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9:15 PM on Tuesdays in Little Hall, Room 223
Welcome to Team Florida
Welcome to Team Florida Cycling. We are the University of Florida's Cycling Team.
We are a club sports team. We operate under USA Cycling competitively and organize ourselves under the University of Florida's Sports Clubs program. You are eligible to race for Team Florida in collegiate races as long as you are enrolled as a student. There are no time limits on eligibility, meaning that you can race from the time you are a freshman undergraduate student until you successfully defend your disseration to get your PhD.
Team Florida Cycling is also a cycling club that anybody can join and be a part of. You can start by creating an account. Anybody can create an account and post content to this website, including upcoming rides and races, which can be found on the CALENDAR.
Please visit some of the pages below to learn more about Team Florida Cycling.
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Ride Schedule
Most rides will be announced on the listserv. To subscribe to the listserv do the following:
Send an email to: LISTSERV@LISTS.UFL.EDU
with nothing in the subject line and the following in the body:
SUBSCRIBE TEAM-FLORIDA-L
Please check the CALENDAR for upcoming rides and races.
Road Rides:
Rides meet Monday through Friday in the late afternoon and weekends at 9:00am at Turlington Plaza (across from the bell tower). Come to a meeting and join the listserve for a more specific weekday schedule as it changes each week. Contact Kyle McElhaney for more info on road rides and Alicia Provenzano for info on mountain bike rides.
Here are a few of our road ride routes:
Team Florida is part of the Southeast Collegieate Cycling Conference (SECCC). Team Florida Competes in four disciplines of cycling: Road, Mountain, Track, and Cyclocross. The SECCC mountain bike season is during fall semester, while Road is during spring. Cyclocross is in late fall/winter, and Track is during summer and early fall.
Road
Within the road discipline, there are a number of events. A criterium is a short, fast paced race held on a short course (usually 1 mile or less). Cyclists race for a prescribed amount of time, with a set number of laps added (usually 2-5) for the finish. A road race is a longer race of larger laps, or even sometimes one big lap. A time trial is a race against the clock in which no drafting is allowed. A team time trial is a time trial in which a team of 3-4 riders draft off of each other, trying to have the best time among teams.
Mountain
Mountain Biking also has an assortment of different events. A cross country (XC) race is typically a few laps of a mountain bike trail, usually totaling between 15 and 30 miles. A short track race is an extremely fast short race (10-25 min.) on a very short loop (.5-1 mil). Dual slalom is a gravity event in which riders race head to head on parallel tracks with jumps and banked turns. A downhill race is a race downhill on mountain bike trails against the clock..
Cyclocross
Cyclocross racing is a strange breed. Literally a cross between mountain and road, the bicycles look like a road bikes with mountain bike tires and brakes. Races are usually several laps of a 1-2 mile course, with a barrage of obstacles such as incredibly steep short hills, wooden barricades, and mud pits, forcing the rider to dismount the bicycle in order to pass. Races are generally 45 min. to an hour long.
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Track
In track racing, a bicycle with a single, fixed gear is ridden around an embanked velodrome at incredibly high speeds.
Our Sponsor lineup for the upcoming season is in development right now and will be released in the fall. If you are interested in sponsoring the team, please contact us using the contact form.
Sponsoring Team Florida is a great way to support local cycling. In addition to the goodwill you will generate, Team Florida can also help you grow your business. This will be the first year that we are utilizing a sponsor affiliate program, so please contact us to learn more about how we can drive traffic to your business.
We look forward to working with you during the upcoming season.
This website has been made possible by the generosity of Phil "The Thrill" Gaimon, who is our coach as well as a professional bike racer and professional coach. Please visit his site here:
And you can read his blog here:
If you need a coach, he is the man. Visit his site for more details.
