Gorgeous ride around Lake Perris!

1-22-12: The weather cooperated and cleared up beautifully for our ride around Lake Perris this afternoon. Just check out the pictures in my FB album and you'll see what I'm talking about!

We'll definitely do this again! Everyone had a nice time and enjoy this scenic and tranquil ride around the lake.

4th Sun. (Jan. 22) ride - NEW ride!

1-14-12: This is the first ride that we are doing away from our usual bike path! Venturing out to other locations this year. ;-)

For this ride, will stick fairly close to home: Lake Perris State Park and Rec area, in Moreno Valley. There's a nice bike path that goes around the lake, a bit of a hike-a-bike to get to the dam, and then a nice ride along the dam and back to the parking lot.

Being a state park, don't forget your pass or pay $10/car so car pool if you can. They don't charge people to bike into the park, but there is no parking lots outside of the park and you can't park along the road.

From the map at this link (http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24004), will try and park at Lot 11 (closest to the Moreno entrance). If that is closed, will keep working our way down till we get to the first open parking lot.

Call me on my cell (909-747-5935) if you can't find us. ;-)

The link above also has directions if you've never been here before.

It's a nice paved bike path that goes around the lake. It says it's 9 miles long, but from what we've measured, it's more like 13 miles from parking lot to parking lot.

Prep time: 12:30 - 1:30 PM

Heading off on the ride: 1:30 PM

Approximate finish time: 2:47 PM (short hike-a-bike section to get to dam)

Looking forward to seeing you there! Hope it's not windy like last time. LOL!

BTW, if you're in MeetUp.org, join TCF there and then you can RSVP so I know if you're attending or not.

1st ride of 2012: WINDY 65!

1-8-12: Whew! The first ride of 2012 was THE windiest I have ever experienced. The news reported winds of up to 65 MPH!

Nevertheless, had a few brave souls who made it all the way to Mt. Rubidoux and back. Check out the pixs and hope to see you at our next ride Jan. 22, 1:30 PM!

Looking at my Endomondo data, some of the splits are telling:

Miles 1-9 (heading to Mt. Rubi) ave. between 4 & 5 min. miles, with one 7 min. mile.
Miles 10 - 15 (heading back) ave. between 8 and 11 min. miles!
Miles 16-18 (after Robin got picked up and trying to catch the other two) ave. 5 min miles.

Total Data: 18.14 miles completed in 2:02 hours. Ave. speed 6:46 min/mile, burned 2080 kcals!

Robin, Ada (red) and Raymond raise their hands in victory as we headed towards Mt. Rubidoux. They laughed at the wind. Little did we know the wind would have the last laugh on the way back!!

Yeah! We made it!!!

Mandy (left) and Sarah (right end) joined us as well.

To see the rest of the pixs, especially of the challenging ride back in the strongest head wind ever, click HERE.

Ride this Sun...

12-5-11: Here's our Dec. schedule, as a reminder!

Dec. 11, 9:00 AM
Dec. 18, 1:30 PM

Hope to see you out there--let's burn some of those holiday calories off!!! ;-)

Great 1st afternoon ride! Dec schedule...

11-29-11: We had a great weather for our 1st afternoon ride of the season. Saw long-time member Jeanne F. on this ride (she's been riding with us for over 10 years! We did a triathlon together way back in '01 or so, so it was good to see her again.)

Check out our pictures in my Facebook album (you don't need to be in FB to see pixs).

TCF regular Shawndra was there, and a whole bunch of girls and families joined us as well, as you can see in the pictures.

Look forward to more afternoon rides on the 4th Sun. of each month while the weather is cool.

DEC. SCHEDULE

2nd Sun, Dec. 11 - now that it's cooler, several have asked if we could move the AM ride an hour later, so our "meet" time is at 9:00 AM instead of 8:00 AM starting Dec. 11. That'll give some of you an extra hour to sleep in (like my daughter!)

CHANGE to 3rd Sun, Dec. 18, 1:30 PM - since the 4th Sun. is Christmas Day, I didn't want to compete with that (even though I'm still going to ride that day ;-) I'm moving the scheduled ride to the 3rd Sun. Please note this change!

Hope to see you out there sometime, either for our AM or PM or both rides! ;-) If you're like me, you have plenty of calories to burn off from the holidays.

CU on the bike path soon!

Dr. Ernie
TCF Director

ps. On the "off" scheduled days, I still ride on Sundays on the dirt at Hulda Crooks Park, usually in the AMs, so if you want to join in, just text me for last-minute details (909-747-5935).

Nov. 13 ride is "FREE" for all!; Afternoon ride...

11-10-11: Due to the Mission Inn run and the closure of the Santa Ana River Trail bike path near Mt. Rubidoux (the turnaround point for the half marathon is on the bike path), and because some of us will be running in the Mission Inn run, the organized ride for this Sun. is FREE (i.e. you can ride wherever you want).

Afternoon rides to start Nov. 27!
Now that it's nice and cool, we will begin rides in the afternoon at 1:30 PM so we get done well before sunset.

Now here's the question: should we do afernoon rides on ONE or BOTH of the Sundays while it's cool? I think I can set up a survey for this to the right, so if you see a survey, go ahead and click your preference. If you don't see a survey, e-mail one of the following choices to teamcyclefit@gmail.com:

a. 2nd Sun. AM; 4th Sun. PM
b. Both 2nd and 4th Suns in afternoon
c. Either a or b is fine, I can ride both times

Thanks!

Gorgeous ride!

10-23-11: It was a beautiful day for a ride--perfect temps, no wind. We had the pleasure of having Cyclery USA's GM Jon who joined us and did a few tune-ups. Got to ride with him quite a bit and learned all about his life before Cyclery USA.

Besides the usual regular riders, I let another couple ride my tandem because Elena crashed hard on her mountain bike a few days earlier and was still healing, so we figured that she could ride the tandem and reduce pressure on her right shoulder. Check out the pixs to see how she and her hubby Paul did!

Also had John Choi do another training run for the Mission Inn Half while his wife Nanci rode her mtn. bike (wise choice!). He was running 10 miles, so we were surprised to catch him on the way back. Turns out his knee was hurting as was his hip, so he decided to do the 10K instead! Guess our mantra, "10K is OK" finally sunk in....LOL!!!

Speaking of the Mission Inn Run, it's on Nov. 13, which happens to be the 2nd Sun of the month so a number of us will be running on the SART bike path in that event. In fact, you won't be able to ride all the way to Mt. Rubidoux because the path will be closed for the event (blocked by an ambulance), so you won't be able to go our usual distance. That might be a good day to do your own ride somewhere else like at the beach or mountains!

Enjoy the pictures!