lack of women that showed up and it appears that we just aren’t ready to enter the 4/5 category race and race with the men.  So, let’s just do what we’ve always done.  Let’s get the women back out there, ALL of you.  The hope was to get newbies out there and ‘upgrade’ (if you will) the more advanced women to the next level of racing at the TNTs.  But apparently this idea wasn’t a good one, at least not yet.  So we’re going to have a meeting of the minds, Lauren Green, Laura Charameda, Nina Strika, Mariko Fischer and Deanna Mckenzie to figure out how to make a women’s race that will have our beginners keep coming back AND continue to groom our more experienced racers.  We’d like to provide good mentors for the new women and the more experienced women and also have the more experienced women helping the new racers, this is about training and getting more women out at the races and enjoying the sport.

On another note, please remember  if you do not hold a USAC license, you need to fill out a ONE Day form, see myself (Ronnie) or Lisa at registration. We keep the ONE Day forms, and this is all you will need to fill out.

Thank you for coming and see you all next week!!!

Hey all you TNTers!!! We’re close, April 2nd is our first race for 2013.  We’re getting ready, are you?

Here are the dates for this summer’s 2013 series of races:

April 2, 9, 23  and 30

May 7, 14, and 21

June 4, 11, 18 and 25

July 2, 9

I am sorry we couldn’t get more dates.  The fairgrounds has other events and we just couldn’t get more.  If we had an alternate location, it would be awesome to add more dates!

SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The women’s race will be held as it was last year, it will start at 5:30 just after the juniors take off!  We are asking that only those that have raced 0-10 times start this race.  We hope to help more women in the racing community gain experience and become more interested in continuing their racing experience.  We’d like all women who have raced over 10 races to enter the Cat 4-5 race that starts at 6:00.  If you would like to ‘mentor’ your fellow women racers, please come to registration and talk to Bruce about getting a vest.  And of course we want to promote women’s cycling, not lose women, so if the Cat 4-5 race get’s too wild, we’ll have to have a powwow!

VOLUNTEERS:

And as always we appreciate and need volunteers to help with setup/teardown, straw, marshaling, a raffle prize runner for Frank, and help making sure the bathrooms are clean.

Remember, rain most likely cancels the event!

And a couple of  yearly friendly reminders:

• Please do not warm up in the parking lot across the street (we want to stay in good standings with the fairgrounds)
• Please keep the bathrooms clean
• Please save your race numbers and bring them each time you race
• Please bring your racing license to the first race that you will be participating in so we can validate the number and expiration
• Bring money (ha)

EVENTS:

And please check out Steven Cozza’s KIDS Gran Fondo held on May 11th at Lucchesi Park in Petaluma.

SHARE THE LOVE:

Check out Heather Nielson’s Coaching, she is now based in San Rafael and would love to get more involved with coaching in our community.   Please welcome her and check out her Facebook page.

I hope you’ll be out there again this year.  Same place, same times, same prices!!! Check out the race flyer for more info.  And keep watching this site or Facebook for updates.

Ronnie

Hey all you TNTers!!! We’re close, April 3rd is our first race.  We’re getting ready, are you?

Here are the dates for this summer’s series of races:

April 3, 10 and 24

May 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29

June 19, and 26

July 10

August 21, 28

September 4

The women’s race will be held as it was last year, it will start at 5:30 just after the juniors take off!

We also need prime and winning donations, if you can sponsor the races by bringing product or finding someone that would like to donate that would be awesome.  It would be great to get wine and beer again, and maybe coffee and bread, would be nice to get that back!

Remember, rain most likely cancels the event!

And a couple of friendly reminders:

• Please do not warm up in the parking lot across the street (we want to stay in good standings with the fairgrounds)
• Please keep the bathrooms clean
• Please save your race numbers and bring them each time you race
• Please bring your racing license to the first race that you will be participating in so we can validate the number and expiration
• Bring money (ha)

I hope you’ll be out there again this year.  Same place, same times, same prices!!! Check out the race flyer for more info.  And keep watching this site or Facebook for updates.

Ronnie

Hi TNTers,

Thanks for the great turn outs, and for not warming up in the Brookwood Parking lot.

I love seeing all those juniors, and the great turn out for the Beginner Women’s Race.

We’re in full swing and even though the nights get chilly, we have been able to avoid the rain.

I hope you are all enjoying the season, and just a reminder, here are the upcoming crit dates:

May 31

June 21

June 28

August 23

August 30

September 6

I know there aren’t as many this year due to the ‘fair’ at the fairgrounds, but maybe next year we can get them filled in at another location.

Don’t forget to look on Facebook for any updates. And I just updated the FAQ page with some info about upgrade point procedures.

Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers for helping me keep the Twilights running during my busy year of traveling.  I really appreciate it!  And thank you to all our sponsors who bring all those great primes/prizes.