On Saturday, our ride will start from Starbucks at 9:00 and we’ll travel from Rosemount to Prior Lake in a counterclockwise direction. This 50-mile route has around 1,800 feet of elevation for a good challenge. Our mid-ride stop will be in downtown Prior Lake, where you can buy pastries from bakeries at the farmer’s market or Edelweiss bakery.

Our unseasonably warm weather will continue through this weekend, so we’re going to do a bonus ride to Prior Lake on Saturday afternoon, starting from Starbucks at 1:00 pm. We’ll have highs in the 50s, with sunny skies and west winds about 7 mph.

This week, we’re going to ride from Rosemount to Prior Lake counterclockwise. This 50-mile loop includes a stop at the street market in downtown Prior Lake. Due to construction on Diamond Path at 140th Street, we will return to Starbucks via Evermoor and Shannon Parkways.

Saturday's ride will be to Prior Lake via Black Dog Lake and returning via Farmington. This 62-mile route starts out like last week's ride, but we'll take a different route to Prior Lake via the newly raised and paved trail along I-35W in Burnsville. Kudos to the City of Burnsville for raising this trail to reduce the number of closures due to flooding going forward!

After leaving our stop in Prior Lake, we'll head a little further south before heading west to Farmington. In Farmington, you have the option of a shorter return via Hwy 3 for a 54-mile ride, which also avoids CR46.

For our ride this week, we will be heading west from Rosemount to Bloomington and Prior Lake counterclockwise. We’ll get there by going through Bloomington, because the trail along Hwy 35W is still closed. Burnsville is raising the trail, to avoid future closures due to flooding, and they moved the opening date back a week. This route is 54 miles and has about 2100 feet of climbing. We’ll stop in Prior Lake before returning to Rosemount.

This week, starting at 08:00 from Starbucks, we’re heading west to Prior Lake and stopping at Edelwiess Bakery before returning to Rosemount. We’ll avoid flooding at Black Dog Lake trail by staying on high ground near Hwy 13 in Eagan and Burnsville.

This week’s ride will be the same as last week. Again, the ride will start at 10:00 from Rosemount, and it will continue through Bloomington and Prior Lake. This is a new route created for last week’s ride, because we have to ride around the construction at I-35W and Cliff Rd in Burnsville. Those of you who enjoyed this route last week can show the route to those who missed last week’s ride. It’s unusual to have shut similar weather two weeks in a row, and have our routes limited by one small construction project, so I hope you enjoy the ride redux and the wonderful fall colors.

This week’s ride will start at 10:00 from Rosemount, and it will continue through Bloomington and Prior Lake. This is a new route, because we have to ride around the construction at I-35W and Cliff Rd in Burnsville. We’ve ridden nearly all of this route this summer, just not in one ride. I’ve included a shortcut in Eagan that’s an alternative to Silver Bell Road.

Saturday's club ride will be to Prior Lake counter clockwise. As usual, we will start at 08:00 from Starbucks in Rosemount. The weather should be great during the ride with temps from 68 to 82 degrees, sunny skies and a SW wind from 6 to 10 mph.

Saturday, we're going to follow our Prior Lake route clockwise. This 50-mile loop has a stop at Edelweiss Bakery. Our ride will start at 08:00 from Starbucks in Rosemount this week, and every week from now on, unless otherwise noted. The weather should be sunny with temps from about 64 to 71 degrees and wind from the south to west at 9 to 13 mph.