Club Ride after touring
09-18-14, 06:35 PM
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Club Ride after touring
Just came back from a ride with the local cycling club. This is the 3rd. ride since we arrived back home from our cross country tour. How do I say this gently. It is a bit boring! After cycling across the country , seeing new sights, and yes riding my fully loaded touring bike, I think I am spoiled!!!
Anyone else experience this?
Anyone else experience this?
09-18-14, 07:31 PM
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Yep, touring was part of the reason I stopped riding with the local groups... I got so used to acting on "Hm, I wonder what's down THAT road" that I felt constrained. Also, I really don't give a furry crack about who's got what components, what your VO2 max is, hate energy gels, and generally stop for stop signs/lights. Guess I'm too Fred...
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Club rides and touring are very different things, with different objectives. I've toured quite a bit, but still enjoy the club rides. I like the people and the social interaction.
Several of our club members are very experienced bike tourers, one has crossed the U.S. nine different ways. Several more, have crossed multiple times. It is always enjoyable to ride a good brisk ride and then socialize over a nice lunch.
If I want an "interesting" ride my wife and I will take off and take a short tour to explore a new region.
Several of our club members are very experienced bike tourers, one has crossed the U.S. nine different ways. Several more, have crossed multiple times. It is always enjoyable to ride a good brisk ride and then socialize over a nice lunch.
If I want an "interesting" ride my wife and I will take off and take a short tour to explore a new region.
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09-18-14, 08:17 PM
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I look at group rides more as workouts. Generally they are so fast and your just staring at some guys ass the whole time.
But you can get a better workout that if you were riding alone.
Just use club rides to get ready for tours.
But you can get a better workout that if you were riding alone.
Just use club rides to get ready for tours.
09-19-14, 06:01 AM
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I like that idea.Just use club rides to get ready for tours! The other thing I noticed last night was I was the only one waving to people as I rode by! A carry over from touring!!
09-19-14, 07:20 AM
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Touring is addictive. Doing big loops gets a little tiring. I want to just keep going point to point to point and so on.
09-19-14, 08:03 AM
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When I tried to live in (expensive even then) SF, in the 80's met with a bike club of people organized just around the social act of group fun.
did 1 AYH tour as a trip leader .. leading from the back on sweep.
10 years Later, as a visitor, taking a club ride in the middle of a tour, in Northumbria, it was nice to join another club, there ,
that was inclusive and not competitive , that day .
did 1 AYH tour as a trip leader .. leading from the back on sweep.
10 years Later, as a visitor, taking a club ride in the middle of a tour, in Northumbria, it was nice to join another club, there ,
that was inclusive and not competitive , that day .
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09-22-14, 08:14 AM
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Although I'm able to move up from the "slow" to the "fast" group for a couple weeks after I get back from a week-long (or better) tour.
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I used the rides with my local touring clubs as training rides for randonneuring. I'd ride to the start point maybe 50 km away, do their 50 or 75 or 100 km club ride, and then ride home.
It was nice to ride with other people, and occasionally those rides would introduce me to a road I hadn't ridden yet.
It was nice to ride with other people, and occasionally those rides would introduce me to a road I hadn't ridden yet.
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