SIRV

In addition to just racing our bikes this year, Chemstar p/b UHC is also participating in a number of community outreach programs to try to give back a little while racing our bikes. The community outreach branch of our team is known as SIRV-which stands for Supporting Integrity and Responsibility in Velosport. We're starting by promoting cycling and health with over 40 visits this year to various schools, with a a focus on under-served communities. We're also running a helmet donation program and running several larger events at some bigger races. In the future, we hope this program grows along with our team, and that we can make an impact as we travel to other countries to race. It'd be great if everyone with a facebook account could look up SIRV on facebook to stay up to date with what we're doing, and go to Chemstarcycling.com and click on the link to SIRV as the website gets up and running.

Some of these photos may be a double-post but they are from our first school visit to the St. Andrew's School in Nassau during the Tour of the Bahamas.

Heading South

Team Chemstar might be a brand new team, but at the beginning of March, we will start our first UCI International stage race at the Rutas de America in Uruguay. I'm really excited to be on the roster for this race, and to visit South America for the first time in my life. It looks to be a tough race with Pro-Continental teams from Europe attending as well as the top South America competition. It's a true Pro stage race held over 6 days. Myself, Shane Braley, David Guttenplan, Curtis Winsor and Coulton Hartrich will all be representing Chemstar presented by United Healthcare. So Maconites, if you see me flying down the road glued to the bumper of a car or scooter, you know why.

roll out

Team Chemstar rolled out the season at Tour of the Bahamas not too long ago. No spectacular results form yours truly but great training and some time in the sunshine. We also did a school visit as part of our community outreach program, something I'm really excited about this year. Overall we had an amazing time and I'm really excited about the coming season. At the moment I'm just building fitness and looking towards San Dimas, Redlands and Battenkill after a few more local races. Please check out chemstarcycling.com and look for us on facebook to see what we're up to this year.