Tag: Sunday Medium

Sunday Medium Moderate Road Ride | May 8th, 9 AM

What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than riding your bike… and then visiting your mother. A scenic route for the medium group this week: Maryhill, Crowsfoot, the covered bridge, Elora and Fergus. We’ll stop for refueling in Elora. This ride is averages 27-30 km/h. Note 9:00 am start time.

GCC members only. To become a member join HERE

Advance sign-up required. Reserve your spot by clicking HERE

Start Time: please be ready to pedal at 9:00 AM

Start Location: East End Library at Starwood and Watson

Check here for weather cancellation posted no less than one hour before the ride begins

CANCELLED Sunday Medium Moderate Road Ride | May 1st, 11AM

UPDATE 10 A.M: RIDE CANCELLED. With wet roads and more rain in the forecast, I think we’ll make discretion the better part of valour today. Sigh.

For our first Medium Moderate Sunday Road Ride, we will head down to the Flying Monkey Bike Shop and Coffee Bar in Campbellville where we will sip java and ogle all the fancy bikes before heading home through the metropolis of Crief and past the Ellis Chapel. It was built in 1861 and is the only known chapel in Puslinch with easy access to McDonald’s french fries. Alas, we won’t be stopping at the chapel (or for french fries) though if you feel the need to pray to the cycling gods at some point on the ride that’s completely up to you: this is beyond my purview as ride leader.

As this is a new ride, I’m sure there are questions as to the speed, intensity and overall approach. In a nutshell, we will adhere to the officially posted average of 27 to 29 km/h and work together to make it fun for everyone. If you are stronger, you should expect to pull more. If you are still getting back into fighting shape after a long COVID winter of wine drinking and potato chip consumption, well, you can hang out at the back with the rest of the fun kids. As this was my approach to off-season training, I plan to do most of my finest leading while dangling precariously off the rear of the bunch.

OK, this is already the longest ride preview in GCC club history (which is only like 4 days but still.) Come out on Sunday and let’s ride bikes, drink coffee and make our offerings to the cycling gods. It will be fun, I promise.

GCC members only. To become a member join HERE

Advance sign-up required. Reserve your spot by clicking HERE

Start Time: please be ready to pedal at 11:00 AM

Start Location: East End Library at Starwood and Watson

Check here for weather cancellation posted no less than one hour before the ride begins

Route: The Medium Moderate Sunday Ride will be following the map below

Sunday August 9th 8:00 AM Road Ride – Moderate 89K

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RIDE CANCELLED A family emergency has left us without a ride leader for this ride. Apologies for the short notice.

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A nice meander east of the city. There will be a pit stop at Andrew’s Farm Market at 50K, bring a mask and some money for that. This nice little road ride will have you back in time for lunch.

Start time: 8 AM 

Start location: The Guelph East End Public Library. Plenty of parking for those arriving by car. 

To join the ride, you will need to complete and submit the sign-up form, found HERE. All steps listed in the form MUST be completed.

Check back here for weather cancellation announcement, it will be posted no less than one hour before the ride.

Sunday August 9th 8:00 AM Gravel Ride – Leisurely 82K

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Radar is showing a bit of rain toward the start of the ride, but clearing shortly after. Might be a little damp at the start, but it’ll be gorgeous after. RIDE IS ON!

Lets’ try this again. This is last weeks cancelled gravel ride redux. It’s looking good for this Sunday and we’re excited about this route.

Start time: 8 AM 

Start location: Guelph Youth Music Centre (not the library). Plenty of parking for those arriving by car. 

We’ll be meeting separately from the ‘Moderate’ riders. Our meeting place will be the South end of the parking lot near the building (see image below). 

We’re going to head up the Kissing Bridge trail, over the ‘Flat Side of the Bridge’, check out Sandy Hills, then wind our way over to Elora for a nice coffee break at about the 50 km mark.  We’ll aim for a 22-24 kph average, depending on the makeup of the ride. 

To join the ride, you will need to complete and submit the sign-up form, found HERE. All steps listed in the form MUST be completed.

Check back here for weather cancellation announcement, it will be posted no less than one hour before the ride.

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Sunday August 2nd 8:00 AM Gravel Ride – Leisurely 82K

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RIDE CANCELLED Dirt roads and trail sections will be a slippery mess this morning and the Radar says there’s a bit more rain still to come. We’ll try again next week.

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Being as it’s the long week-end, we’ll make the leisurely gravel ride a bit longer this week. 

Start time: 8 AM 

Start location: Guelph Youth Music Centre (not the library). Plenty of parking for those arriving by car. 

We’ll be meeting separately from the ‘Moderate’ riders. Our meeting place will be the South end of the parking lot near the building (see image below). 

We’re going to head up the Kissing Bridge trail, over the ‘Flat Side of the Bridge’, check out Sandy Hills, then wind our way over to Elora for a nice coffee break at about the 50 km mark.  We’ll aim for a 22-24 kph average, depending on the makeup of the ride. 

To join the ride, you will need to complete and submit the sign-up form, found HERE. All steps listed in the form MUST be completed.

Check back here for weather cancellation announcement, it will be posted no less than one hour before the ride.

Sunday July 26th 8:00 AM Gravel Ride – Moderate 82K

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This Sunday is the first official day of club rides in 2020 and the first official club gravel rides (not counting the BGR event last year).

Start Time: 8:00 AM, please be ready to pedal then.

Start location: Guelph Youth Music Centre (not the library). Plenty of parking for those arriving by car.

We are required to meet separately from the ‘Leisurely’ gravel riders. Our group will be at the north end of the parking lot. See below.

The gravel route is a nice one that uses some Kissing Bridge Trailway and a lot of gravel roads up and around Elora & Fergus.

There will be a coffee/snack stop in Elora

To join this ride, you need to fill in the sign-up form and the link is HERE

You need to follow all the instructions in that link to join the ride. We are capped at 12 riders total – the form will disappear once we have a full roster.

The weather is looking good with a nice starting temperature and then rising. Bring lots of water and electrolytes. See you then!

Sunday August 4th C ride | 8am start

The forecast looks great for this long weekend ride! We’ll do a clockwise route up past Oustic, then south (taking in a bit of gravel) to stop at Goodfellow’s in Rockwood. Continuing south, we’ll finish up with the Watsonberg.

This group will be riding at a social pace of 26-28km/h. If this is your first ride this year, or first in a while, be sure to review all of the excellent info in our “New Members” resources page.

Sunday July 14th 8 AM C Ride

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Gorgeous conditions predicted for a classic CW loop that takes us down Watsonburg, past Crief and into Hespeler for a halfway stop at Creme Cafe (bring some cash for that). Then we continue up Chilligo to Maryhill, Ariss and back home all in time for lunch. EC says we’ll have a cool start of 15 degrees with no humidity and almost no wind and finishing under complete sun and 21 degrees. We’ll be riding at a leisurely 26 to 28 kph average. Apply your sunscreen under your arm warmers (weird!).

Sunday May 5 | C Ride | 8:00am | 80kms

***PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE*** By popular demand, this Sunday morning is starting at the new start time of 8:00am!! We’ll head south and make our way through Kilbride and then head into Carlisle for a coffee stop. We’ll be heading back north up Millborough and Watson. We’ll be sticking to the posted 26 – 28kph average for this ride. Fingers crossed for a beautiful day.

Sunday Sept 23rd 9:00 AM | Women’s Leisurely Paced Ride

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This is a new Club ride designed for those of us who don’t want to slow down the riders on the regular Sunday Medium ride.  It is “women-centric”, but a ‘few good men’ are welcome too! For this week, Meg will be leading a 75 km route with a planned average of 27-28 kph. Unfortunately, there won’t be anywhere to buy a snack on this route, so please plan to carry something with you and we’ll have a wee break at the Limehouse Community Centre.

Medium Ride Sunday July 29, 9:00am

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This 76 km Fergus-Elora coffee run should get us home by lunch and before any threat of rain. We’ll be crossing the covered bridge at West Montrose (someone please open a cafe here!). A cool Saturday evening should make for a perfect start as the day warm towards noon. Bring a little money for the cafe in Elora. See you soon.