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Subject: Year-Rounder
Challenge
UMCA Year-Rounder
Challenge
Can you ride a century EVERY month in 2006?
Club centuries are the highlight of many endurance riders' season:
the
fun of a day on the bike with friends and the challenge of riding 100
miles. And, at least for the day, an unrestricted diet!
The UMCA Year-Rounder is designed to showcase consistent endurance
performance
in your cycling throughout the year. The Year-Rounder provides a
structure to motivate you throughout the season and to recognize your
personal
achievements.
Y-R awards recognize either riding a century every month or total endurance
mileage. Make either your goal ... or both!
-- The Y-R Larry Schwartz award honors riders who complete at least a century
every month. Centuries can be either Organized centuries or Personal
rides that you design yourself (explained below). Longer rides
also
count toward the Larry Schwartz award.
Other awards recognize your total endurance mileage throughout the
year:
-- The Y-R Gold award recognizes riders who log at least 3,000 miles in Y-R
rides.
-- The Y-R Platinum award is for cyclists who complete at least 5,000 miles
in
Y-R rides, including at least 2,000 miles in one of the divisions
(explained
below).
--The Y-R Who's Who riders are the top five Platinum riders in each
division.
Year-Rounder participants receive:
- an e-book Century Tips on training, nutrition, equipment and technique;
- an e-newsletter, sharing tips and stats;
- a bi-monthly Year Rounder column by Russ Loomis, who ride centuries every
weekend;
- a section at ultracycling.com devoted to the best century stories sent in
by
riders;
- a rider with at least 1,000 miles in the Year-Rounder gets a discount on
Accelerade and EnduroxR4.
For routing reasons some centuries are just under 100 miles, or exceed
100. So the Year-Rounder counts a Century as a ride of 90 - 149
miles. Rides 150-miles and over count as "Long"
rides.
The Larry Schwartz award allows make-ups for up to two months, in case
it's
too snowy or icy some months. For example, if you get snowed out in
January, just do two centuries in February or another month.
The Larry Schwartz award honors Larry Schwartz, who finished first in the UMCA Mileage Challenge
(predecessor to the Year-Rounder) in 2001, was second in 2002, and was
leading
in 2003 when he was struck and killed by a school bus. For a profile of
Schwartz go to: www.ultracycling.com/about/hof_schwartz.html
To get started, join the UltraMarathon Cycling Association at:
www.ultracycling.com/about/join.html
add in 10 bucks for the Year-Rounder, put on your wool jersey and head out
the
door!
Rules Summary:
The Y-R is structured in four divisions:
An "Organized Century" is a ride of 90 to 149 miles and
has: a
name, designated start/finish location and starting time(s), route plan,
organizer, and advance publication of the ride or ride series in club
newsletters, etc.
A "Personal Century" is a personally designed ride. For credit,
you
must complete at least 90 miles in a 12-hour period including off the bike
time
(and maintain an 8.33 mph average after that). Personal centuries
provide
century-length riding opportunities for riders in seasons or locales where
Organized centuries are sparse.
An "Organized Long" ride is organized like a Century, but is 150
miles or more.
A "Personal Long" ride is a Personally designed ride of 150 miles
or
more.
Any Year-Rounder ride counts toward the Larry Schwartz award- centuries, brevets, double centuries, 12-hour
races, etc.
We like to keep the holidays free for time with the family, so the Year
Rounder
ends on December 21 of each year. (The next year's Y-R Challenge
starts
12/22.)
For complete rules and ride documentation form, go to:
http://www.ultracycling.com/standings/umcrules.html