Arleigh Jenkins

Marketing agency background, specializing in interactive marketing and mining data to create stellar ROI. These days I'm back in the bicycle industry as the Southeast Rep for Quality Bicycle (QBP). Lover of interactive marketing, technology, bicycles, latte's & photography. My cycling persona is over http://BikeShopGirl.com. Where I test my theories, writing and photo skills to promote cycling and hone my marketing technique.

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Wed Nite Race 7.8.09

[gallery link="file" order="DESC"] Officially by the dates we are half way through the Wednesday Night MTB Series.  There was two rain outs, so by the numbers we aren't half way done yet. Last race I DNF'd.  Moving up to Sport was a crappy move on my part, twice as long of a track at the hardest course in the series - US National Whitewater Center. Okay, it's really not a hard trail.. but on a singlespeed, out of shape, dehydrated and on a pretty damn hot day.. the course sucks. Especially when you have to go around the whole thing twice.  So I quit, I rode slowly through the last half of the course after bonking with a co-worker.  Thankfully he was there to get me through the woods. That was two weeks ago, since I have actually ridden my bike, rode a mountain bike off road a couple times and done a little bit of unorganized/thought out training.  This week I had a mission to complete.  That is goal #1 this season, complete the Sport races.  Thankfully Stephanie stuck with me and got me through the course. Last, but not a quitter.  9 more races to figure out what Goal #2 is.

Good Morning

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A short, yet busy, week is slowly wrapping up.  One last day to work (today) and then I'm off Wednesdays through next Tuesday.  The purpose is to go home to Maryland, attend a wedding, and maybe get some bike riding in. (That's the goal atleast.)

There have been many changes in life recently.  All very good, nothing very major, and I'm excited to see what this summer will bring.  Hopefully more time with family, more time on the bike and continuing to push the bike industry around my region.  Starting June 29th I'll be back at the Cool Breeze location for many reasons.  A few were things that have been in the works since we opened the Trek Store 20 miles away.  Partly commuting time, lack of riding time, lack of family time but I also will be stepping into a larger purpose.  A role of high end fitting, more custom bike design and hopefully going to push the mountain bike/commuting niche in the Lake Norman area. In other news, I've changed the shops blog to something both stores can share.  Please update your shop blog URL to CoolBreezeCyclery.blogspot.com.

DontDriveDay.Org

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Tomorrow is DontDriveDay.org if you are in Charlotte utilize your bike, public transit or car pooling.  If you do, goto DontDriveDay.org and register. You could win some sweet prizes!  Right now it's just a PDF page so be warned dial up readers.

Busy Day Off

Wednesday is my day off, or should be.  The month of May is a crazy one and I'm doing my best to get the shop ready for it.  So far we've got : Go By Bike Month, a month long sale, group rides, demo days and a large Ladies Night Out. I'll let the flyers talk for themselves so I can go shower and get ready as it's race day today! (Yes I'm racing at Francis Beatty tonight)
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2009 Huntersville Kids Tri #1

I was quick to talk about lacrosse in my previous post and completely forgot to add in that the first Huntersville Kids Tri was Saturday evening.  121 kids were out in full force for the first race of the series and I'm stoked to say both the boys raced and did awesome! Drew finished 2nd by only 3 seconds off 1st!  We had a slight incident of tripping through the finish line.. We need to work on our swim and he'll be winning for sure next time. Matthew (the fish) came in 6th but looking at his splits he did well every where.  There were a lot of kids on the course during his race so the bike wasn't his strong suit but practice will make perfect but he came 1st in the run! The best part of this is the fact it was 4 hours after their lacrosse game in the heat on Saturday morning.

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