>From mon bike club forum. Everyone who has been racing road so far this season should be there.
Ride time is about 2 hours, so we'll be back in town before the meeting starts. __________________________________ Wednesday Evening Rides (New & improved start location!)** **starting from Hazel Ruby McQuain Amphitheatre** Time: meet at 5:30, start promptly at 5:40 Pace: FAST paced training ride! Mostly upper-moderate to hard tempo pacelining and race simulation with some sign and hill sprints, attacks, etc. thrown in. Expect it to be fast, but also expect a couple of regroupings during the ride. At the next regrouping, just jump back in and try again. **Ideally - while pacelining - short pulls are best. They allow for lots of different riders to see the front, and it also makes it much more likely that the group will stay together. If you really wanna blow things apart, do it by attacking on your own, rather than wrecking a smoothly flowing paceline. Route: The 'usual' route is out and back, mostly. (Railtrail to Star City Bridge, Osage, Rt 100, Big Shannon, return same route via Big Shannon but then take 19, skipping 100 on the way back to town). This can be altered depending on the mood of the group/construction conditions, weather, etc. __________________________________ Ride Etiquette/Regrouping: Slow start on railtrail and then neutral rollout until we make the left under the RR Trestle to start climbing 100. Meaning, a smooth, moderately paced paceline/rotation. No surges or attacking during this time please. Again, once we make the left turn under the trestle, it's on, and you can surge, attack, go 110% if you'd like. Remember to regroup at Rt100 and 19 intersection on the way out, so that a group can reform after the Lazelle hill carnage. And then on the way back... it'd be great to regroup either at top of the big climb on 19--the 2nd rise--before making the pothole filled plunge back down to the right run into Osage. These are of course optional, but those couple of minutes(at most) you might end up waiting for the stragglers at the top, really helps keep up the morale for this ride, so no-one gets discouraged and a big group keeps coming back. Plus its cool to have a big group of people to work with going to downhill. If you need to keep going without waiting, no problem.
