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Entries from March 2009

Check out the Tour of Ephrata road race from your computer

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Rich Ruoff, of the local All that is Good promotion company, is giving perspective racers a look at his new road course for nextmonth’s Tour of Ephrata. The video of the Middle Creek road race course, below, was uploaded onto youtube.com recently. The race will be held Saturday, April 25. It is the first of three […]

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Tags: Lancaster · races · cycling · sports

Local collegiate clubs off to a good season

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments

The Snapper, the Millersville University newspaper has an articlethis week about the MU cycling team. The 15-member club has six who are competing with other East Coast collegiate racers on the road. Mountain bikers, BMXers and cyclocross racers round out the club.
Last weekend, senior John Poterjoy took fifth in the road race at The Blue […]

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Tags: Lancaster · season · races · cycling · sports

T-Town passed over for Hall of Fame

March 26th, 2009 · No Comments

The Nashville Business Journal reported this week that Greensboro, S.C. and Davis, Calif. are the two cities of the short list for a new home for the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.
That leaves Trexlertown out of the running.
Trexlertown, home of the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, formerly the Lehigh Valley Velodrome, had put in a bid […]

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Tags: tourism · track · cycling

Sauder Easter Egg event to again include bike ride

March 18th, 2009 · No Comments

For the second year, the annual Sauder Easter Egg run and walk event will include a bicycle ride. The ride will be April 11, beginning at 8:30 a.m, in Lititz. 
As with last year’s inaugural ride, there are options to do 10 or 25 miles. New this year is a longer, 50-mile ride.
After the ride, participants […]

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Tags: charity · ride · cycling

Baldwins to lead cross-state active lifestyle ride

March 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Lancaster County’s most eligible bachelor, Dr. Andy Baldwin, and his father, former state Rep. Roy Baldwin, are planning a bicycle ride across Pennsylvania in October to promote activity for children.
The “X-PA Healthy Lifestyle Bike Ride” is intended as an educational sweep across the southern part of the state, using the Pennsylvania ‘S Route.’ The Baldwins will advocate for the prevention of […]

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Tags: Lancaster · ride · cycling · school

Pedal to Preserve registration opens

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Registration has opened for the 2009 Pedal to Preserve ride. The fund-raising event for the Lancaster Farmland Trust will be held Saturday, June. There will be six-mile, 20-mile and 51-mile rides.
More than 1,000 riders are expected to participate. Last year, more than $56,000 was raised for the preservation of Lancaster County farmland. The cost to […]

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Tags: recreation · charity · Lancaster · ride · cycling

Spin-A-Thon this Saturday

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Today is the last day to register for the LETSPIN Spin-A-Thon, being held at the Hempfield Rec Center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. This is the seventh year the event has been held. LETSPIN - Lancaster Events To Support People in Need - is holding the spinning event to benefit local families affected by […]

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Tags: spinning · Lancaster · cycling