Mark your calendar for Saturday!
This month’s time trial is this Saturday, January 13! Come out and ride!

Swancott Time Trial Series continues, 2pm (sign up at 1:45), Swancott Grocery &
Deli,
Corner of Swancott and County Line. All speeds, ages and abilities are welcome!
Park
away from the start please. Details on website. Organizers:
Amelia.Baldwin@...
520-9494 or Gretchen.Everts@...

Come out and pit yourself against the clock and measure your performance over
time.
This is not a race against other cyclists. No award will be given to the fastest
finishers. This is a race AGAINST THE CLOCK to measure personal fitness. All
cyclists
are welcome and encouraged to participate. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A RACER OR
RACER
WANNABE TO PARTICIPATE!

WHAT: Swancott Time Trial - Monthly Series
WHEN: Saturday, January 13 at 2pm
WHERE: Corner of Swancott and County Line Road
CONTACTS: amelia.baldwin@... and gretchen.everts@...

|--- Volunteers Needed! ---|

Want to help? Please! We need someone to help with standing starts (i.e. hold
the seat
post so they can start upright already clipped in). This is an EASY job! Please
email us
if you want to help. Your help will be greatly appreciated! If you want to ride
AND
help, then we can arrange that as well through an early ride (we are going to do
one for
us, too).

|---The Details---|

On January 13, we will have our third monthly time trial. It will start from the
corner
of Swancott and County Line Road (Swancott Grocery and Deli) beginning at 2pm,
be there
to sign up by 1:45.

Come out and pit yourself against the clock. Our plan is to repeat the time
trial each
month (at least until Spring) so you can measure your progress over time. This
is not a
race against other cyclists. No award will be given to the fastest finishers.
This is a
race against the clock to measure personal fitness. All cyclists are welcome and
encouraged to participate.

COURSE: The course is 9 miles and includes Swancott, Rockhouse Rd, Henderson Rd
and Wall
Street. It is mostly well-paved and traffic is very light. Please take note of
the left
turn onto Rockhouse and take particular care there. The course is marked for the
time
trial using green paint and a map will be available if necessary. Here is a
preview:
http://www.bikealabama.info/maps/limestone-swancott9miletimetrial.gif
http://www.bikealabama.info/maps/limestone-swancott9miletimetrial.pdf

The course has eight 90 degree turns. Two of these are actual left turns from
one road
to another (Swancott to Rockhouse and Rockhouse to Henderson). Please take care!
The
others are just 90 degree bends in the roads (not intersections) like we see in
rural
Limestone County all the time. Acccording to bikely.com the route has about 170
feet of
climbing (and the same of descending of course).

LOCATION: Mr Bibb, of the Swancott Grocery and Deli, has graciously agreed to
let us use
his store as our starting point. Please do NOT park at the store (except
volunteers
helping run the TT). We do not want to not to block access to the store. Also,
please do
not park on Swancott west of County Line (so as not to block the view of
cyclists on the
course) or anywhere directly on the time trial course roads. Riders need to plan
to park
away from the start (see below) and do a warm up ride to the starting area.

Mr Bibb will be selling hot lunch after the Time Trial. The food is great!

SIGN UP: Show up at the store by about 1:45 to sign up. Cyclists will start in
the order
they sign up. If we have a big turnout, cyclists will wear numbers (which will
be
provided) and turn them back in at the finish. We will have a normal time trial
start,
with a cyclist starting every minute until all are out on the course. Timing
will be
provided. Results available shortly after the last rider finishes. Results will
be
tabulated over the series so you can track your progress. Results will be
emailed to
participants and/or posted on the web.

WARM UP RIDE: Park at Northrupp Grumman on Wall Triana Highway, warm up ride
leaves at
1:00 PM, finishing at the TT start around 1:45 to sign up.

OTHER PARKING: You may park at St Andrews Primitive Baptist Church or at New
Hope
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Both churches have graciously given permission
for use
of their parking lots. Please be parked and OFF the course BEFORE 2pm.

St Andrews is a bit further on Swancott (less than half a mile from the start),
take the
right turn up the hill right after the store - you know, the "church on the
hill" on the
left - but please park BEHIND the church, not in front.

New Hope is on Wall Street near the end of the time trial course. From the
store, go
straight west (i.e. don't take the right turn up to St Andrews) and after the
two 90
curves in the road, New Hope is on your left with a big parking lot in front.

WEATHER: The time trial will be cancelled only if the weather is REALLY bad.

SAFETY: Safety is primary, and safety should never be sacrificed for seconds.
Everyone
will wear a helmet. All cyclists will obey all traffic rules. We have a good
reputation
in this neighborhood and we want to keep it that way. :o)

Take particular care in making the left turn from Swancott to Rockhouse.
Oncoming
traffic has, of course, the right of way. Ride smart and be safe.

RULES:
Safety is most important.
Helmets required.
Do not cross the centerline at any time for any reason.
You may pass a cyclist on either side as long as you don't cross the centerline.
No drafting.

Amelia
520-9494
SCCC Professor of Rides