Tuesday Night Twilights

We’re close to our first race of the 2012 season

admin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:32:32 +0000

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

We missed the rain!

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:24:21 +0000

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.

One down, 11 to Go!

Ronnie — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:25:37 +0000

Hi all,

We did it, great turn out on Tuesday night, thank you everyone for showing up.

Had all the volunteers as planned and everything went pretty smoothly. We did have one pileup near the start/finish in the second race…ooooppppps, be careful out there.

So here’s the plan for this week (tomorrow):

This Tuesday (and potentially more to come) we are going to offer a Women’s Introductory clinic & race to all women who have raced between 0 and 10 races. If you have done 10 or more races, you will race with the category 4/5 race,

but are strongly encouraged to participate in the pre and post race discussions.

You will be mentored by our very own All Sport – Team Swift coach Laura Charameda, and working with Mariko Fischer of Echelon Cycle & Multisport, as well as other mentors that help with racer development.

The race is 20 minutes long and will be a way for you to learn the etiquette of racing in a group, cornering, safety, and much more. This is a new offering for 2011, and if the response is enthusiastic enough, we will continue to grow the Women’s race!!

All Newbie women racers MUST be registered and race ready by 5:05PM and meet at the start line to be a part of the clinic discussion.

Race Schedule for the women:
5:05PM – Clinic discussion and then we will all do warm up together
5:30-5:50 Race for Women who have done 10 or fewer races (you will be racing just after the juniors start their race)
6-6:30 Race with category 4/5 for Women who have done 10 or more races (this is more advanced, if you do this race please be sure you race at the back with a MENTOR)
6:30-7:00 Post Race Meeting for those who would like to attend

Reminder, there is no race next week on April 19th, but we will be back on the 26th, well I won’t. I’ll be in New Mexico!

Sponsor logo’s and bio’s are still in the works, they will be up on this website soon!

Thank you to all the volunteers and all those that have been contributing goodies for the cause!

Don’t forget we have a lost & found, so please turn in items found to registration. If you lost something (like your racing license) please check with registration.

Information regarding upgrade points is on the ‘FAQ’ page.

Race results for last week will be posted soon!

Chow for now!

Update

Ronnie — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:55:36 +0000

We’re back in full swing. Here are the 2011 Tuesday Night Twilight dates:

April 5, 12, 26

May 3, 10, 24, 31

June 21 and 28

July NO RACES SCHEDULED due to Santa Rosa Fair

August 23, 30

September 6

As most of you know I will be traveling pretty frequently this year so I have put a team of awesome people together to help keep the TNTs fun and exciting!

NEW Women’s Introductory Race:

We are going to offer to all women who have raced between 0 and 10 races who are a cat 4 or less to come out on Tuesday nights and race in the first race, which is the juniors race. You will be mentored by our very own All Sport – Team Swift coach Laura Charameda, and working with Mariko Fischer of Echelon Cycle & MultiSport. The race is 20 minutes and will be a way for you to learn the etiquette of racing in a group, Cornering, safety, and much more. There will be no prizes, or primes, this is just a way for you to gain experience.

Sponsors , Sponsors, Sponsors:

Liz Peacock of Spoke Folk Cyclery will be heading up and handing out the primes and 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winnings each Tuesday. If you have items to contribute, please contact Liz at Spoke Folk, or see her each Tuesday Night. Thank you so much to all our sponsors for all of your generosity.

FaceBook:

Don’t forget to follow the TNTs on FaceBook and watch for updates, John Piasta will be the FaceBook admin, thank you John!

Website:

Glenn MadDog Mattsson will be converting this website from Iweb to WordPress, so stay tuned!

Volunteers:

I have put together a process that we hope will help gather our volunteers each week. There is a google docs spreadsheet that lists all the volunteers who have signed up either on an individual basis or through their club team that will be monitored each week to determine if we need more people. There’s always room for more help of course, but right now the plan for marshal’s are; Red Peloton (turn 3), Collective (turn 2), Boba’s (turn 1) this will be their ‘weekly’ duty. All Sport-Team Swift, Colavita, Echelon, Red Peloton, Collective and the Boba’s will provide a person from each of their teams to ensure that we have someone to help marshal, setup and tear-down of equipment and straw, a runner for the results sheet, someone to ensure the bathrooms are clean and any other duties needed to run the crits.

Day Light Savings Time:

Our summer series of races will begin on April 5th at our normal race times:

Juniors, 20 minutes, beginning at 5:30

Cat 4-5, 30 minutes, beginning at 6:00

Cat 3-4, 35 minutes, beginning at 6:35

Pro123, 45+/- minutes, beginning at 7:10

In order to keep the race times consistent, the longer races may be cut short by 5 minutes at the discretion of Frank our official so that the racers of the final race will not be racing in the dark. If this is the case it should only be for the April 5th and April 12th dates and only the 3rd and 4th races will be shortened. Please be understanding if YOUR race is cut a little short.

Straw:

We will have a bit less straw on the course this year. Tim Campbell of Friendly Feed is generously donating straw again and Neil Martin has donated a small trailer to transport the straw. Tim has been our straw supplier for over 20 years and has advised us of the most critical locations for the straw. Thank you Tim and Neil for your support. Team Colavita will host the Apple Pie Criterium at the Corporate Center again this year and will be using insulation vatts. They will inform us if the insulation is a success or not, this might be an additional option for us to combine with the straw, or use in lieu of straw.

The TNT Crew:

Bruce – Volunteers

Lisa – Registration

Tracy Barhydt – Registration/Volunteers

Glenn Mattsson – Registration

Frank Ammirata – Race Official

Neil Martin – Straw transport

Scottie Roberts – Equipment transport

Liz Peacock – Primes

Comps for Volunteering:

2011 race volunteer comps will be as follows NO CHANGES. You MUST receive a VOUCHER and it must be signed off by registration or you will not be comped!

MARSHALS

oMarshal all races in one night = One race comped

SETUP/TEARDOWN of Equipment

oSetup/tear-down in one night = One race comped

oTwo Setups = One race comped

oTwo tear-downs = One race comped

STRAW CREW

oSetup/tear-down of STRAW in one night = One race comped

oTwo Setups of STRAW = One race comped

oTwo tear-downs of STRAW = One race comped