Saturday Rides Starting from Starbucks in Rosemount, MN
It looks like we’ll have another perfect summer day for our group ride Saturday, and we’re going to head to Cannon Falls following our counterclockwise route. If you have the time and energy to ride longer, you may want to add 25 miles and another 1000 feet of elevation by going to Welch before returning to Rosemount. We’ll all stop for a break at Hi-Quality Bakery in Cannon Falls. As usual, the ride starts from Starbucks at 08:00.
Read MoreSaturday’s ride will be to Brick Oven Bakery in Northfield via our 56-mile counterclockwise route. During the ride, it should be mostly cloudy with temps from 68 to 75 and light winds.
For those of you looking for a ride Monday, you may want to do the Great Scott Bike Ride. They have 25 and 50-mile routes leaving from Lakefront Park in Prior Lake at 08:00. There’s a good chance of rain Monday, so we won’t have our own ride.
The 2022 Tour de France will begin Friday in Copenhagen with an individual time trial and two more days of flat racing in Denmark before the race transfers to France. The race airs live on NBC, USA and Peacock.
Once again, the weather looks questionable for a group ride Saturday, so we’re going to ride to Edina via the Minnesota Valley State Trail on Sunday morning. The ride will start from Rosemount at 08:00 and we’ll have a mid-ride stop at Hyland Lake Park Reserve. The weather Sunday will be cool, for this time of year, with temps in the 60s, partly cloudy skies, and 15 mph wind from the northwest.
Read MoreThis weekend, we finally have a Saturday without a threat of rain (that never arrives). The route will be Cannon Falls clockwise. Hopefully, Hi-Quality has a better selection for us than our last trip there. The weather should be good with mostly sunny skies, temps from 65 to 75 degrees, and SE winds from 9 to 11 mph.
Read MoreOur group ride this weekend will be Sunday morning because, for the third week in a row, rain is forecast to arrive Saturday, and this week it looks more likely that the forecast will come true. Sunday’s ride will start at 08:00 and follow our Revenna Trail route clockwise. The weather Sunday morning should be mostly cloudy with temps from 65 to 72 and an east wind at 6 mph.
Read MoreRain? What rain?
I woke up this morning to find that they've completely changed our weather forecast for today, and it's going to be partly cloudy with moderate SSW winds, so let's ride outside today at 08:00. We'll ride to Northfield again, but in the opposite direction as last week.
Read MoreWe’ll be doing a bonus ride Monday, Memorial Day, from Hyland Lake Park Preserve in Bloomington to Jordan. The ride will loosely follow this route, since some of it is underwater. We’ll start at 08:00 and head west to Shakopee before heading south to Jordan.
It should be partly cloudy with temps from 75 to 82 and a south wind from 10 to 15 mph.
Read MoreSaturday’s ride will be to Northfield, and our first trip there this season. We’ll start at 13:00 and head east to Coates before heading south to Hampton and Northfield. There will be a stop at Brick Oven Bakery before heading back via Farmington. There’s a 50% chance of rain in the morning, so we’re starting after lunch.
In the afternoon, it should be partly cloudy with temps in the upper 70s and a south wind at 16 to 20 mph.
Read MoreIn case you haven’t noticed, Black Dog Trail has been flooded near I-35W since Sunday. The river bottoms and many roads and trails near the Minnesota River are now under water. The national weather service says the water is expected to rise above flood stage Thursday evening to a crest of 702.5 feet early Sunday afternoon. The last time the river was that high was 1985.
Flooding and construction limit our options for a northerly ride this week, so I’ve modified our Minneapolis route to cross the Minnesota River at I-494, rather than the Mendota Bridge, which is closed for construction through June. This alternate Midtown Greenway loop includes a rest stop at Sebastian Joe’s Ice Cream Shop near Lake Harriet and a short stop at Grand Performance, our club’s bike shop. Expect more trails, stops, and therefore more time for this ride than most of our rides. The weather during the ride is expected to be cloudy with temps from 47 to 50 degrees and NNW winds at 9 mph.
Read MoreSaturday, 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.
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