Thanks for the responses! The school program would be geared towards fitness and not competition. The bikes would not need to be a tri bike, in fact most youth coaches prefer children stay away from that type of bike. Road bike frame and even mountain bike frames with slicks on them would work for this type of program.
All thoughts are welcome,
Tara
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Austin Amos aamos1977@gmail.com wrote:
Many of the co-ops have an "earn-a-bike" program where the kids are students in a course to build a bike if their own. The addition of a training or competitive outlet for their use of the said bike would be a benefit to both programs (earn-a-bike and training).
What does everybody else think? Please "weigh in" here with your comments.
Austin Amos Sent from my iPod
On Oct 7, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Tara windshifts@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I work at a National Governing Body, USA Triathlon, and I am working on
youth programming. As of right now the program is an awareness program. The thought is to bring a coach into schools to introduce triathlon to the kids.
A next step, down the road, would be to bring a multisport curriculum
into the Physical Education programs. One major hurdle to this would be equipment.
Now my question to the listserv- would bike co-ops be interested in being
involved in such a program by way of donating bicycles and hosting a cycling safety educational component?
I'd appreciate any thoughts on the subject.
Thanks!
Tara McCarthy
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