GGCC Club Ride details for Sunday 29th July 2018 - North 48 miles - Anti clockwise
Back on the North run this week as we have been east and south a lot recently!
This week we will head North out towards Stepps, Kilsyth, towards Lennoxtown onto The Crow Road car park then back down to have coffee at The Kirkhouse, before heading back in via Milgavie and Torrance.
Please make sure you are familiar with the route before you ride:
https://connect.garmin.com/course/5418590
Please meet under the McLennan Arch on the green for an 8:30am sharp start.
Road captains and ride leaders will assist with new rider briefings, M-check, group allocation, first aid pack check and any other areas of focus that enable to ride to go without a hitch.
Please can all groups work together and stay together, this is a training ride and not a race and working as a group will make you faster! Please work on group riding and ride in our standard D Rotation - outside lines moves faster than inside line. Can group leaders help with this where needed, thanks.
Please remember your £2 for coffee which we will be collected once we get to the Kirkhouse. The Kirkhouse has been called and arranged and are expecting us all and jugs of coffee and tea will be waiting for us.
If any new riders come along, can folk buddy up where possible so they understand how we ride.
We will go through some basic safety, group riding etiquette and group riding technique, first aid and basic bike maintenance before we set off so that everyone stays safe and knows exactly what’s happening on the ride.
For those of you who are first aid trained and have been issued first aid pack, can you please bring these along on Sunday (and each run you attend)
Weather is possibly to be raining, and with temperature around 14-15 degrees, and winds of 10mph from the ESE gusting to 23mph.
We will split into STEADY, CHALLENGE, CHEEKY CHALLENGE and RACE PACE and work together as groups.
Everyone takes the same route so if you choose the wrong group or get dropped from the faster groups, there will always be a group coming up that you can join. All groups work together at the start until the group is in a rhythm.
An idea of the pace each group should ride @ are -
Steady IS steady at about 14 -16mph
Challenge should stretch you at around 16mph - 18mph
Cheeky Challenge is average 18 - 20 mph
Race Pace will consistently average 20 mph+ and push hard on the hills.
**Please try and ride to the overall speeds of the above guides.
We will stop and regroup at the Quarry and the coffee stop only so efforts are more consistent and as 1 group arrives the previous group sets off so we minimize waiting around. ONLY 2 STOPS, Quarry and Kirkhouse.
ANY STOPS AT CAFE BARGA ARE NOT OFFICIAL SO ITS UP TO YOU IF YOU ADD THIS IN.
Speeds quoted are an overall average and the groups may be faster and slower at certain points throughout the ride.
Please remember to communicate within your group. If you get split due to junctions, traffic, roundabouts then get back together. If you get split as someone is dropping off the pace then that rider steps down a group, (or steps up if going through to hard)
If you need to ask the group to slow up, we would suggest you step down as you may be in the wrong group
Pick you group carefully and remember that steady is the only group that holds back and does not drop anyone.
**Please remember tubes, pump, levers, multitool and also please ensure your bike is in good working order, oiled, lubed, maintained and clean**
See you all Sunday.
From The Team @ GGCC