President's Welcome


Welcome to the CPEI Web Site - Message from the President
     March 28, 2013 — David Sims

Dear Cycling Enthusiast:

Welcome to the Cycling PEI web site.   The volunteers and staff who comprise CPEI  are skilled, enthusiastic and friendly.  If you are looking for PEI cycling information, you will either find it here, or we'll help you to get it.  Cycling PEI programs include beginner, intermediate and advanced road rides, mountain bike training, bicycle rodeos and safe riding courses, promotion of active transporation infrastructure, training of instructors, coaches and race officials, and high level competitive events.  For people who are not so interested in competitive riding, prefering recreational riding, please ask about our Monday night road rides and Confederation Trail ride options.

March 28, 2013 -   

The Confederation Trail still belongs to snow mobiles, and this year, they are actually able to use it.  Freezing temperatures abound.  But the days are ticking by, the sun is getting stronger, daffodils are sprouting the tips of their greenery nearer buildings where the ground is not so cold, and soon we will be wheeling about on PEI.  In the meantime, the board if directors of Cycling PEI are working at a large chainring pace to get ready for the upcoming season.  Our new program for 2013 is a Garan Fondo event, to be held on the weekend of August 23-25.  For full details, please visit www.granfondo-pei.ca.  We are also working on better versions of Red Isle Relay and Tour de  Cabot, to create a full summer of rides and special events.  

If you drive your child to school, you decrease your child’s ability to learn the rest of the school day.  
On the flip side, when children walk or bike to school, instead of being driven in a bus or car, they concentrate much better and the effects last for a while. 

This is one of the main conclusions of a study (http://www.foodoflife.dk/opus.aspx: in Danish) of 19,527 school children ages 5 to 19 just published by Niels Egelund, a professor at Aarhus University in Denmark. The results were made public recently by the research center OPUS, at the University of Copenhagen.  
The study investigated the connections between diet, exercise and the ability to concentrate for school students of all ages. Among its many results, one really stood out: Children have less concentration if they do not exercise on the way to school.

 

 This web site contains many viewing options.  On the home page there is the calendar of events.  You can purchase CPEI clothing, or contact me or the Executive Director, Mike Connolly, should you have questions.  

David Sims
sims@cpei.ca



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