Weekly Rides & Workouts — Updated August 2011
*Almost all rides are coordinated and adjusted via the email list. So use these as a guide, but check the email list to find other people to ride with. Here are instructions for joining the email list.
Morning Coffee Rides
15-17 mph, to Hillsborough (Weaver St Market) & back. Departure time is 6:40am, and we usually get back around 8:20-8:30am.
This ride is variable, but Matt usually leads it 2-3 times per week. Check the email list for confirmation, or email Matt (mtr4@duke.edu) for more details.
Tuesday Night Bike Chain Ride
This is NOT an official Duke event, but is a great training ride. The Bike Chain ride is a ~1.5 hour, 28-mile ride that tackles the Mt Sinai hill twice. The first time up is fast-paced, but regroups a bit at the top. After looping around, the pace picks up and this ride turns into an aggressive race on the second time up the hill. Typically breakaways and chase groups emerge by the top of Sinai, and it’s a race to the final sprint line at the end of NC-10. This is a regular ride throughout the summer, pending weather.
Start details: 5:30pm from the old Bicycle Chain location (construction site next to whole foods)
Route
A Group: ~20+ mph. This will turn into a fast, punchy ride that finishes out NC-10
B Group: rolls out with the A group, and pauses for ~5 minutes at the intersection of Mt. Sinai rd and Kerley rd. Pace will be more around 17-20mph.
Thursday Night Tempo Ride
New ride being setup. Leaves from the old Bicycle Chain durham location (next to Whole Foods) at 6pm. Chris Oishi is the point contact for this ride: acoishi@duke.edu. Check the email list for week-to-week details.
Saturday Morning Endurance Ride
This ride typically leaves at 8am or 9am from the speed bump / crosswalk on Towerview Drive and many times will meet up with the P-ride. Confirmation of the ride will be sent on the email list each week; summertime excursions to Wake Forest, Bahama, and other nearby cool places are common too.
Sunday Social Ride
Some people on the team happen to like ice cream and chocolate milk in addition to cycling. So most Sundays, we have either a 30 mile relaxed ride to and from Maple View Farm or Weaver Street Market in Hillsborough. This ride typically averages ~16-19 mph and is sometimes social & easy and sometimes a moderate aerobic pace. Come out to this ride and meet other cycling enthusiasts!
P-Ride
Mix it up with the local amateur racers on this long-standing ride that leaves from Wilson Park in Carrboro. It got its name from the original Performance Bicycle Shop in downtown Carrboro where the ride began. The route below includes travel to and from Durham for a total of 74 miles. This is a fast ride that averages 22-24+mph and can sometimes be large and a little chaotic, so be careful.
Start Details: 8am from Towerview speed cobbles (if going from Duke). 9:15am summer time P-ride start time from Wilson Park. Note that this changes in the fall back to 10:15am start time…