Press Releases

29Apr-18

TT is the name of the game for April 2018!! Spring training is in full swing! By Jenna Rollman.

April has been a pretty active month for me and Team PossAbilities!! The weekend following Easter Sunday I headed out to Fillmore to race the Piru Time Trial for the first time in 2018, it was nice to be challenged again on the hilly 20K course and I was driven to gain a personal record. There was a significant wind blowing at start time which would provide a superb tailwind going out however I was trepidacious when thinking about [...]

30Mar-18

March Madness at the Fiesta Island Time Trial!! The weather won’t keep me from trying my best!! By Jenna Rollman

The main event for me this March was going out to test my time trial skills at the Fiesta Island TT in Mission Bay which is nestled in the middle of beautiful San Diego! My mood was positive in looking forward to performing well coming off the success I achieved at February’s Valley of the Sun despite the heavily rainy weather in the week leading up to and the day before the TT, it was forecasted to clear out and [...]

28Feb-18

First Stage Race of 2018: Valley of the Sun!! The Adventures of Stage 3–Downtown Phoenix Criterium! By Jenna Rollman

Valley of the Sun Stage 3–Downtown Phoenix Criterium. The final race for the 2018 Valley of the Sun is the fastest and most intense of all, taking place right in the heart of Downtown Phoenix and giving the competitors one last chance to make up time lost during the road race or to solidify their top standings in the overall GC! The handcycle criterium was slated to start at 2:35pm of which I felt very grateful for because the physical [...]

17Sep-17

Paratriathlon Worlds Finals, Rotterdam – Netherlands ?? September 15th, 2017

Aloha fellow Team PossAbilities supporters and enthusiasts! Today we’re here to report about the Finals in Rotterdam. Everything about that race was tough: the weather, the course, the competitors. It was the same usual suspects, with varying degrees of disability (and unfairness in some cases as we know). After a smooth 10 hour flight from LAX to Amsterdam, I met with Team Brazil in the airport and we drove to Rotterdam. Beautiful 2 hour drive through green fields, a lot of [...]

Disabled athletes should inspire us

Carrie Finale of Pacifica, a member of Team PossAbilities and a competitor in the handcycling competition at this weekend’s Redlands Bicycle Classic. REDLANDS — To those of us with four healthy, functioning limbs, these cycles might look funny or weird at first glance. They’re long, low to the ground, meant for the rider to recline and not sit upright, and can be propelled by the hands just as well as by the feet. Maybe we’re the ones who should take a [...]

Category: Press ReleasesComments: 0Post Date: March 24, 2012

Handcycling becoming a welcome staple of the Classic

Matt McLeod, Redlands Daily Facts Redlands Daily Facts Posted: RedlandsDailyFacts.com REDLANDS — It took months for Delmon Dunston to feel human again. The 33-year-old Riverside native will never forget the moment that first changed his life. The date was July 14, 2000, and Dunston was wrestling at a local gym when he shattered his C6 vertebra. It was an injury that would leave him unable to walk ever again. Cooped up inside his house, stuck inside a wheelchair he’d grown to hate, it wasn’t until [...]

Category: Press ReleasesComments: 1Post Date: March 21, 2012

Welcome to the Redlands Bicycle Classic

Posted: RedlandsDailyFacts.com On behalf of our “All Volunteer” Redlands Bicycle Classic Board of Trustees and the countless other volunteers and supporters, we are proud to have you join us at the 28th edition of the Redlands Bicycle Classic. We hope you enjoy the four days of action packed fun and competition. Don’t miss our world-class athletes battling it out on the streets of Redlands and Beaumont, or our largest field of handcyclists ever, or our public and amateur races for kids of all ages [...]

Category: Press ReleasesComments: 0Post Date: March 17, 2012

The Legend Continues, The 2012 Redlands Bicycle Classic Announces Its Management Team And Event Dates

Redlands, Calif.— The new racing season kicks into full swing as the all-volunteer Redlands Bicycle Classic Committee (RBC Org Committee) is plotting and planning another epic edition of the opening event of the 2012 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar cycling series. The event will be held March 22nd-25th, one week earlier than last year’s event, and will kick off the cycling season under the warm SoCal sun for four stages of fast and furious bicycle racing as teams look to [...]

Category: Press ReleasesComments: 0Post Date: February 6, 2012

Loma Linda University Medical Center 8th annual PossAbilities Celebration Dinner to feature popular performer Justin Hines

LOMA LINDA, CA., Nov. 8, 2011 – Famed Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Hines will inspire the audience as the featured speaker at the upcoming Loma Linda University Medical Center 8th annual PossAbilities Celebration Dinner. Loma Linda University Medical Center East Campus will host the annual PossAbilities Celebration Dinner from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Riverside Convention Center – Ben H. Lewis Hall, 3443 Orange Street, Riverside, Calif. “We are excited to recognize all of the inspiring [...]

Category: Press ReleasesComments: 0Post Date: November 8, 2011