Mountain Biking Marin
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Hot Mamas Mountain Bike Skill Clinic - Sunday August 17

Instructors Team

Rachel Lloyd, Julia Violich, Beth Koppe, Dana Beckstoffer, Cheryl Stockton, Karen Rehder, Dolores Mosqueda , Jackie Pereira, Karen Kaner and Celia Graterol.

Rachel Lloyd

Rachel Lloyd is a professional cyclist with more than ten years of racing. She is currently the US Super D National Champion. She races in the Cross Country, Super D, Short Track and Downhill mountain bike categories as well as Cyclocross and Road racing. Her most recent victories in the mountain bike category are: 1st place US National Championship Super D; 1st place Downieville Classic DH; 1st Place Downieville Classic XC and Downieville Classic All Mountain Champion; and 1st Place Tamarancho XC Invitational Race.

Rachel's coaching combines her technical bike handling skills with her fitness training knowledge. She has been offering skills clinics for several years.

Rachel is also a certified massage technician and resides in Marin County, CA. In her spare time she races quadruple Dipsea events to keep her legs moving.

Julia Violich

Julia Violich has been biking for 14+ years. She raced professionally for several years in the US and also in Europe. Most of her racing has been in the endurance discipline. She raced Leadville 100, Vail Ultra, and E-100 in Utah to name a few. She has placed top five on those events and has gotten second many many times. She also raced in Europe's TransAlp Challenge twice, mountain biking through Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria.

Julia resides in Marin County and has two cute little boys. She now races in the Expert Master category and is currently the US National Champion. She is also 2nd in the world in her age category 40+.

Julia has been coaching cycling over the past 6 years, both as a Luna Chix Ambassador and as a NorCal High School MTB League coach. She especially likes teaching women about the sport.

Beth Koppe

Beth Koppe is a Downhill, Mountain Cross and Super D racer in the Expert Women 30-34 category. In 2005 she became the US National Champion DH. She also placed 5th in the NORBA Nationals Super D; 3rd in the NORBA Nationals Mountain Cross; 1st at Infineon Cougar Mountain Classic DH; 2nd at the NMBS Finals DH; 2nd at Mountain Cross and 2nd at DH Sea Otter Classic.

Beth coaches downhill and enjoys working with women in descending techniques.

Beth is originally from Vermont, currently residing in the Tahoe area where she rides her mountain and dirt bikes when she is not working as a carpenter. She is also a DJ focusing on mysogyny free hip-hop and breakbeats.

Dana Beckstoffer

Dana Beckstoffer is a Downhill and Super D racer in the Expert Women 40+ category. In 2007, she placed 2nd at Fontana NMBS DH; and 4th at Sea Otter Classic DH. In 2006 she was 1st at Fontana NMBS DH, 1st at Deervalley NMBS DH and 2nd at Deervalley NMBS Super D. In 2006, she placed 6th at Downieville Classic DH; 5th at NORBA Nationals DH, 2nd at Sea Otter Classic DH; and 4th at Bootleg Canyon Super D.

Dana has been coaching and leading rides for several years. She is very thoughtful and thorough in her teachings about balance, body positioning and braking techniques.

She resides in Petaluma, California, and is a professional chef (dbeckcatering.com), an indoor cycling instructor and a mother of two beautiful children. In her spare time, she hangs with the neighborhood BMX boys jumping sidewalks and stairs.

Cheryl Stockton

Cheryl Stockton is an cross country and downhill racer. She placed 2nd at the Downieville Classic in Cross-Country sport category and she's been on the podium at Sea Otter a few times. She has biked in Italy for 6 days covering over 35,000 feet of climbing hut to hut in the Dolomites, and in France covering many miles in 16 days. Cheryl usually rides trails near Livermore where she resides including Pleasanton Ridge, Redwood Park and Skeggs Point. She also rides Tamarancho and all around Marin. Other areas ridden include: Moab, Durango, Fruita - Kokopelli Trail, Tahoe, Downieville, and Santa Cruz.

Cheryl has been coaching in both mountain bike and road cycling clinics for over 5 years. She provides a friendly environment for women mountain bikers giving them inspiration to make their mountain biking experience better. Beginners to experts find her informative, understanding, enthusiastic, and encouraging.

Karen Rehder

Karen Rehder is a cross country racer in the masters category with many victories including: 1st at Downieville Classic XC 2006 and 2008 in the Masters Women category; 1st place at the Big Blue San Francisco AR 2007; 1st place at Sea Otter AR 2007; 1st place at the Big Blue Winter 2007; 1st place at Sea Otter Short Track 2006; 1st place at the Escape from Alcatraz Mother Son Team 2005; and placed top 20 in the 2004 La Ruta de los Conquistadores, a 3-day stage XC race across Costa Rica.

Karen is a proud mother of beautiful Bradley and Nicole, two athlete scholars who make the world a better place. In her spare time, Karen works as a Cardiology Nurse Practitioner.

Karen is a LUNA MTB Ambassador and a coach for the Terra Linda High School NorCal MTB Team.

Dolores Mosqueda

Dolores has been mountain biking since 1996 and really enjoys the sport as a lifestyle. Dolores believes in enjoying the ride and having fun! She has raced XC at Sea Otter Classic and placed 4th in the DH sport women category at the Downieville Classic. She says: "I just love riding! Whether it's on my cruiser, road bike or especially on my mountain bike! To me it's truly a lifestyle and I really enjoy seeing more women get into the sport! Get inspired!"

In her spare time, Dolores races go karts and designes cool sport clothing. Check her site at www.sportskirt.com

A three time National Champion in Karate in Brazil and a Supercross racer for several years, Jackie transitioned successfully into competitive bicycling in the early 1990s. She started racing in both cross-country and downhill events when she moved to Boulder, CO for school. She won the finals in downhill events in the expert level in 1993-1994-1995. She raced downhill for a few more years, and has raced in cross-country events and road races since then.

Jackie loves to ride and loves to help others develop their riding skills. She has been helping NorCal High school MTB league clinics for the past 2 years, and helping coach the Redwood High mountain bike team for the past 2 years as well.

She is now a LunaChix ambassador (Team LUNA Chix are ladies dedicated to getting more women into sports and outside to play! At the same time, they raise awareness and money for the Breast Cancer Fund.)

Karen Kaner is an avid mountain biker who loves technical cross country and downhill riding. She has been mountain biking for more than 10 years and raced two seasons in both XC and DH categories.

Karen loves to ride and help others with technical skills. Her incredible sense of humor and supportive spirit creates a safety environment that promotes self-confidence on her fellow riders during rides and clinics.

Karen resides in Berkeley, California and is a professional photographer.