Tahoe Bike Challenge
Monday June 4 to Friday June 15 is the Tahoe Bike Challenge.
The 7th annual Tahoe Bike Challenge is promoting bicycling as an alternative transportation choice over the automobile. This is not a competition but rather an invitation to join hundreds of Tahoe bicyclists in riding your bike to work, school or play. The Challenge can be a personal one in which riding a bike for the very first time is your challenge or it can be a team effort to see how many trips made and miles accumulated during the event. You define your own Challenge and have fun doing it.
Tahoe Bike Challenge Sets New Goals For 2012, new goals have been set to increase participation and results.
They are:
· 1,000 participants
· 100 teams
· 10,000 trips
· 30,000 total miles traveled.
To Register for the Challenge
Go to www.TahoeBike.org and register for the Challenge – its Free! And, you will receive daily chances to win prizes. At anytime, 24/7, you can go online to record your trips and miles. It’s that easy.
Tahoe Legends 10K/5K Race
RACE STARTS at 8:00am at the Lake Tahoe Community College Main Entry
Presented by: TR4CK – Track for Community and Kids
The 5 kilometer and 10 kilometer runs snake through rolling hills, forests and meadows on single track trails and bike paths. Competitors start at LTCC and finish on the track at the South Tahoe Community Sports Complex, former home of the 1968 Olympic Trials Track. The Tahoe Legends Challenge also pits local fitness clubs in head to head competition for the Fast and Fit Trophy.
DATE/LOCATION: Saturday, June 16, 2012 starting at LTCC Main Entry and finishing at the South Tahoe Community Sports Complex (South Tahoe Middle School)
RACE-DAY REGISTRATION: 7:15 AM – 7:45 AM
RACE START: 8:00 AM
ENTRY FEE: $30 STUDENT FEE: $20 (Age 17 and under)
ENTRY COVERS: Tee-Shirt, one entry per registrant in post-race raffle and running gear for the top male and female in 10K and 5K.
PAYMENT: Make Check to “TR4CK”, Mail to checks and form to Carol Haase-Hug, PO Box 16401, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151
CONTACT INFO: Race Director– Brett Long, (530) 541-0255, brett@btlong.com
SPECIAL TEAMS EVENT: (5K only) Entry $100 for teams of 5 – Team race is a 5K for a 5 person co-ed team consisting of at least 2 female runners. Team members run the course individually, then all 5 members will run an additional lap around the track to finish together for their official “team time”. Final lap may include a fitness course, obstacles, and /or fitness stations.
Online Registration at http://adsportstahoe.com
Become a Wildlife Volunteer
If you’re interested in helping raise and rehabilitate wildlife at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, be sure to sign up for the 32nd Annual LTWC Training Seminar, May 19-20.
This training seminar covers all the basics you need to know about working with wildlife before becoming an active volunteer at LTWC. The cost of the seminar is $60 per person (and $40 for each additional family member). This cost includes a training manual, a year’s membership with LTWC, and lunch on Sunday (May 20). Once you’ve completed the course, you can put your new skills to work at LTWC!
Our active volunteers assist with capturing, transporting, examining and feeding injured and orphaned animals and birds, and–when they’re ready–releasing them back into the wild! Click here for more details and to sign up today!
Slow Rollers Spirit Parade in South Lake Tahoe, CA
We’re Going for the World Record (and it won’t cost you a dime)!
When: Thursday 05.17.12, 4pm til you drop at Mo’s
Where: South Lake Tahoe, CA
The Slow Rollers Bicycle Club proudly presents the second annual Spirit Parade. Everyone is invited to participate in this free cruising event from Miller’s Outpost at the “Y” in South Lake Tahoe, CA, to MontBleu Resort Casino and Spa at Stateline, NV. Don’t worry… two states, but only five (flat) miles.
When they say “everyone” they mean EVERYONE because they’re going for the LARGEST BICYCLE PARADE WORLD RECORD currently held by the city of Davis, CA, and the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF). Oh, it’s on. You’ll get a number. You’ll be counted. And we all just want to count, right? Guinness, the World Record people not the beer, will certify the numbers and we’ll make history… in a good way. Pre-register at Tahoe Sports Ltd. Post-check-out-wow-I-biked-(slow)-all-day-now-let’s-party after party at Mo’s.
Other world records may be set at this time. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
12th Annual Snapshot Day
Join California Trout, the Tahoe RCD and your neighbors on May 12th from 9am to noon!
Snapshot Day is a hands-on opportunity for residents to get involved in monitoring the water quality of their watershed at streamside sites in California and Nevada. All of the data collected is used in future restoration projects by agencies around Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River.
For more details, to volunteer, or to become a site leader, visit www.SnapshotDay.org.
