GGCC Club Ride details for Sunday 17th March 2019 - North 48 miles - Anti clockwise
This week we're sticking to our standard North route that was postponed from last week.
Heading out from the Green we'll re-group at the Crowood Hotel and split into pace groups. We'll then head North through Stepps, Kilsyth towards Lennoxtown, with the option of the Crow Road for those so inclined. Coffee stop at the Kirkhouse, before heading back to Glasgow via Milngavie & 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 forecast to be dry with sunny intervals, temperature around 4-7 degrees, and winds of 7mph from the West 12mph gusting to 26mph.
We will split into STEADY, CHALLENGE, CHEEKY CHALLENGE and RACE PACE(officially back!!) 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 is back on!!!!! Average 20+ mph
**Please try and ride to the overall speeds of the above guides.
ONLY 1 OFFICIAL STOP -Kirkhouse for coffee
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