Press Releases

30Jun-18

2018 Paracycling National Championships–Awesome adventures in Augusta Georgia and reaching a new level of success!! By Jenna Rollman

The most important event at the 2018 Paracycling National Championships was the Time Trial. This race served as the qualifier to be selected for the second World Cup in Emmen, Netherlands or to make it on the National Team, requiring hopeful athletes to meet the National Standard in their respective classification, which is no easy task! On the morning of the time trial my stomach was filled with butterflies and my mind blankly unfocused as I got ready to warm [...]

31May-18

Team PossAbilities takes the 2018 Redlands Bicycle Classic Para-Cycle Series by STORM!! Three great days of racing and giving it our BEST!

May’s main event for Team PossAbilities was the renowned Redlands Bicycle Classic Para-Cycle Series! This intense four day stage race brings paracyclists from all around the USA who come to show their competitive spirits and battle one another on challenging courses in the prime Southern California cities of Yucaipa and Redlands. The Para-Cycle Series kicks off with a Time Trial, but unfortunately for this year’s 2018 race the Stage 1 Big Bear TT was cancelled due to snow and the [...]

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