President's Welcome
For 2008, we welcome CycleLife USA, a unique cutting-edge, cycling-centric lifestyle company located in the heart of DC's trendy Georgetown area, and Signal Financial, DC's fastest-growing federal credit union and past sponsor of our wildly popular kids' race event, as new team sponsors. Both companies are ideal fits within our team community and join our existing primary team sponsor Clean Currents, a Silver Spring-based broker of green energy commercial and residential solutions, and Don Beyer Volvo, the metro-region's leading Volvo dealership and mainstay.
We also welcome DrinkMore Water (2007 race sponsor of the DrinkMore Water Grand Prix of Silver Spring) and Minshall Stewart (2008 sponsor of professional cycling team Slipstream Chipotle), along with long-time team sponsor Deloitte, one of the world's leading financial services organizations, EAS, who produces the industry's highest quality nutritional products for athletes of all levels, newly-opening Redwood Restaurant from our friends at Sonoma, and HeartMiles, a fitness and health empowerment company.
Many thanks to this blue ribbon list of dedicated, supportive, and benevolent sponsors.
This April, we will be putting on the Carl Dolan Memorial Spring Classic for the 15th consecutive year. We will not be promoting the 4th Annual Silver Spring Grand Prix this year because the course is not available to us in 2008. However, in its place, we are working with the DC government to put on a national showcase criterium along Pennsylvania Avenue, with the start/finish line a stone's throw away from the Mayor Adrian Fenty office at City Hall.
On the race side, we will again be racing top of the line carbon Orbea bikes, sporting the new Ionos Giro helmet to keep our collective heads intact, and wearing Rudy Project sunglasses.
Every year I look forward, as we all do, to the upcoming race year with great excitement and expectation. The past three years have greatly exceeded my upcoming race year expectations, with pleasant surprise. I hope the trend continues so that when I sum up year 2008, I will look back and smile over what we were able to accomplish and how the sport of cycling has grown larger, still again.
