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MTBA Level 1 Coaching Courses

MTBA have announced their Level 1 Coaching courses for 2015.

This is a 2 day course, aimed at people who want to work with Clubs and assist MTB riders develop skills, fitness and racing tactics for State or National competition.

Adelaide is scheduled for 14th and 15th February 2015. The cost is $390.

There are also pre-requisites for the course, make sure you check them out (and fulfil them) before registering for the course.

For more information, check out MTBA Coaching page.

There is also an information page available here.

Event registration is available here.

If you have any questions about these courses, please direct them to MTBA – sport@mtba.asn.au.

Info on this weekends race to come………

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Wanted: Media Coordinator and Timers

Evan James has finally managed to find a good excuse to part from the club – he’s succesfully gained employment with MTBA as the Junior Development Coordinator. Evan has been a committee member with AMBC for the last 8 years, heavily involved as Race Director for most of those years. Last year he switched to the Media Coordinator position and took charge of the clubs Facebook page.

AMBC would like to thank Evan for his dedication in assisting the club throughout the years and we look forward to working with him in his new role as the Junior Development Coordinator for MTBA.

As a result, the Media Coordinator position is up for grabs. If you feel you’ve got the lingo to handle the clubs website posts (in collusion with P’An-Tau), Facebook page and the Instagram account – shoot an email to info@ambc.asn.au. The technical side of the website is handled by Tom Bamman, so you only need to know how to “make words awesome” to full-fill this role.

The other position the club is looking to build on is on the day race timers. There’s ample information on this page, but basically we are looking for people to watch the timing computer while the race is on. If you think you can perform this role, please email timing@ambc.asn.au and we can sort out a suitable training time.

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AMBC EOY Pony Party entry reminder

Noticed a slight hitch this morning and entries were down! Fear not! The problem has been rectified and entries are indeed open until 10am Sat (tomorrow) morning!

Don’t forget that if you’ve raced in 3 or more AMBC endorsed races this years you’re in the draw to win the Giant bike – proudly supplied by Giant Cycling World Adelaide.

Team and individual registrations are available – if you register as an individual we’ll rally some forces to help you raid the Forrest of Doom – it’s dangerous to go alone!

If you have any dramas with registration let timing@ambc.asn.au know. We can sort things out.

More info is available in the original post here.

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AMBC EOY Pony Express Party

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With less than a week to go before entries close for the end of year pony express party – here’s some info for the masses!

To finish the year off AMBC is hosting a Pony Express race at Victoria Park (Park 16) in the Adelaide Parklands – Forrest of Doom.

The race will be held on Sunday 7th Dec, sign-on from 9am and race start at 10am. Racing will last for aprox. 1.5 hours, with some prizes and a BBQ happening afterwards.

Pony Express is a team relay format of racing that requires each team to contain at least 1 junior or female rider. Each team member completes the required number of laps (usually 3-4 of a short course) and the first team to complete the laps is the winner. The race plate is the relay baton and must be transferred from rider to rider for each lap – AMBC encourages the use of your imagination when thinking of efficient ways to do this!

Transponders are not required for this race and race plates will be issued on the day.

Entry for adults is $15 and juniors $10. If you’re not an MTBA member, you will need a $20 day license as well. Registration is available here.

If you can’t form a team, but still wish to race, enter as an individual and we can allocate a team on the day.

Following the race, we will be raffling of a Giant Bike to anyone who has competed in three or more races throughout the year (includes GESA). Winners will need to be there to win the prize.

If you have any questions, please email timing@ambc.asn.au

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State Champs results are up

Preliminary results are up on the results page. They will be finalised at 6:00pm Wednesday. If you have any questions, please send an email to timing@ambc.asn.au

Thanks to David Knight and Evan James for laying out a good tough course. Apparently just over 1,000m of climbing for the 6 laps – I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge!

Thanks to all who volunteered to help out to make this race happen.

Next “race” is on the 6th Dec and will be a pony express – one junior and/or female required per team. No official timing and we will be drawing the raffle for the Giant Bike – two race entries throughout the year will get you in the draw, BUT, you have to be there to win it! More details to follow soon.