Next pickup is scheduled for Saturday, April 26th from 2-4 pm.  Join us!

The Velo Vixens have adopted a section of Suck Creek Road in conjunction with TDOT’s Adpot a Highway program.  The Vixens are responsible for picking up trash along a  two mile stretch of road ending at Prentice Cooper.  January 26, 2008 saw 10 Vixens and Friends of Vixens helping to keep land clean.  Above you find Monica and Jackie gathering one of 38 bags of trash that were collected on that day.  Great work!

Its March, and race season has officially begun.  Vixens started out with a bang with Cat going to the Regions Bike Race in Albany, Georgia.  This was the first race in the GC women’s series which will split the Cat4 women from the ProAm women’s field.  Cat did well with a 3rd place finish in the time trial, 4th in criterium and 6th in the road race.

Watch for VeloVixens in Maryville this weekend as well!

This past weekend found Beth Travers competing in Knoxville at the Tomato Head Time Trials and Criterium. Beth placed third in the 30 K Individual Time Trial held Saturday and followed it up on Sunday with a 4^th in the Crit. Read the rest of this entry »

The Tsali Challenge was held on September 8^th and 9^th in Bryson City, NC.  The challenge consisted of a 3 mile lake paddle, 4.5 mile trail run and 12 mile mountain bike. 

Velo Vixen’s Cathi Cannon finished 4th and Carol Farmer finished 10^th in Saturdays Open Female Event. Sunday the course was run as a relay. Competing as Team Velo Vixen, Carol and Cathi teamed up with Enid Gonzalez and finished 3rd in female division. Visit Cathi’s website  bebackonmonday.com. for photos and her race report.

Mark your calender for Saturday, September 22, 2007 to test your fitness at our quarterly Time Trial.  Plan to arrive at 9:30 at Old Bethel Church in Chickamauga, Georgia. The church is located at 1250 Old Bethel Road.  This will allow you time to warm up before testing yourself by completing 2 laps of our 4.06 mile loop. 

Vixen Renee Queen completed her first day ………..93 miles!   According to Renee, “I am beat tonight, but we go another 90+ tomorrow coming from Tullahoma into Chattanooga.  Very exciting day!  The news was there this morning in Nashville along with a ton of other people.  It was awesome!”. 

 The Southeast team will be riding about 350 miles in 4 days. The ride started in Nashville Tuesday and will ending on Friday in Atlanta at the Cigna office in Buckhead. 

Four Jerseys were lined up at the start line for the Chattanooga Downtown Criterium, and only one of us, Beth Travers, had any previous experience with this particular kind of cycle racing.  I went into it with low expectations, in part because I’ve never done one, seen one, or anything and in part because it was a mixed field with some incredibly strong talent from all over Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and several other states.  For a first criterium to try, we picked a tough one, Read the rest of this entry »

On Sunday August 19 the inagural Booker T Mountain Bike Race was held at (surprise) Booker T State Park. I had  commited to help my friends that day with the event and thought, I am already out there, why not give the race a try.  Mind you that up  until that week I had two mtn bike rides under my belt for 2007.    But, like many good students I crammed that week and found myself spending  several evenings in the woods .  Read the rest of this entry »

Congratulations goes out to our own Joanna  Crooks who completed Ironman Loiuseville Sunday in a time of 15:37.37.   Way to go!