I am also new to road cycling and am doing around 13-15 mph, I am doing 22 miles pretty much every other day, but I would feel safer if I had somebody to ride with. I am working towards being able to easily do 30+ miles and am planning on riding in the Tour de Greune in New Branfels TX at the end of October.
Looking for a riding partner/partners. Dale Dale Bellman 252-360-4202 Office 252-230-1596 Mobile 707-924-0944 Fax ---- Original Message ----- From: "Cole Perry" <[email protected]> To: "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:42 PM Subject: [COWs] Re: group bike riding thoughts.....?? I'm new to road cycling. I have so far only been averaging 13-15 mph on my rides. I've been doing primarily 15+ mile rides with my longest so far being 30 miles. I'm planning on attempting 40-45 miles tomorrow afternoon. I may would be interested in some slower rides for the time being, but hope I can increase my speed as I ride more. On Oct 1, 3:32 pm, "Glover, Jeff" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am in, tell me how I can help. Like Bert, Old Broom Wagon really > benefits from and enjoys this group and greatly appreciates its > flexibility with my limited ability. I just love to ride (even in the > rain). > > I got stopped by a gentleman after last Saturday's ride pulling in at > home. He is on the discussion group but is shy to show up for lack of > ability. I encouraged him to be up front on his ability and put a call > for a slower ride. I promised to ride with him if I could make it. > > I just love to ride, want to get better myself and take as many people > along as I can. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ssp > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:03 PM > To: CyclistsOfWilson-COWs > Subject: [COWs] group bike riding thoughts.....?? > > First, thanks Kevin for your time and energy spent > promoting biking to the City Council and all you have > done to increase the importance of biking to Wilson. > Awesome. I know your efforts will pay off. > > Been on ~10 rides with the COWS group rides. A definite > improvement in my bike skills and abilities and a by-product > has been some weight loss. The most imp aspect is I have > met new friends and have had FUN! > > Have friends who have started biking but their skills are not up > to the 17/18/20/22mph pace. Several have mentioned they > would love to ride but as our group is now they could not keep > up. Heck I struggle to do so but thanks to the encouragement > and group mgmt by many of you helps me a whole lot! Never > thought I would love a turtle so much! > > It would be neat if we, as COW participants, try to make it so > there are at least 3 groups of abilities riding 7:30am Sat and > 2pm Sun. > > >20+mph group: for the masochists > <20-mph group: for the realists > <15-mph: for fun and fellowship/byproduct-FUN exercise > > I think the only way to encourage participation is to make > sure there is at the minimum these 3 levels of ability groupings > available to ride, each and every 7:30am and 2pm. We > would have to make sure there was at least 2 riders per group > to pull this off. I am just saying it might take one of us to > sacrifice our ability ride if only 1 shows for a specific group until > there is confidence among new riders to show up and enough > would show for their grouping----to make the effort FUN for > each group! > > I know there is pent up demand for slower group rides. Those that do > not > and can not ride at 18+ just do not show up. I think it should be up > to us to try and build up confidence in COW membership and new > memebers that EVERY time they show up at 7:30am or 2pm they > will have a group to ride with. Heck, there are 144 signed up members > and I dare say maybe ~15 are active bikers on group rides. I know > many > of us have significant others who I think would love to ride but/and > we > should try to make sure there is a group for their ability every > 7:30am/2pm. > > If we can help make it as much FUN for new people as it has been > for me then people will show up to have fun and enjoy meeting > new people and let the by-product be exercise and a healthy lifestyle. > This cannot happen over night but what do you guys think > and can/should we pull this off?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
