Perry-Roubaix - April 1st

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The 17th Annual Spring Fling Series!

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Revolution Racing proudly announces our 2012 Presenting Partner. 12th & Haskell Recycle Center presents the 17th Annual Spring Fling Bike Race featuring free youth and junior racing. 12th & Haskell Recycle Center keeps the earth green and keeps kids racing!  more...

Revolution Racing proudly announces our 2012 Presenting Partner. 12th & Haskell Recycle Center presents the 17th Annual Spring Fling Bike Race featuring free youth and junior racing. 12th & Haskell Recycle Center keeps the earth green and keeps kids racing!

FREE Drop Off Recycling. We Pay YOU to Recycle Your Metals.

At 12th & Haskell Recycle center, we recycle cans and metals and pay you by the pound. And as long as you have a proper title, we can even recycle your vehicle. Call us today for more information.

We take an active role in our Lawrence community as well. We work with the organization Cans for the Community, who recycle aluminum cans to raise money for Douglas County non-profits and organizations.

http://lawrencerecycle.com/lawrence-ks-12th-and-haskell-recycle-center-services.htm

Coach Jim Whittaker launched his trade mark sprint to take the first race of the 2012 Kansas Road Cycling season. Jim won the Masters 35+ and three Team GP VeloTek Racers dominated the top four places. Jim also spent 20 minutes off the front of the Category 3/4 race with perennial motor Brett Johnson (Bike Shack) and after they were caught Joe Fox of Cycle hammered the nail into the Cat 3/4 coffin to take the win. When asked about his early season success Jim Whittaker says he's focused more on his aerobic engine this off season so he has more energy to sprint with.  more...

Coach Jim Whittaker launched his trade mark sprint to take the first race of the 2012 Kansas Road Cycling season. Jim won the Masters 35+ and three Team GP VeloTek Racers dominated the top four places. Jim also spent 20 minutes off the front of the Category 3/4 race with perennial motor Brett Johnson (Bike Shack) and after they were caught Joe Fox of Cycle hammered the nail into the Cat 3/4 coffin to take the win. When asked about his early season success Jim Whittaker says he's focused more on his aerobic engine this off season so he has more energy to sprint with.

Sherri Kreps (Bike America) kept up her string of Spring Fling Cat 3/4 Women's success alive with great riding to win first. A large and aggressive Category 4 women's field saw the field shatter after the mid-race sprint. Santa Fe Trail's Ann Parthemore wins her first every Spring Fling race! Santa Fe Trail had the largest team showing of any team in the area on Saturday.

Bike America, GP VeloTek, Tallgrass and Big D Cycling mixed it up in the Cat 4/5 race. Rick Krepps kept the family tradition of crit winning alive. Rei with Tallgrass racing showed his new form and road to an aggressive 3rd place. Fifty-seven Cat 4/5 raced around the 1.1 mile course with sunny skies and chili temps.

Michael Allison and Matt Ledbetter both of Team GP VeloTek placed 1,2 in the Category 5 race and Teammate Elliot Childs won the Juniors crit for the day.

Racers please study your rule book which is required of all racers and helps you make smart tactical decisions. http://www.usacycling.org/forms/USAC_rulebook.pdf. Here are some ways to help race officials score your results.  more...

Racers please study your rule book which is required of all racers and helps you make smart tactical decisions. http://www.usacycling.org/forms/USAC_rulebook.pdf. Here are some ways to help race officials score your results.

• Don't wrinkle your bib number, it makes it hard for the camera to pick up.
• Place your number above your jersey pocket and the bottom edge of the number in the middle of your side.
• After the race immediately report to the Officials tent if you think you were in any points.
• Shortly after the race results will be placed on the white trailer, you have 15 minutes to protest. Emailing 72 hours later won't be helpful. It's not fair to change the results when all parties aren't present to defend their position and or help the officials resolve disputes.
• Riders think they know how they place in the pack but the lack of perspective generally skews their perception.
• Remember if an official is 99% accurate that means one person will be miss cored per day. You aren't perfect so don't expect them to be. If you think racing is hard then trying being and official. I know you are pumped up from the race but be professional and friendly. They are people too.

• It's a points race. You can win the LAST lap and still not win the overall!
• It's a points race so if you finish 10th the last lap you will have ZERO points. Then you will be listed as DNP on the results.
• Want some glory? Go for some points and work on your sprint ability. Perfect for this time of year.

Jim Whittaker is the Director of Athlete Performance for VeloTek Performance, LLC. He's been providing handcrafted custom training programs since 1994. Jim was fully self employed a Professional  more...

COACH
Jim Whittaker is the Director of Athlete Performance for VeloTek Performance, LLC. He's been providing handcrafted custom training programs since 1994. Jim was fully self employed a Professional

Cycling coach from 2000 to 2007 but now enjoys the additional challenge of teaching Personal Training and recruiting for a local Technical College.

Jim has coached 6 National Champions, 1 World Champ, and a couple of podiums at Nationals. Ironically Jim's greatest coaching success has been in cyclo-cross at the National level. Perhaps because athletes place closer to the their fitness level without the dynamics of road tactics and wind resistance. Jim coaches BMX, Road, off-road, and Cyclo Cross athletes of all levels.

Jim is a CSCS, NSCA-CPT, ACSM-ETT, and has a M.S.Ed in Exercise Physiology from the University of Kansas. Jim says don't let that stuff scare you, his success in developing athletes is keeping them focused and motivated and preventing them from doing too much. He can bore you with Lactate threshold, mass to frontal area formulas, and what anaerobic glycolysis enzymes you need to train to increase your 5-second FTP. But if you aren't stretching 5 - 15 minutes after every ride it's a moot point. If you don't consume the right calories at the right time all the tech stuff is irrelevant. If you have "naked" knees under 70 degrees. If you want to quit because cycling is hard... You get the picture. Real Coaching for Real people, with Real lives. Oh yea but he will help the elite cyclist as well. Jim just finds helping a beginner become elite is more challenging than coaching a gifted athlete who's raced for 5 years.

Jim offers Professional consulting and customized training for riders from all teams and all levels. 913.269.VELO

RACER
Jim is a lifelong Category 3 Road cyclist, Masters Racer, And ex-Category 1 Mountain biker (don't ask). He's won or placed well in a couple of Category 3 flat crits, and Pro1/2 crits. He's a 57:06 40 KM State Time trialer at St. Mary's, Kansas on one very windy June Day. He's won one hilly Kansas Masters Road Race Championships way off the front. Jim raced Tour of the Gila in 1991 and finished dead last over 2 hours behind the winners, but he finished. And he started racing cyclo-cross during its infancy in 2000. He even placed 2nd at an Expert Mountain Bike Race behind Bill Stotle and 3rd behind Steve Tilford at the Lawrence River Trails many moons ago. Jim has raced over 500 times and for every 10 times he was dropped he produced a great result, so good day or bad keep on pedaling.

RACE PROMOTER
Jim Whittaker is the Race Director for Revolution Racing, LLC. Jim promoted his first cycling event in 1991 at Haskell Indian Nations college. Jim has promoted over a hundred cycling events since 1991. At Jim's promoting peak during the mid 2000's he promoted the Chili's Summer Sizzler Series and offered 21 days of racing to North East Kansas. The Spring Fling Crit Series has been going strong for seventeen years and he promotes Perry Roubaix, and the soon to be resurrected Twilight Bike Race. Jim also promoted the Lone Star Lake Triathlon years ago but choices to focus on road cycling. When Jim started racing in 1988 travelling 3 to 5 hours a weekend was necessary to find races. Kansas Cycling had 200 racers and not many races. Twenty five years there is almost 100 events on the calendar and Kansas ridership has doubled! Awesome team effort from hundreds of people. Grow the Sport!

CYCLING DEVELOPMENT
Jim is coach & founder of Team GP VeloTek (established March 2004) specializing in growing the sport and developing Cat 1,2,3,4 and 5 riders. Team GP VeloTek is compromised of 50+ men, women, and youth pushing cycling in the Topeka, Lawrence, and KC Metro areas. Team GP VeloTek has earned 5+ National Championship Jerseys and its alumni have podiums at World's and we helped developed the first Kansas born Professional cyclist in 20 years. If you want to grow yourself and the sport then contact us! We always have openings for like minded racers of any speed or age. www.gpvelotek.com

COMMUNITY
Thanks to the generous support of the local cycling community Revolution-Racing donates $1 per entry fee for every Spring Fling entrant to the Clinton Lake Handicap Access fund. Over the year's we've helped build an ADA bathroom for the Lake. Let's get everyone out to the lake! http://kdwpt.state.ks.us/news/State-Parks/Locations/Clinton

Revolution Racing contributes yearly to the American Indian College fund to promote education in the Native American community. http://www.collegefund.org/

Team GP VeloTek provides and maintains free youth loaner bikes for kids wanting to become involved with cycling. We don't expect adults to ride clunkers that don't fit so why are kids on beater bikes that don't fit? We have 24 inch wheels and 650's which will fit any youth at least 4 foot tall. There are many barriers to youth cycling development and Jim and Team GP VeloTek maintain a stable of 10 youth road bikes for your young beginner racer. Jim and Team GP VeloTek are always in need of small size cycling gear and equipment donations.

Jim is an Eagle Scout and Scout Master of the only Cycling Boy Scouts of America Venturing Crew in America. Venturing is a great way for youth age 14 to 21 to learn about cycling and careers related to cycling.