Some people get in their cars after work, drive to a gym and ride a bicycle in front of a TV. Not a bad idea except for the driving part… and the gym part… and the TV.
The Bike Sweats are a series of 1 hour winter bike workouts. Bike riders of any fitness level are encouraged to join us. There are two different rides occurring twice a month on Wednesdays at 7PM.
- The 1st ride of the month starts at Joe’s Bike Shop and works on hill climbing. (ride dates are: 1/9, 2/6, 3/6 and 4/3 )
- The 2nd ride of the month starts at Lake Montebello (south parking lot) and works on sprinting and short hard efforts. (ride dates are: 1/23, 2/20, 3/20 and 4/17)
- See the “Notes, Pics and Reports” link at right for the next ride.
This is NOT intended to be a jock-fest. If you are a bad ass cyclist wanting to show us how fast you ride, please just stay home. This IS intended to be difficult. If you don’t want to push yourself hard, please just stay home. At best the Midweek Sweats will give fit and not-so-fit cyclists a fun bike workout.
After the rides, I’ll probably stop somewhere to drink a beer and you’re invited to that also. We don’t want to have a calorie deficit, do we?
Questions? Comments? Leave a reply or, just show up and see how you like it.
are you still doing these rides?
Olga,
The MidWeek Bike Sweats are a winter/early spring training ride.
I plan to make them weekly when we start them again in Dec.
There are a couple different routes I’ve used in the past, but this, http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2121182 is what we rode this year.
Best. -Bob
See ya on the 23rd at montebello!
Thanks for the heads-up, John. We are aware of the possibility for dangerous situations and have designed this ride to minimize them. The majority of riders will be going quite slow in fact. Also, these rides are just winter months and in my experience, only the hardiest of runners and bikers are out at 7PM on weeknights.
If you’re going to be sprinting around Lake Montebello, you may want to ride in the car lane, not the bike lane. A lot of people walk there (I’ve counted over 200 on a nice evening) and some of them (or their dogs) wander into the bike lane; I’ve seen several near-collisions of fast cyclists with pedestrians. The part with a median separating the bike+ped lanes from the cars is a particular problem, it’s great for kids and other slow cyclists but a fast cyclist really shouldn’t use it. Cars generally don’t go much over 25 mph around the lake, so you shouldn’t be pissing their drivers off too much.