[Sportsandrec] Missing the Usual Suspects and a note for NashvilleRiders

[Ashley Bramlett]

The list is just quiet.  Good info you shared.  Hope someone in Tenisee can 
use it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thornbury, Kelly" <kthornbury at bresnan.net>
To: <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:21 AM
Subject: [Sportsandrec] Missing the Usual Suspects and a note for 
NashvilleRiders


> Either my email is messed up, or the usual list suspects are unusually 
> quiet...So, is anybody up to anything good/bad or 
> constructive/destructive?
>
> For riders in the volunteer state, I've recently come across a group in 
> the Nashville area pairing blind stokers for tandem rides. Les Wooldridge, 
> my captain (or is it "I'll be his stoker..." since it is his bike) next 
> week in Colorado, says the group organizes rides almost weekly, and they 
> currently have about eight tandem captains available. The contact for this 
> group is Ricky Jones, who I think is the executive director of the 
> Tennessee Association of Blind Athletes, and his email is 
> tnaba at bellsouth.net.
>
> Les also mentioned that he and a few others from this group are throwing 
> around the idea of a website to pair captains and blind stokers 
> nationwide, so anyone interested in sharing their "captain stash," start 
> pulling out those business cards and scraps of contact info. The website 
> idea is still in the "wouldn't it be nice" stage, but could be a valuable 
> asset for a national (or even international) tandem team pairing, or when 
> you've traveled to a convention or some other meeting and you need a 
> "cyclo-fix."
>
> Would love to stay and chat, but in preparation for Colorado Springs, I 
> have three training rides to get in today, and I have to check out my new 
> arm and leg warmers...Think my 80s pink "Flashdance" knit leg warmers will 
> be acceptable in the peloton?
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