Working Dawgs Training Camp Part B

[Jeffrey Rasch]

Bonsoir mes amis,

I hope this email finds you all healthy and happy.  The committee is very excited to get our little camp going tomorrow morning . We know you have all waited,  and hoped for the promised part B of the 2025 training camp. It will run starting Tomorrow July 14 ending July 17 or 18. I will not be available to lead the ride on the 18th because I will be working. If anybody is willing to step up and be the ride leader, I will happily handle email duties etc... There will be at least one bonus day, likely on Thursday for an additional 50 miles, The committee is still debating the exact day. Stay tuned Bat Fans... As the committee always says, the miles must be ridden, the form improved.

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION:

As always, the rides will start at 5:30AM, we will meet in the alley between Owenhouse Cycling and Rockford Coffee Company. We will try riding the Working Dawgs training loop backwards tomorrow. See the attached RidewithGPS file. There is gravel on this loop, so come prepared, it is rideable on a road bike. I did ride the loop last week on my road bike and it was fine. There should remain many places to cut this loop short and return to town early if work, family or life are interfering with your training. We are usually back in town around 8:15-8:30.  Although this is not a no-drop ride, we do stop 3 times to let dropped riders catch back up and to regroup. The link below is for the traditional loop in the normal direction.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51703364

The forecast on the weather app on my Iphone says 59 degrees at 5:30 and sunrise at 5:49.

The committee thought the weather would be better this week, but there is rain forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, stay tuned for more up to date forecasts.

The committee also really wants to raise money for Family Promise. If you donated during the May Camp, fantastic, consider yourself off the hook. If you didn't please do consider contributing. Along those lines Lucian and Jurgita Hand have stepped up again with a $1000 matching donation. There is also an additional anonymous $1000 matching donation. The committee wishes to thank Lucian and Jurgita and our anonymous donor for their generosity. This means if we can raise collectively at least $1000 Family Promise will get $3000 total. I know we can do this because we have far exceeded this in the past. 

The committee is pleased to announce that Family Promise is our local charity for fundraising this year. This is an organization that helps many families in the Gallatin Valley in their very important mission.\

Please read below for a summary of their mission and goals 

https://www.familypromisegv.org

Our vision is  to end homelessness in the Gallatin Valley, one family at a time. 

Our mission to empower families experiencing housing insecurities to secure a safe, affordable home, a livelihood, and the chance to build a better future for their children

Loison Bobet was a Working Dawg. Are you a Working Dawg? Winner of the Tour de France in 1953, 54, and 55.  He was World Champion in 1954. He won Milan-San-Remoand the Giro de Lombardia in 1951.  Tour of Flander in 1955 and Paris Roubaix in 1956. He quit his first Tour De France in the alps in 1947 in tears, earning him the nickname of cry baby and La Bobbette, the feminization of his last name. 

I hope to see you all tomorrow, July 14th at 5:30 am

Your humble domestique

Jeff

What can I say it's a Stones, kinda day.

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