Merrymeeting
Wheelers Bicycle Club (MWBC)
Midcoast
Triathlon Club (MTC)
Toni Gatti, the V.P. of
Operations for Waterfront Maine has offered us a space in Fort Andross for
winter indoor cycling.
The space will be rented to
us for a nominal fee which will cover utilities. The rent will be month to month from November
through April.
If you so choose, you will
be able to leave your bike and wind trainer in an adjacent room between
sessions.
The cost will be $10 a month per
person.
Schedule
Initially, the schedule
will be:
05:30 AM, Monday, Wednesday
and Friday;
06:00 PM, Tuesday and
Thursday; and
08:00 AM – Noon, Sundays.
It is of utmost importance
that our group activities take place outside Ft. Andross’ business hours due to
the parking crunch. Expansion of the
schedule outside business hours is no problem.
Location and Parking
Our indoor cycling space is
located on the west side of Ft. Andross, under and behind the Flea Market.
To reach the space, drive
on the road between the parking lots and turn into the small driveway across
from ‘Something’s Fishy’ and go down behind Fr. Andross.
Parking is on the river
side of the parking lot as the spaces on the building side are reserved for
other tenants.
Keys
Tony will give us a number
of keys, which we’ll distribute among the group leaders.
Since there will be audio-visual
equipment, bikes, trainers and assorted gear in the space, we’ll need to have
strict adherence to a lock-up policy.
Tony says they have no
security issues at Ft. Andross.
Disclaimer
We will all need to sign a
disclaimer with Waterfront Maine and MTC/MWBC before we start winter indoor
cycling.
Group Leaders/Workouts
The initial concept is to
have instructors or group leaders for most sessions. In that case, the group
leader will structure the workout as Doug and Jim have done in the past. Other
sessions will be built around the ‘Spinervals’ Indoor Cycling Workout Series
and the group leaders’ primary responsibility will be to pop the tape in.
Sunday’s endurance workout
could be facilitated with movies, Tour de France tapes, etc.
The idea is to balance our
informal (laid back) and social workouts with enough structure to insure
everyone has a valuable workout.
Towels
Each cyclist should have a
small towel to drape over his or her bike and/or a large towel to protect the
floor and be used for stretching and floor exercises.
Gear Policy
We have the opportunity to
leave gear in storage areas within our space.
This includes bikes, wind trainers and miscellaneous items. We ask that if you are leaving shoes, towels,
clothing, DVDs, etc., that they be placed in a plastic bin labeled with your
name and placed in the designated storage area.
At the end of each session, we’ll need to move our bikes into an
adjacent designated space.
Fort Andross Tenants
Tony has asked that we
invite his tenants to participate in our scheduled classes and that, based on
demand, we offer a ‘tenant only’ session a couple times a week during business
hours. Group leaders will need to integrate the tenants and other ‘newbies’
into our sessions at their level of training.
This is a great opportunity
for us to promote our clubs and encourage biking.