Hey- It's that time of the year- Check the Events Calender for details on the End-of -the-Year Dinner and get-together scheduled for October 25th at the Gold Eagle Restaraunt.

There are two rides going off tomorrow:

Goodwin State Park - Short, Fast, Muddy, Rocky @ 8:30AM

Bluff Point - Groton - Beginner Pace, also likely muddy :) @9AM

Just a friendly reminder that the bow hunting season is in session so make sure you are wearing orange if you are mountain biking now!  CT has no hunting on Sundays, but I believe RI does, so just be safe and keep your vest with your riding gear now.

The Ride That Became a Race, a Challenge and a Victory
Under a beautiful blue sky with cooling temperatures that reminded one more of fall than summer, the First DKH / Deary Memorial Bike Ride established itself as a new addition to the Deary event, hosting over 150 area cyclists.  The ride, named in honor of Cathy Deary, the youngest of Tom and Teddy’s children, started at JD Coopers on Park Road, Putnam, and wound 27 miles about the city of Putnam through Thompson, Woodstock, Killingly and back to JD Coopers.
Starting as a group, the recreational riders, mixed in with the velo club cyclists, began at 9:15 heading south toward Attawaugan Crossing before heading north and west around the city.
Though billed as a “ride”, the lead cyclists paced the velo clubs to a 1:20 finish back to JD Coopers, surprising the ride organizers with their strong and quick return to the staging area at Super Winch.  Tally master Pastor Steve Poudrett had to chase the finishers back into the staging area to get names and numbers.  The official, “unofficial”, velo club tally gave the first returning team prize to a strong new velo team from “Bicycle Concepts” in downtown Putnam.  Second team in, “Woodstock Cyclist”, a group of 50ish friends competing for the first time, astounded the organizers and the crowd with their strong finish, to be followed by a combined “Quinebaug Valley Velo /Danielson Adventure Sports” team.  Almost all velo club riders finished within a 10 minute span. 
First rider in was Ben Stone, super tech from “Bicycle Concepts”.  First female rider in with the “DAS / QV Velo” team was Liz Allen.  Both received a certificate for a well deserved sports massage from Paul Haveles at Integral Massage Management.
Because this was a fundraising event, Don Dauphinais, owner of and team rider at Danielson Adventure Sports donated a bicycle to the “team” raising the most pledge money.  That team was the “Woodstock Cyclists”, which as a group raised over $1250 in pledges.
 Coming in second on the pledge tally was Team “Quinebaug Lawn”, with the two team members, Tracey Scraba and Susan Johnston raising $600. 
Longmeadow Automotive raised over $300 just on the cycling team alone.  Over the years Longmeadow Automotive runners and walkers, with Karyn                      Di Bonaventura, have raised many thousands of dollars for the Walk and Run, as they did again this year.
A strong participation was also noted for Team “Wendy’s Place”,  and also by a very special group of women with the “QV Special Olympics Cycling Team” who completed the Lollypop Ride, coming into the staging area together sporting their team t-shirts and receiving congratulations on a great ride from Chas Anderson, and Don Dauphinais, cycling event organizers.  We hope they’ll return next year with a bigger team!
Plans are already underway for an expanded DKH / Deary Memorial Cycling event for August 2010.

Hey QVVelers,   Back at you again. 
In the chance I've been remis in informing you of another Ride---Please consider this one.  Plainfield Rec. Center does a "Toys for Kids" program for Christmas (I know it seems far, far off, but they get hurt with all the big guns advertising their programs about the holidays). 
 
Last year I was able to raise an "extra" $500 from family solicitations to help the Rec. program buy clothes for 39 kids at Christmas time.  Somehow the social worker over-looked them / misplaced their names and then found them at the last minute!
 
The bike ride entry fee ($15 and a new un-wrapped toy), will go to the Rec. Ctr.'s "Toys for Kids" and "Gramies Kids" (benefiting children with autism).
 
Come on down to ride if you can.  The rides spin west from Plainfield onto Rts. 169 and 97, one going down toward Norwich to Baltic and returning via Scotland and Pomfret.  Great smooth, fast roads!  Hope to see you there!
 
PS Burgers and fixin's post ride!   Chas

Take a look at the results of QVV team members!

Take a look at the upcoming events sponsored by DAS and supported by DAS and QVV members!