Slides from the meeting are here:
Major items:
MTB
Cyclocross
Track
Summer Camps
Caitlin's notes are here: PDF.
Joe's notes are as follows:
ECCC February Meeting February 20, 2011 Yale University [ Agenda ] - Overview of ongoing general initiatives. - Road season status, rules changes and updates. - MTB scheduling, rules changes, development ideas, women's MTB. - CX general discussion, calls for new organizers. - Track season general discussion and pre-planning. [ Road ] Columbia received small grant from NY LA for Intro coaches Addition to notes about downgrading: - Only applicable to new/hiatus racers - Similarly, Cat 4s who need to move to D should talk to Joe [ MTB ] Revisiting lift tickets - Promoters did well these down in 2010, following earlier discussion - Typical non-collegiate DH: Practice day + race about $80 w/ lift + Maybe over $100 w/ DS - Promoters should try to keep lift tickets under $30--35 + Double-ticket weekends to be strongly avoided Correction to slides: Endurance winner will take XC, STXC callups Controlling costs with venues - Running other races at MTB events is viable, talk to Joe & Sully - Don't need timing, reg, etc. from mountains - Do need safety plans, EMTs, etc. from mountains Gravity/DH overshadows endurance in many people's mind - Need to reduce rad/hardcore image - Stress endurance image to get those athletes in Intro races! - Beginner women and men could use easier, more accessible courses + On top of the clinics we're already doing - Could be hard at some venues, but most should be able to accomodate having an alternate course to run Intro race on - Run Women's A/B, current B race slot moved to Women's Intro + B racers do less laps in XC, same in STXC - Add Men's Intro Interested in promoting - UMass (Adam Gagne, adstock40@yahoo.com): Mt Snow or Plattekill - Lehigh (Thomas Surgnet, surgentt@gmail.com): Lehigh + Can do Sep 3/4, Sep 17/18, Oct 8/9, Oct 15/16, prefers Sep 17/18 - RPI (Pat Dunn, patrickdunn11@gmail.com): Plattekill + Prefer Oct 8/9 to coordinate with Plattekill race, could do any + George Olmer @ Plattekill leading outreach - UVM: Prefers Easterns - NU: Highland? + Slim should be returning to Highland, building XC trails [ CX ] Bill Palm stepping down as coordinator - Foolish notions of graduating and so on Steven Hopengarten willing to step in to lead scheduling, would like assistance, particularly with results - Planning on largely similar mix of large UCI and smaller events as per 2010 schedule (trying to avoid some of the extremely small) - Hoping to cover farther west into PA and NY Notes on collegiate promoted races: - Army: Needs better categories setup, wider courses, more attendance - Cornell: Great organization, better courses first year, good competition Need big UCI fields to have adequate competition for top riders - CycleSmart, NBX should *definitely* stay on schedule Effects of Nats moving to Jan 4--8? - Smaller races may spread out in schedule a bit; UCI set - Shouldn't start collegiate before November---MTB conflict, burnout Many fewer complaints this year about people not being able to reg - Effect of more smaller races Licenses not a huge deal in terms of barriers to racing - Most people have full licenses anyway - Put the word out more about it, get people thinking ahead of time - "Expanding" a collegiate license into a full license would be useful Need more guidance for new racers - Specific newbie areas on website, per-season tips + CX: Register early for races! Should do more to create collegiate scene, connect people at races - Collegiate/ECCC warmup tent for CX to pull people together - Social events @ CX races---host dinners during weekends, outside race - Run off course clinics and warm up laps, inviting all teams + Rutgers willing to lead on this New nats allocations per number of A racers per discipline - ECCC CX has a lot of people with B licenses doing nats... [ Track ] Nationals in Indianapolis, hosted by Marian - Sept 15--17 Charlie Hanlon <newidea_76@yahoo.com> (Kutztown) and Liz Marcello <elizabeth.marcello@gmail.com> (Columbia) interested in coordinating Outreach at tracks to students racing but not collegiately? [ Camps ] Need more over the summer to hook roadies into other disciplines + Particularly women Dartmouth interested in hosting MTB camp - Host housing at Dartmouth or condo at Kingdom Trails - Discount rate renting bikes? Rutgers interested in expanding August CX camp Coordinate with existing beginner's clinics for track days? Summer summit at Purgatory RR?