Saturday Rides Starting from Starbucks in Rosemount, MN
Finally, our weather has changed for the better here in Minnesota! So, this week, we’re going to be leaving Rosemount at 08:00 and riding east to Hastings and on to Revenna Trail. This 54-mile route is a little longer than our earlier rides this season, and we’ll keep everyone together so that everyone has a good time and doesn’t get dropped — at least until we get to Coates.
Read MoreThis weekend’s ride will be Sunday morning at 08:00, because it’s supposed to rain all day Saturday and it will be warm Sunday morning. The route will be to Prior Lake via Black Dog Lake counterclockwise. It will be windy from the WSW and this route should give folks shelter from the wind through much of the first half of the ride, and a tail wind from Prior Lake. During the ride, it should be about 48 degrees with partly sunny skies and 14 to 19 mph winds. If you’re feeling strong, go to the front and pull the group at a pace that everyone can maintain.
Read MoreThe rain and snow will be leaving us today and we will have sunny skies for our ride Saturday. This week’s ride will start at 1:00 p.m. Saturday from Starbucks and head north to St. Paul’s Summit Avenue on this 45-mile route. During the ride, we should have temps in the mid 40s with light NW winds and sunny to partly-cloudy skies.
Read MoreIt 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.
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Read MoreSpring is finally here and we’re going to share our first outdoor group ride of the season Saturday afternoon! We’ll gather at our usual meeting place, Starbucks in Rosemount. The ride will start at 1:00 pm and we’ll follow the 45-mile Castle Rock loop clockwise. The weather during the ride should be about 50 to 55 degrees with SE winds at 5 to 8 mph and partly cloudy skies.
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Read MoreThis year, 21 people completed our 2021 Rider Satisfaction Survey, which was open September through December, and we collected feedback via a short, nine-question survey. The survey, over the last four years, has been largely the same, with minor changes to questions 5 (ride speed), 6 (preferred routes), and 7 (cycling kit), some years.
Read MoreThis week’s group ride will be indoors on Zwift at 08:00. We’ll ride the 43-mile Big Foot Hills route, which should take about two hours. More than 40 of you who follow me (Cory Wagner) on Zwift, have already been invited to the ride. If you didn’t get invited, check your group events in Zwift, follow me so I can invite you, or contact me.
Read MoreWill 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.
Read MoreSaturday, we have another good-weather day for riding, and we’re going to get started at 10:00. This week’s route will follow our 45-mile Orchard Lake route counterclockwise. It’s been nearly a year since we’ve ridden this route. During the ride, it will start off partly cloudy and clear up by the end, we’ll have temps from 42 to 50 degrees, and south winds from 3 to 5 mph.
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