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A great ride today: 105 km with a 33 km/h average. But the best part was the receovery drinks served on the Borealis patio afterwards. A 90km loop through Maryhill-Elora with the possibility of a stop for a bite in Elora and/or a beer afterwards.

Ride is a go!  Looks like the rain might be coming later, so we'll do a shorter loop (note updated map). Usual Thursday format, A and B groups, probably do the rotating paceline again for a while. Victoria back into Guelph to mix it up.  

UPDATE 5:30 p.m.: The ride is a GO. Gonna be hot but nice… UPDATE 3:15 p.m.: Dana can't make it tonight, so Drew will be leading. Because we did pretty much the same route as Dana suggested last week, I'm changing it to the map below. I'll update at 5:30 p.m. with a weather call…

Hey Folks, I was contacted by student at Georgian College with a request to pass the following survey onto our members. Obviously, having run through the survey, they are trying to increase cycle tourism. Not a bad thing IMO. Have at'er if you will! http://fluidsurveys.com/s/roadcyclingsurvey2013/ As a "thank-you" for filling out this survey, all recipients…

With hot weather and risk of thunerstorms, the nearby Guelph Lake loops will be a fitting option for this week.  Will update by 4pm if ride is cancelled outright.  Pre-4pm Update: The forcast is 60% pop with ~1mm of rain, but the radar looks completely clear until 9pm. So unless it's raining or thundering at…

Ride is a go! We'll try Rob's route from last week which got rained out.  Hopefully it won't be again, but the forecast isn't looking great. Expect the fast guys to be off at the Tour of Waterloo, so if you've been looking for a longer ride w/o a punishing pace, this should the one.…

As much as people love to hate Peter Sagan… this is pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mgkkU-TRwvY

Same route as we were going to do last week.  We're going to do a paceline as well, rotation counter-clockwise.  I'll do a bit of a pre-ride talk so we're all on the same page.  A and B groups again as well.  

The second of our 4 event time trial series! Time trials are a great way to test your fitness.  It is a race against yourself and the clock. Riders start at 1 minute intervals and the challenge is to try to catch the rider ahead of you and not to be caught by the rider…

Another longish one to take advantage of the longest days of the year! Usual regrouping at the top of Rattlesnake, 6th line, etc.

As a side project, we've been looking into ordering custom skinsuits for the club.  These are great for time-trials, cyclocross, and crits… and road rides if you're into that. Tom has contacted Vie13 (http://www.vie13.com/product_long_sleeve_skinsuit.html) and it looks like with full custom SRCC logo-ing would come out to about $110 a piece.  This is a very…

Ride is cancelled…. Check the comments below, I may ride at 10 am being that it looks to improve by then.  I will post something there.. For Fathers Day ride we will explore some roads to the west and head towards St George.  Its a longish ride but relatively flat.  A continuous stream of rollers…

The ride for tonight is cancelled. Did somebody not sacrifice an inner tube to the cycling gods this spring or something?  There is a constant streamer headed down to the Guelph area http://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=WSO Better luck next week I suppose, argh.

I accidentally posted the wrong dates for the time trials on the Google calendar.  The next TT is not tomorrow, but NEXT week.  Apologies if this has messed up anyone's plans, send the hate-mail this way.  All remaining dates have been corrected. Sorry again, -Gabhan

The Skills and Safety Course has had participants every week, all new members. The LAST in the series will be held Wednesday June 12 at 6PM starting at Planet Bean on Grange. We may hold a course or two in July and August If you are attending  or want a refresher, the course material is posted under…