Have you signed up to volunteer, Rider Handbook, and rides this weekend

Team O-H-I-O Peloton Send Off is Tuesday, August 17th. 

This is a large event designed to raise money for our peloton. The money raised from this event can be used to help any of our teammates who have not reached their goal and, more importantly, fight cancer!

We need every member of Team O-H-I-O to sign up to help!

Please contact Martha Hicks (martha.hicks@osumc.edu) today to sign up to help!

Have you read your rider handbook? You should have received this from Pelotonia@Pelotonia.org.

Are you interested in joining some of your colleagues in the Pedal with Pete this Saturday, 8/14? We have teammates looking for a riding buddy for the 62 and 48 mile course!

Team O-H-I-O Peloton Send-off Celebration Invite

Team O-H-I-O Peloton send-off celebration

Please join University Advancement's Team O-H-I-O Peloton for a special Pelotonia send-off celebration. 4 – 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 17 At the Longaberger Alumni House 2200 Olentangy River Road The event features: Remarks from Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee An autograph session with Archie Griffin and President Gee (for donations) A silent auction Raffle tickets will be sold for bids on smaller items Auction items include Ohio State and Cleveland Browns football tickets, Clippers tickets, gift cards to Cameron Mitchell restaurants, "behind the scenes" tour of Ohio Stadium, and Archie Griffin's autographed bike used in his first-ever Pelotonia. All proceeds will benefit Team O-H-I-O peloton's fundraising efforts for Pelotonia, with 100 percent of all money raised benefiting Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. Team O-H-I-O is comprised of riders from the offices of University Development, University Communications and the Alumni Association. The Team O-H-I-O Peloton http://www.pelotonia.org/ride/team_profile.jsp?MemberID=48002

Rides this weekend and the Team O-H-I-O Celebration

Please check the calendar for rides this weekend. Let me know if you would like to add another ride.

Team O-H-I-O Celebration

We need you to volunteer to:

• Hand out free goodies for those who attend
• Sell raffle tickets ($5 ea. or $20 for 5 tickets)
• Watch the line for autographs
• Watch the smaller items auction room
• Come early for setup/Stay later for cleanup
• Etc.

This event is designed to raise money for Team O-H-I-O. 

As a member of the Team O-H-I-O, we need you to volunteer to make this successful. Please contact Martha Hicks (Martha.Hicks@osumc.edu) to volunteer.

Rides this weekend and Opening Ceremony information

Opening Ceremony Guests
Riders may bring one guest to the Opening Ceremony on Friday, August 20, 2010. If you have not submitted the name of your guest yet, please log onto your profile page and complete the appropriate field to submit your guest’s name on or before Friday, August 13, 2010. Your guest’s name will need to be listed in order for your guest to obtain entry. Please call 614-221-6100 with questions.



Rides this weekend
There are several rides this weekend, including a Prospect on Saturday and Sunday, and a 60 mile ride from Amanda to Logan and back. Check the calendar for more information.

New team member, 20th Anniversary of the James, and Fundraising tips for the final month

New Team Member
Please welcome Michael Pierson to our Team O-H-I-O. Mike is Diane Leesman's son-in-law.

20th Anniversary of the James
Tuesday, July 27, Noon-1:30 p.m.
OSU Medical Center Plaza
If interested or planning to attend, please contact Lindsey Gale

lindsey.gale@osumc.edu

Fundraising Tips for the Final Month
A few of your fellow riders have put together how they made their final push last year

Roland Kreml
Last year, in the last 30 days I sent updates about my training via email to a list of friends and family. This was a weekly update that would talk about my training adventures, but I also had a “thermometer” graphic of my current fundraising and my total goal of $1,000. By the week of the Pelotonia, I had less than half of that raised. In my final email before the ride I talked about the Pelotonia, how important the research was, and that 100% of all donations goes directly to funding cancer research. In that last week, my total fundraising jumped from less than $500 to over $1,100! Most gifts were in the range of $10 - $50. The key to fundraising for me was asking friends and family to support the James in honor of my ride, to let them know my goal, and how much I have raised.

This year I have a blog for my updates. On my blog I put information about my training as well as how my readers can help. I would think that people would become bored with my training updates, but I get many people telling me that they enjoy my blog. I also know people are reading because I can see the amount of traffic coming to my blog (I'm a techie- I do these things!)


Karen Longbrake
My approach has been similar and I have already surpassed my goal. I created a distribution list of friends and family including those that donated last year and I sent an appeal. I heard a little after the first appeal but donations really started to come in after the 2nd email. I changed up my email a little and made sure to let folks know that a gift of any size was appreciated. I recently took advantage of the link via Pelotonia to connect their icon to my facebook status page and so that has gone out to many more folks than the original email. I added a line about 2 weeks ago regarding my Miami, Michigan and Penn St tickets offering a donor their choice of 2 tickets to one of those games if they make a gift of $1000. I think I have a taker as of yesterday. It is a guy I don’t know but he is friends with my sister from facebook and saw it on her status updates. If I get that gift I will sign up for the high roller status because I am at $2000 right now. I figure I can eeek out a few more bucks to get to $4000. I think the key is to not feel bad or uncomfortable about “Asking” most people can afford $10 and that is what makes the difference those gifts of $5 and $10!! I will definitely send out a 3rd email to my group thanking those that have made a gift and letting the others know it is not too late.


Vince McGrail
My fundraising has been closely tied to my family and hometown friends, because it has focused on my two sisters. I emailed a list of about 25 friends and family to start, personalizing each email, with the body of the email mostly the same, explaining why I’m riding with a link to my page. I also posted info on Facebook – updating friends about my rides, number of days until Pelotonia, and information about my family (since I was riding for my sisters). I sent a reminder email to all the week before Pelotonia, then an email the night before. I had raised about $800 toward my goal of $1,500 with a week to go to the event last year. In the two days before Pelotonia I had over $1,500 come in and then another $1,000 – mostly from people I hadn’t talked to in years in the weeks following – people I knew had emailed others and shared via Facebook. Don’t underestimate the power of a simple ask – and then follow up as people get busy and forget. As the day gets closer, media coverage goes up, and it’s a good time to remind people to give in the few weeks before the ride.

After the ride is also a good time to thank people and remind others that they can still give to support your ride. I raised a lot after Pelotonia last year – I posted a personal video on YouTube about the ride and linked to it in my follow up thank you emails.

This year, I started by emailing all of the 80 who gave to me last year, to thank them again and ask for support this year. I also started a blog, and have posted updates on Facebook and on twitter. I’ll do another email to 2009 donors two weeks before Pelotonia. Pelotonia has two new Facebook apps to help – one is a Pelotonia app to add a tab to your profile page, and the other is to share your page on FB, with an update of your goal and amount raised. They just posted this on the Pelotonia site in the last few weeks. Posting on FB reminds people what you’re doing and why, so when you email them they are more likely to respond.

Where the money goes, Welcome new riders

Where the money goes

Have you been asked what happened to the money raised by last year's Pelotonia? Eugenia Maish has helped us with answering this question. The following link is the plan for the money raised in last year's Pelotonia.

http://include.pelotonia.org/pelotoniaplans_for_funds_allocation.pdf

Welcome New Riders!

Please welcome Archie Griffin, Melinda Swan, and Lisa Routt to Team O-H-I-O!

Team picture from the Team O-H-I-O meeting

Events this week, note for 180 milers, and jersey news

Several events this week.

• Tuesday, July 13th:   Pelotonia Training and Injury Prevention Event (FREE!)
• Friday, July 16th:      Mayor's Twilight Tour and Bike Swap 
• Saturday, July 17th:  Steve Barbour Memorial Tour

Note for people riding 180 miles

• Anyone riding the 180 needs to update their profile to make their roommate request by next Thursday, July 15th.  
• Anyone who does not select his or her roommate(s) by this date will be placed randomly and we will not be able to make changes once OU has confirmed the assignments.

Jerseys

• Don't forget to send Kelly Hebblethwaite-Johnson if you want a jersey, and the size
• Also send Kelly the names that you would like included on the jersey. 
• Deadline is Tuesday, July 13th!

Team O-H-I-O meeting at 11:30 and training ride at 6PM Thursday, July 8th!

Training Ride
Team O-H-I-O is riding 20 miles from 1480 W. Lane Ave through Upper Arlington tomorrow at 6PM. Please join us!

Team Meeting
Hello fellow Team O-H-I-O members. The planning team would like you to join us, Tom Katzemeyer, David Wade, and Peter Weiler to talk about our Peloton, fundraising, and training on Thursday, July 8^th from 11:30 – 12:30. Location is in the Mt Leadership room at Longaberger.

Sorry, we cannot provide lunch. The agenda of the meeting is below.

Please RSVP to Patty Dascenzo (Dascenzo.3@osu.edu) by Tuesday, July 6^th

Thanks,

The Team O-H-I-O Planning Team

Agenda

·         Welcome

·         Jersey

o   Cost

o   Design

·         Training rides and tips

·         Fundraising Tips

o   Hear from other riders how they raised money

·         Logistics of the Pelotonia event

o   Friday’s registration and bike drop-off

o   Saturday’s start

o   Getting home

§  Bus

§  Family pickup

·         Team photo

o   We will take a team photo at the end of the meeting

Westerville ride this weekend

Team O-H-I-O is riding the Westerville route again this Sunday, July 4th. There are 2 routes. A 16 and 25 mile. Kelly and I are planning to ride the 16 mile loop then the 25 mile loop.

Join us at 8 at the Hoover Dam Park. We will roll at 8:15.

Thursday rides starting July 8th and Welcome New Members

Starting July 8th, Team O-H-I-O will be hosting weekly rides.

     Every Thursday we will meet at 6PM at 1480 Lane Ave (University Development building) 

     We will start riding at 6:15.
     The loop is 20 miles through the neighborhoods of Upper Arlington. 

     Click here to see the route. 

Welcome new riders to our team

     Joe Irvin: Development

     Leigh Briggs: Development

Somehow I miscounted in a previous post and we now have 31 riders!

Do you have a friend or family member who wants to ride in Pelotonia '10 and is not a member of a Peloton? You can invite them to join ours! It's not too late.

Team O-H-I-O Training ride Sunday, 6/27 @ 8AM

Team O-H-I-O is riding 23 miles in Westerville on Sunday. This is a marked route on the back roads of Westerville starting from the Hoover Dam Park.

Meet at the Hoover Dam Park at 8 and we will roll out at 8:15.

If you want 50, you can join me a second time around the route

Team O-H-I-O Training rides this weekend

There are two training rides that I know members of Team O-H-I-O will be riding this weekend.

The first is the Pelotonia Cycling Fair tomorrow. Karen Longbrake and I are riding the 15 mile route. Click here for more information.

The other training ride is Sunday. We are riding the Prairie Grass Trail from London to Xenia - 60 miles!.This is a straight path, so you can make it shorter if you want just by heading back before Xenia.  Click here to see more information. You'll see that the suggested parking is behind the senior center. Don't worry about the detour off 42 during your drive it will get you back on 42 in time (Thanks for that note Emily!)

Welcome New Members to Team O-H-I-O

Please welcome new riders to our Team O-H-I-O

Karen Patterson: University Communications
Melissa Weber: University Communications
Shelly Hoffman: University Communications
Lindsay Margaroli: University Development
Vince McGrail: University Development
Mollie McGrail: (Vince's better half)
Steve Chaykowski: University Development

We now have 30 riders! Our goal is 50 riders as part of OSU's goal to send 1000 riders. Remember, alumni, donors, and family that you recruit count in OSU's totals!

1st Ever Pelotonia 10 Cycling Fair 6/19 9a - 2p

Saturday, June 19th 9am - 2pm (screenings start at 8am)

Free Bike Check-ups
Cycling Demonstrations
Practice Ride (15 & 25 miles)
Health Clinics
Your Plan for Health screenings
Prize Drawings (including an iPad) and Face Painting

If you have not heard about this, please see the below link
http://ced.osu.edu/pelotoniacyclingfair/index.html
Make sure to register for the fair and Your Plan for Health Screenings

OSU Sports Med invites you to attend the Pelotonia Training Seminar Series

OSU Sports Med invites you to attend the Pelotonia Training Seminar Series

These educational workshops are designed for those training to participate in Pelotonia. They include discussion and demonstrations of injury prevention, bike fitting, sports nutrition, cycling training tactics as well as basic bike mechanics and maintenance. Please see the links below to learn more about the next two training seminars.

Physiologic Training and Testing- Sunday, June 6^th , 3:00pm-5:00pm at COSI- Labs in Life exhibit. 

Nutrition for Endurance Athletes/ Indoor Training - Tuesday, June 8^th, 6:00pm-9:00pm at OSU RPAC.

Welcome New Members to Team O-H-I-O

Please join me in welcoming  the following people to Team O-H-I-O!

Lynne Bonenberger, Alumni Association
Tim Welsh, University Development
Tom Katzenmeyer, University Communications
Larry Bertolini, OIT

That makes 24 riders - almost halfway to our goal of 50 riders!

OSU RPAC/ARC rate for *all* Pelotonia riders

Any participants in Pelotonia can get memberships with the RPAC, but these memberships come at the Faculty/Staff Rate. These rates are:

$115 for the quarter
$77.50 for a half quarter (this price has already started for Spring Quarter and would be the price of each of the half quarters in the summer)


Also, participating in the race will enable any participant to get the same rates any affiliate of the RPAC gets for shorter passes:

$30 for a 15 consecutive-day pass
$60 for a 30 consecutive-day pass
$10 for a one-day pass
$15 for a weekend pass (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Thanks to Eugenia Maish for finding and sharing this information!

$100 Matching Gift

Register and raise at least $100 by June 30th and the OSU Medical Center will match with $100 contribution to your ride! Only applies to OSU staff

Training rides

Team O-H-I-O will be riding the Olentangy Greenway on Sunday starting at 8AM. This is a nice ride on a relatively flat route. See the calendar for more training rides from the Columbus Outdoor Pursuits (COP)

Ride Pelotonia. Cure cancer. Win a car.

OSU Staff that register to ride in the Pelotonia are eligible to win a car or a bicycle.

More information here

 Have you registered yet???