BOARD MEETING MINUTES

FFBC BOARD MEETING
LOCATION: Fremont Adult Education School, Room N6, 4700 Calaveras Ave, Fremont, CA 94538
DATE: April 14, 2015

Attendance

Call to Order
Meeting called to order by Luis at 6:32 PM.

Meeting Minutes
Luis asked if there were any questions or changes needed on the previous month's minutes – none were brought up. They were approved.

Race Team Report – Chris Menicou
The race season has officially started and this is the update from 3/14 thru 4/12. There have been 10 events with 3 first places, 4 second places, and 2 third places along with many other top ten paces.
Team Fremont is now in 8th place out of 80 teams in Northern Cal. and Nevada. The team is doing an excellent job!

Other team highlights:

• There are now 74 paid team members on the roster which includes 18 ladies and 16 juniors
• Ongoing reminder on Tuesday and Thursday night training

Director-at-Large – Trish Conklin
As usual Trish was well prepared and brought three pizzas for tonight's meeting and bike fitting event.

Treasury Report – Julia Walker
Primavera income is now dropping due to no more Primavera or membership income.
Expenses are starting to pick up due to Primavera expenses.

Ride Coordinator – Dave Fishbaugh
Dave made his final proposal for a new rider's incentive. The general structure is to have a party – similar to the Primavera workers party – 2 times per year. Dave picked out the first date: July 12th 5-8PM at Round Table Pizza in Newark. Dave also presented budgetary numbers for event costs. The Board unanimously agreed with his proposal. Dave will send out a note to all membership.

General Discussion - Luis Facha
Old Business:
Thermo Fisher – The Board reiterated that there is no individual who can be a primary interface. Bob M, Luis F, and Julia W have all volunteered to share the interface. Bob M has contacted Andrew and made him aware of the arrangement.
Andrew Setikas of ThermoFisher also asked whether the FFBC is interested in partnering with their group for their Oct cycling event. This request was presented to the Primavera committee. The Committee said they were willing to rent out some equipment (canopies, coolers, etc.) to ThermoFisher and to provide guidance on the event. The committee put off any more review of possibilities until after the Primavera event. Bob M relayed all this information to Andrew Setikas.
New Business:
Someone suggested we update the ongoing ride descriptions in the ride calendar. Some of them are outdated.

Board Meeting Adjourned
7:00 PM: Dave proposed the meeting be adjourned. Chris seconded it. Meeting adjourned.

FFBC GENERAL MEETING

Meeting opened at 7:35 PM.
Asked if there were any changes or corrections to the previous month’s minutes. No issues. Minutes accepted.

Race Team Report – Chris Menicou
The race season has officially started and this is the update from 3/14 thru 4/12. There have been 10 events with 3 first places, 4 second places, and 2 third places along with many other top ten paces.
Team Fremont is now in 8th place out of 80 teams in Northern Cal. and Nevada. The team is doing an excellent job!
Other team highlights:

• There are now 74 paid team members on the roster which includes 18 ladies and 16 juniors
• Ongoing reminder on Tuesday and Thursday night training

Chris reviewed the following team results and provided the complete results later by email. This is for March and early April events. Those results are shown in the Board Meeting minutes above.

Director-at-Large – Trish Conklin
Trish has again supplied some very good food. Members, you should all start showing up to try out some of these delicacies. Tonight's specialty was three different pizzas, including one with gluten free crust! So if you want to find out what Trish dreams up next (plus what our other Board members have to say about club activity!) I'd recommend that you show up at the next meeting.

Treasurer – Julia Walker
Income is now dropping due to no more Primavera or membership income
Expenses are starting to pick up due to Primavera expenses.

Ride Coordinator – Dave Fishbaugh
Dave presented his proposal for a new rider's incentive program comprising two celebrations per year for ride leaders. He will be publishing the full description of the events.

General Topics & Special Presentation – Luis Facha
We immediately got into the special presentation by Ryan Moore, of PressPlay, from Berkeley (http://pressplaylab.com/). Ryan is a Cat 1 racer who races for a San Francisco team. He discussed his group’s bike fitting methodology and technologies that they use to optimize a rider’s fit. Below is a summary of the key points made during his presentation.
Caveat: One important point he made is that the demos this evening may show up possible issues, however without doing a complete diagnostic session he will not make any prescriptions or recommended changes. So all statements below are rough guides as to areas to look into but are no means a final analysis.

1. He talked about this philosophy on fitting. Has been fitting for 7 years. His main focus seems to be feet/shoes and saddle position relative to crank. He said everything else falls into place from there.
2. His fit was a balance between existing body conditions and where the body should be – he likes to choose a point between those two. And then have rider focus on stretching to move the body to what it should be.
   1. Felt a position where the body was naturally relaxed was the best – so your movements aren’t fighting against body limits. That’s what causes injury.
   2. Big issue was flexibility – most common was hip/leg flexing and in particular the leg on the top of the stroke. Really stressed stretching – says 25% of your workout time should be stretching.
   3. Benefits of a good fit – more power (10-30%) and maybe more importantly, less injuries
   4. Felt his fittings were very tightly done (1mm level precision on bike positions). If you changed shoes or saddles you ought to be retested (a quick session) and tuned.
   5. Felt that even different thickness shorts (and padding) could impact the fitting (!!??). Again the 1mm precision.
   6. He said the fit process is iterative. When they are trying to “fix” an issue, they take their best guess as to the root cause(s) and then develop a strategy (or strategies) to fix it. Then at each adjustment step they go back and test to make sure they are on the correct track. If not, they step back and rethink the approach.
3. Very selective about saddles – felt only a few gave the right support and allowed your pelvis to rotate forward properly. 
1. Thought most of Specialized line of saddles were good.
2. Felt most saddles were fit too narrow
3. Felt the opening in most saddles was too small
4. Felt many women’s saddles had too sharp an edge on their openings, which caused two sharp points (ridges) to cause trouble. 
5. He likes a saddle to provide even pressure and support over a person’s bottom, along with allowing to you to roll forward, again evenly supported, as you lean into the drops.
6. They have 25 recommended saddles at their shop. After a fitting, if you want to consider changing a saddle they will provide a loaner to check it out.
4. Interesting philosophy on crank arms: In general Ryan leaned toward shorter arms – 165-167.5mm. Felt longer crank arms didn’t really give power advantage as everyone always states because there are enough gears on a bike that good gear choice is always available. Instead longer cranks tended to accentuate/aggravate any hip/leg flexibility limits.
5. Demo-ed a foot sensor that was inserted in the shoe.
1. The foot sensor has an array of 1 square cm regions of pressure/force sensors. One pedals with the sensor on and their software does an accumulation of the force over many strokes.
2. Showed foot movement (rolling, rotating), foot pressure points, Left/Right foot pressures, proper stroke synchrony. 
3. Vicki tried it, looking for hot spots – Found lot of downward force on left foot toes, and not as much around ball of foot. Strong indicator of something to look into – probably needs a cleat position adjustment or some foot wedges
6. He demonstrated a similar saddle pressure sensor – this was very interesting
1. Showed accumulated pressure over the entire saddle over many pedal strokes
2. Can give hip rotation info, proper forward/backward balance, general distribution of weight in saddle
3. Mabel did demo – showed lots of pressure on one outer edge of saddle – those kinds of readings often indicate saddle too narrow. 
4. Vicki did demo – showed some hip rotation
7. EMG testing – Electro MioGraphy – using sensor on your muscle to determine firing action of muscles. This fitting technique costs $75 more that the basic $299 fitting. The technology measures the electrical neural signal that is going to your muscle and forcing it to fire. With their tools they can monitor almost any surface muscle group: the most commonly monitored are calves, hamstrings, quads, gluts, and upper and lower back muscles.
1. Likes to see clean firing – sharp edges. That means muscle is firing properly and strongly and that the body is clearly “focusing” on the muscle movement and not compensating with another muscle group. If not one can do training exercises to overcome these kinds of issues.
2. Likes to see balance between legs as well as upstroke and down stroke efforts.
3. Also very helpful for looking at lower back issues. They can monitor when muscles are firing there and see what part of the stroke causes issues.
4. Vicki did a demo that was very interesting. He saw that her one quad was firing fine but the other quad was literally not firing at all. Instead on that one the hamstring was firing very strongly (and thereby compensating). He said normally the hamstring is rarely used during the stroke (a little at the top), and it’s not uncommon that, if the quad has an issue, the hamstrings compensate. This means less power and can be a cause for injury. In this kind of situation Ryan would look toward some muscle training work on that quad that was not firing.

Note that PressPlay will give FFBC members a $25 discount on the general fitting and a $10 discount on lactate testing.

Meeting adjourned
Approx 9:00 PM

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