Ride Saturday, April 2

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It may not look like it outside now, but we will do another outdoor ride Saturday. It will be windy from the northwest Saturday afternoon, so I’ve shortened our normal Bloomington loop a few miles and we’ll do that loop clockwise. The ride will leave Starbucks in Rosemount at 1:00 pm. During the ride, it should be about 47 degrees with mostly sunny skies and WNW winds at 10 to 14 mph.

Our kit order has arrived. You may pick up your order before or after our rides.

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Ride Saturday, November 6

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Will this be our last outdoor ride for the season? Who knows what the weather has in store for us beyond next week? It’s going to be noticeably colder next weekend, so we may do a Zwift ride instead of a cold and windy outdoor ride. We’ll continue to schedule outdoor rides when the feels-like temps are above 40 and the roads are dry.

This week, we will ride outdoors at 09:00. During the ride, it will be sunny with temps from 46 to 57 degrees, and SSW winds from 6 to 8 mph. We’ll follow our Prior Lake via Black Dog Lake route counterclockwise. This 48-mile ride will stop in Prior Lake before the 20-mile return to Rosemount.

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Ride Saturday, October 2

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This weekend’s ride will follow our Tour of Bloomington route clockwise. Fall colors are starting to appear in Bloomington, so we will have a nice, scenic ride, with a stop Hyland Lake Park Reserve. The weather forecast says it may rain Saturday morning so, if it’s wet Saturday, I’ll postpone the ride to Sunday morning. Either day, the ride will start at 08:00 from Starbucks.

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Ride Saturday, September 25

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This week’s ride will start in Rosemount, at 08:00, and we’ll follow this modified version of our Prior Lake via Black Dog Lake counterclockwise. I’ve added a small change to the route to loop around town from the north before getting to our destination in Prior Lake. This adds a couple of miles and avoids the out-and-back along 160th Street in Prior Lake. We did this extra bit in the other direction on July 24. Let me know how you like it. The weather forecast says it will be partly cloudy with temps from 45 to 60 degrees, and west winds at 6 to 9 mph.

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2020 Rider Satisfaction Survey Results

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This year, 27 people completed our 2020 Rider Satisfaction Survey, which was open throughout September and October. (There are 42 paid members and 120 addresses on our mailing list.) We collected feedback via a short, nine-question survey. The survey, over the last three years, has been largely the same, with minor changes to questions 5 (ride speed), 6 (preferred routes) and 7 (cycling kit).

The first four questions were basic satisfaction inquiries. All participants reported that our group rides meet their needs, 96% of participants said they were satisfied or very satisfied with our club, and 96% said we have very-high-quality or high-quality rides. Safety of our rides was rated as above average or excellent by 92% of participants. None of these responses are surprising, because you’d probably riding elsewhere if we weren’t meeting these basic needs.

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Ride Saturday, October 31

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This week, we will be able to ride on the road outside. Starting at 1:00 PM, we will leave Rosemount and ride west to Prior Lake. We’ll skip the jog in downtown Prior Lake and stop at Cleary Lake Regional Park instead. This is a 45 or 55-mile route that we haven’t ridden since July 2019. We can choose the length at around mile 40. It will feel like 40 degrees, with partly sunny skies, temps from 45 to 47 degrees, and west winds at 15 mph.

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