Good Luck: Candy Pennington

On Your Mark would like to wish Candy Pennington the best of luck as she runs her first half marathon this weekend in North Carolina.

Good Luck Candy... dont forget to breathe! Be sure to let us know how you faired.

Bike Hackers Get Whimsical With Two-Wheelers

From Wired of all places...

Bicycles, like cars, are chock-full of parts that can be replaced, but simply switching out silver aluminum rims for hot-pink ones is child's play. Welcome to the world of bike modding, where bicyclists get creative and turn their two-wheelers into rolling works of art and artifice.

Full story: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_bike_hacks

National Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day Draws Thousands of Young Riders

The fourth edition of IMBA's Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day, falling on Oct. 6 this year, continued the program's tradition of getting young riders outdoors on bikes. The 2007 celebration was held in locations around the globe, including events in Chiba City, Japan; Melbourne, Australia; and Chiluca, Mexico. More than 100 groups registered their rides on IMBA's website.

http://www.imba.com/news/news_releases/11_07/11_05_kid_mtb_day.html

Wet is the current theme... FSC #5 offers more splashing...

The current lake level is about 5 feet low, but you would never know it by seeing our Florida race courses. This year, wet seems to be the common theme, however it didnt stop the racers from showing up and testing their medal against the area's top riders. Once again, despite the wet weather, Goneriding and Swamp Club put together a great event. Many thanks to those that made it happen.

Top Story: On Your Mark's own Christine Benkly (laserbikefit.com) takes 3rd place in the women's sport division. Congratulations Dart, we are proud of your accomplishments!

Other notables: Matt "Knobster" Goforth improves to 6th place and seems to be gaining on the top 5, Julie Barker 5th in women's expert, and Robert Bounds 5th in Semi Pro. Robert continues to have great results in a very deep semi pro division. The rest of the laserbikefit.com team also had outstanding results with Sean Smith and Tim Wisner taking 2nd and 5th, respectively in 30+ expert.

Greg Derosa (Team UBC) takes another win continuing his streak...

Congratulations to all of our riders, you represent us well. Keep working hard!

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Razorback is closing!!!!!!!!!!!

From Goneriding.com:

Razorback MTB Park Closing: We are sad to announce that after a successful seven years of trail riding and mountain bike racing at the Razorback MTB Park in Reddick, Florida the park will be closing, the last day will be Sunday 11-04-07 . The owners of the property have decided to pursue other interests with the property and although we have maintained a good relationship with the owners and they have been very complimentary to our management of the park, the decision is none the less final.

This coming weekend the park hours will be like normal but on the last weekend we will open the park on Thursday 11-1-07, Friday 11-2-07, Saturday 11-3-07 & Sunday 11-4-07 from 9am to dusk and camping and night riding will be allowed all four of those days. We do plan on having an informal farewell party on Saturday night (all are invited, music, bonfire, etc) 11-03-07 at the park. As for food we will be providing enough hot dogs and baked beans for about 150 and we will rely on pot-luck contributions after that, BYOB (bring your own beverages). Again the last day to ride Razorback will be 11-04-08 a Sunday.

This also means that the scheduled final round of the Florida State Championship which was scheduled for Razorback will now be moved to the Santos Trails with the date remaining the same 12-09-07. We feel the Santos location will be the best choice for the final event even though the seventh round is also at the same location, we do plan on running the FSC #7 & FSC #8 courses in opposite directions however.

The popular 12 Hours of Razorback (scheduled for 2-16-08 ) will be moving to a course in the area and we will release the information ASAP.

Also the first round of the SERC series will now be in Gainesville at Haile’s Trails on 3-16-08 .

Please help pass the word as it is such short notice for everyone!

Hailes Trails: Gainesville, FL is a diamond in the rough!

Who named it Hailes Trails anyway?

The trails in Gainesville have always been known as Hailes Trails. Nestled right next to the popular MX park Gatorback is only open for racing weekends. The turnout is always great here, and the field was deep in most classes.

Conditions were near perfect for the entire weekend, and the Laserbikefit.com team was poised to make a move in the overall team standings. Notables today are Robert Bounds (Laserbikefit.com) taking 3rd place in the Semi Pro class and touting an average speed over 14mph! Bounds, you're flying!

Greg Derosa (Team UBC) grabs his first expert win today! Congratulations Greg, we expect more from you yet!

Jamie Knight (Bent's Cycling/buildingchampioncyclistsfl.net), the youngster in semi/pro, is hanging in there with the big boys and will be a force to reckon with next year. We continue to expect great things from Jamie in the next few racing weeks. Keep on plugging...

Press Release: Building Champion Cyclists in Florida

Announcing a new non-profit organization that is focusing on developing Florida Junior Cyclists: Building Champion Cyclists FL is a non profit organization created solely for the purpose of identifying and developing Junior Cyclist in all disciplines of cycling that have the potential talent to become a Professional Cyclist or be subjected to the Jr. Olympic or Olympic Coaching Committee. Aside from cycling, this program will assist these young men and women in developing healthy lifestyles, also the discipline and fortitude to strive to reach a monumental goal. All of the athletes are at racing age of 23 yrs or younger and from Florida and currently only mountain bike athletes have been selected to this program, for more info click on the link below...

http://buildingchampioncyclistsfl.net

"Rain Proof" Jacksonville treats riders to epic conditions

A very challenging course, that is usually dry and "rain proof" according to Goneriding's Dave Berger, offered riders a chance to use their bikes as flotation devices. Despite the wet conditions, there were some notables...

Greg Derosa (Team UBC) with another great finish in 3rd place in the 30+ Expert group and Robert Bounds (laserbikefit.com) with a 5th in the men's top Expert class. Congrats guys, keep it up!

Next round, Gainesville, FL.

On Your Mark Performance takes Team Time Trial at FSC Round #2 in Reddick, FL

Laserbikefit.com sponsored mountain bike racing team takes the Goneriding.com Team Time Trial! Racers Robert Bounds, Sean Smith, Matt Goforth, led by Tim Wisner cruised to a 1 minute advantage over the competition. 7 teams in attendance, 4-5 racers per team, took to the 7.5 mile course with On Your Mark Performance coming out on top with a time of 37.27! That...is...FAST!

Another OYM sponsored rider, Matt Hammond, performed exceptionally well in the 40-49 Expert division and took the win.

Our clients also performed well, with Carolyn Vanvurst (Trek / VW) taking 2nd in Women's Expert, and Greg Derosa ( UBC / MELITTA / MBI HOMES) also taking 2nd in the 30-39 Expert division. Congratulations to both of them!

On Your Mark is piling up the results!

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Vanvurst 3rd, Derosa 5th at FSC Round #1 in Tallahassee, FL

The Goneriding.com Florida State Championship has begun, as the first round in Tallahasse, FL is complete. On Your Mark Performance Center was there to participate and witness the action. We were represented well.

Congrats to our podium finishers! Trek/VW Southeast Carolyn Vanvurst took 3rd in the Women's Expert class, and UBC's Greg Derosa secured a 5th spot in the Men's 30-39 Expert category.

Riding strong are the father/son combo of Ricky Knight and Jamie Knight. Jamie in his first year at the Senior Expert level showed good speed and finished 15th in a talent deep field. Ricky finished 12th in the Men's 40-49 Expert category. Also mixing it up was Matt "Knobby" Goforth, finishing 8th out of 31 in the Men's 30-39 Sport category, and Julie Barker 7th in Women's Expert.

We are also proud to announce our 2007 FSC points team:

Robert Bounds - Semi-Pro/Senior Expert, Shawn Smith - Men's 30-39 Expert, Tim Wisner - Men's 30-39 Expert, Matt Goforth - Men's 30-39 Sport, and Julie Barker - Women's Expert

We are off to a great start with a win from Shawn, a 3rd from Tim, Julie 7th, and Matt collecting 8th place points. Robert had a mechanical that forced him out of the race.

During the awards ceremony there was a moment of silence to honor Sean Livesay an avid cyclist and sport racer who was killed earlier this month. Sean's USA Cycling profile, and blog. Rest in peace.

Again, congratulations to our clients, and to our points team for a great opening weekend!

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