Subject: Team Shell Cycling Newsletter - March 10, 2016
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:15:54 +0000

MS 150 April 16-17, 2016

Team Shell Riders – 219

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TEAM SHELL CYCLING DASHBOARD
Team Fundraising Goal

Collected to Date

% of Goal

Avg. Collected per Rider

Group Riding Skills  Compliance

Online Safety Training Compliance

$200,000

$60,507

30%

$276

146-66%

61 – 28%105 – 42%

Dear Team Shell Cyclists,

We finally got some much needed rain.  Hopefully it will all be gone before your ride on Saturday.  Let the bluebonnets grow!!! .

So far Team Shell has only 64 riders that have raised $400 or more. Take a look at the leader board below.  Let’s get “cranking” on our fund-raising this week.  I know that you can do it.

Only 61 of Team Shell have completed the online safety training.  We need 100% of our riders to complete this action.
It takes only about 10 minutes, do it now.  LINK<http://biketxh.nationalmssociety.org/site/R?i=VFofAHdnAxkMp6RNRcCjOA>

The city of Houston has released a plan for friendlier bike trails and would like to get your comments on the plan.  Click on the link below to see future cycling plans for Houston.

The Team Shell registration fee is now $80.  We still have about 70 riders who still need to pay.  Please get it in immediately.

In the News for this week

·         Safety First Message

·         Houston Bike Plan

·         Clay Walker’s Band Against MS bike ride sponsored by Shell

·         Get your team registration fee in

·         Team Safety Training course – March 20th

·         Packet Pick Up Begins - $400 minimum due at packet pick up

·         Fundraising Leaderboard

·         This week’s training rides

·         Mandatory online safety course

·         Bike Inspections

·         Handy Links

SAFETY FIRST MESSAGE:   Proper Hydration

Coach Alan Bazard – Shell Safety Coordinator

Proper Hydration (drinking water) while cycling, is important for a safe and successful ride, regardless of distance.  Hydration is the primary factor in controlling your body temperature and the key to long distance riding in the heat.  When hydration is properly managed, you avoid cramps, heat exhaustion, and worse – heat stroke.    It’s the most important part of exercising outdoors.  This is true whether you are riding 10 miles or 100 miles.

HYDRATE!  HYDRATE!  HYDRATE!

Before the Ride

Proper Hydration starts several days before a ride.  You should be drinking 8-10 glasses of water a day for at least 3 days leading up to a planned ride.  This is called “Starting with the Tank Full.”  One thing about hydration is that it is almost impossible to catch up during a ride.  If you get behind in drinking water / sport drink, it’s difficult to consume enough water to avoid dehydration effects (loss of sweat, overheating, heat exhaustion, etc.).

During the Ride

With the TANK FULL, it’s vitally important to maintain hydration during a ride.  You should be consuming at least 1 water bottle full of water or sports drink every 10-15 miles.  More if the temperatures are over 85 degrees.  You should be finishing off the last swallows of your bottle as you are pulling into a rest stop.  Most riders carry 2 water bottles on the bike.  These can be both water, or one with water, and one with sport drink.  Camel Bak and other back pack type hydration systems are helpful for carrying larger quantities of water.  It’s a rider’s choice on which type of system to use (bottles or pack).  Be sure to refill and top off your water / sport drink before leaving a rest stop.

After the Ride

After finishing a ride of any distance, continue to drink water.  You need to first replace lost fluids from sweat and exercise.  Drinking water at the same rate of 8-10 glasses a day for 2-3 days after a long ride helps the body flush built up lactate acid from the muscles.  This improves recovery and reduces muscle soreness.

For questions or more information on Hydration and Electrolytes, contact Coach Alan – [email-masked]

Public comment sought on Houston Bike Plan draft
The City of Houston released the draft Houston Bike Plan for community feedback, the next step in the City's efforts to help make Houston a safer, healthier, and more accessible bicycle-friendly city. The Bike Plan integrates with the ongoing Bayou Greenways project and identifies additional bike facilities to safely access these attractive bikeway corridors from more neighborhoods.
Once fully implemented, the Plan will triple the existing bikeway miles and provide six times more high comfort bikeways miles than what exists now.
The Plan is the result of significant public engagement. The City and its partners sought input at over 70 community meetings and events. The project received over 1,000 public comments and nearly 3,000 online surveys were completed.
With the draft Plan complete, the City is seeking feedback from Houstonians. The Planning and Development Department will present the draft Plan at Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Community Meetings for each Council District.
The public comment period closes April 11, 2016. The City will then modify the draft Plan based on the feedback received from the community.
Visit the website at houstonbikeplan.org<http://www.houstonbikeplan.org/> for more information and to let us know what you think. For questions or comments, please email [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>.

Clay Walker’s Band Against MS Ride – Team Shell will use this ride as our pre-MS150 team training ride.  Make plans to ride now.
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2016
Shifts: 5:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.; 10:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

New Location: Golf Club of Houston, home to the Shell Houston Open
5465 Wilson Road
Humble, TX 77396

Project Details: Shell and Motiva volunteers will support the numerous efforts at the bike ride. Tasks include registration, parking assistance, T-shirt distribution, gear check and luggage assistance, and lunch assistance.

Volunteer Registration: www.seeuthere.com/2016BAMS<http://www.seeuthere.com/2016BAMS>

Additional: Children must be 15+ to participate as a volunteer.
Bike Riders: Registration for the ride is currently underway and closes on March 26, 2016.

Please click here<https://events.com/r/en_US/registration/clay-walker-band-against-ms-ride-humble-march-10463> if you’re interested in riding in this event.​ ​

2016 Team Shell MS150 riders – Team Fee is now up to $80
We still have about 70 riders who still need to pay. Please get this in to me now.  These funds pay for the tents in LaGrange.  Please get your fee in this week as I need to pay for the tents in LaGrange by next Friday.

We have aligned with the Shell Employees Club (SEC) to handle our financial administration going forward. SEC can only take cash or check.  Please don’t send cash in the mail.  If you would like to pay by cash, please get in touch with me to make arrangements.

Thank you for your support!

Mail a check ($80 till March 1st), made out to Shell Employees Club to:

150 N. Dairy Ashford

Bldg. E – 0238 A

Houston, TX  77079

c/o Team Shell – Mark Poindexter

Team Shell Safety Training

We will have 2 more safety skills training classes scheduled.  Please see the dates and times below and save the date on your calendars now.  Classes are held on Sunday afternoons at our Shell Woodcreek campus.  We have our second class this Sunday.  The cost of our Team Shell Training is included in your Team registration fee.  If these remaining dates are not convenient, you are still responsible to get your training completed from one of the MS sponsored classes.

           Team Shell Cycle Safety Training Course Sign Up – CLICK HERE<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X5KH2W8>

All Cycling Safety Classes for Team Shell will be held at our Woodcreek Campus on Sunday afternoons from 2 – 5 PM.

·         March 20th     Basic Group Riding Skills – This is the last free Team Safety Class.  If you still need to take a class and can’t make this one then you will

                            need to take one of the community classes in the link below.

If these dates are not convenient for you then please schedule yourself in one of the community bike safety courses list on the MS website.  Expect to pay $30 for a community bike safety skills class.   These classes fill up quickly, do not procrastinate. CLICK HERE<http://biketxh.nationalmssociety.org/site/R?i=uRb0rILCc3jP-_Img4-RMw>

MS 150 Ride Packet Pick-Up

·         Packets only given out for those riders who have met the $400 minimum; we do count matching forms and will give credit if we have the forms in our hands.

·         No need to send waivers or bring them to this packet pick-up. Person picking up the packets will sign the roster. Only need notarized waivers of any underage riders on the team if picking their packets up.

·         Can turn in money as well

Do I have to attend the Packet Pickup?
YES! Every rider must attend a Packet Pickup and collect a Rider Packet. The rider does not need to be present to pick up a rider packet; a designated representative can pick up a rider's packet for them by completing a Rider Packet Acknowledgment Form<http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/DocServer/TXH_2013_BP_MS_150_-_Rider_Acknowledgment_Form.pdf?docID=61713> (available at Packet Pick Up).

To participate in the 2016 BP MS 150 and to receive a Rider Packet, each registered cyclist MUST turn in the required minimum fundraising. All non-credit card donations should be submitted during Packet Pick-Up in the form of personal/business checks, cashier's check, or money order (please do not bring cash convert any cash donations to check/money order). The BP MS 150 is a fundraising event and all donations to the National MS Society are tax-deductible.

Packet Pick-Up Schedule

Monday, March 28, 2016
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
1120 South Lamar Boulevard
Austin, Texas 78704
12:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Map<https://goo.gl/maps/4cYEhwhU1JQ2>

Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Memorial Park
6501 Memorial Drive (South Picnic Loop and Memorial Drive)
Houston, Texas 77007
11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Map<http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/DocServer/TXH_2016_BP_MS_150_-_Packet_Pick-Up__Memorial_Park.pdf/1030327682?docID=80193&verID=1>

*Friday, April 15, 2016
Omni Westside Hotel Expo
13210 Katy Freeway
Houston, Texas 77079
2:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Map<https://goo.gl/maps/SgxJUbwnKv22>

*Last opportunity to pick up your rider packet. Be sure to visit the BP MS 150 Official Bike Stores at the Expo to pick up any last minute items you may need for event weekend.

Fundraising

Thank you for all of you that are doing in outstanding job at fundraising.  Team Shell is one of the top fund raising teams due to your efforts!
                           Top Fund Raisers to Date

$3,000 +

$900 +

Todd Nunnally

Minhtuan Nguyen

$2,000 +

Lorena Derington

Chris Russell

Michael Lombardi

Todd Jones

$800 +

$1,000 +

Kathryn Bateman

Allen Broyles

Bruce Johnson

Michele O'Keefe

Kate Prather

Courtenay Clifford

Christopher Robinson

Jim Pirnik

$700 +

Ramon Berrocal

Haley Chilek

Billy Euell

Tracy Carroll

Ramon Berrocal

Sarah Koehl

Ripan Kapoor

This Week’s Training Rides:

·         Ready2Roll Training Series – Must be registered with R2R organization to participate in this training series.

Sat. March 12th                8:00 AM          R2R #8                                  Fayetteville, TX                                  43, 60 mile routes

·         Community Bike Rides – If you are not registered to train with the Ready2Roll series, here are some well-organized local bike rides that are popular.

            Sat. Mar 12th               9:00 AM          Pedal Thru the Pines<https://www.bikereg.com/pedalthrupines>               Bastrop, TX                                         24, 40, 70 mile routes

            Sat. Mar 12th               9:00 AM          B-GeO Magnolia Miles<http://magnoliamiles.org/?page_id=6>           Magnolia, TX                                             25,36,53,64 mile routes

            Sun. Mar 20th              7:30 AM          Tour de Houston<http://www.houstontx.gov/tourdehouston/index2.html>                     Houston, TX                ride maps<http://www.houstontx.gov/tourdehouston/2016routemap.pdf>        20, 45, 70 mile routes

                Sat. Mar 26th               8:00 AM              Clay Walker’s BAMS<http://www.bandagainstms.org/bamsride2016.html>              Humble, TX                                         20, 35, and 65 miles

Online MS 150 Safety Training Quiz
We are up to 62 riders that have taken the online safety quiz so far.  For the 28% of you that have taken the online training – Thank you!  We now need the other 72% to step up and carve out about 10 minutes of your day to complete this.  This is a mandatory activity for Team Shell to complete the online bike safety quiz.  Click Take the Safe Cycling Challenge<http://biketxh.nationalmssociety.org/site/R?i=VFofAHdnAxkMp6RNRcCjOA>

MS 150 Bicycle Safety Inspections

Not only does your body need to be in the best shape possible for the BMS 150 but your bike should be finely tuned and road worthy as well. To ensure your bike is in the best shape please take it, along with your clip-less cycling shoes, to one of the BP MS 150 Official Bike Stores for a FREE thru April 12 for a professional safety inspection. Pedal inspection is a critical component of the overall safety inspection, so don’t forget your clip-less cycling shoes.

Once your bike passes the safety inspection you and your bike will be awarded a BP MS 150 Safety Inspection Sticker that you’ll proudly display on the stem of your bike to show your safety focused and eligible for FREE labor (parts and materials are extra) if you are in need of mechanical repairs during the BP MS 150.

Locate a Bike Store<http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?fr_id=27003&pg=informational&sid=13228>

Handy Links

·         Register for Team Shell<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/37JQWSN> – We will close registration on March 11th

·         First Time Riders<http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?fr_id=27003&pg=informational&sid=13237>

·         MS150 Safety and Fundraising Requirements<http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?fr_id=27003&pg=informational&sid=13231>

·         EasyMatch User Guide<https://secure1.easymatch.com/shellgive/resources/General.Public.File10.pdf>

·         MS 150 Official Bike Stores<http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?fr_id=27003&pg=informational&sid=13228>

Make it a great weekend. Enjoy the sunshine and remember, while out on the roads be courteous to other riders, motorists and the communities you’re riding through.

Be Well and Be Safe!
Mark Poindexter
Shell Health – U.S. Wellness Manager
Tel: +01 832 337-2149