Come on out to the Monday Night Ride, tonight at 6pm from the Nanaimo Aquatic Center!

Hope to see lots of you out for a ride tomorrow night. If numbers call for it we will have 3 groups as usual at different paces. Once again this is a "no drop" ride and you will learn some technique along the way. We leave from the NIC parking lot at 6pm and return by 715-730. Everyone is welcome, you just need to sign our club waiver or be a member already.

See you tomorrow for a fun group ride.

We will have our regular Monday night Developmental ride tomorrow. But if you want to learn to sprint then there is that option as well. Patrick will take a group over to Maxey road and do some "match sprints". He will lead a how to clinic beforehand. Why not try it out?See you tomorrow.

Building on the idea surrounding our Monday night Development rides, on Monday June 20 we will be running a sprint clinic. Sprinting or Match sprinting is usually a track cycling event for between two to four riders over a short distance.  For our purposes we will be using Maxey road where two riders will flip a coin to decide who leads and then sprint the 300m back to the finish line just before Durnin road.  The lead rider can choose to choose to ride slow and force the other rider to move in front allowing them to draft and save energy for the final sprint.  Alternatively, the lead rider can also choose to drop the hammer from the start and try to out pace their opponent for the entire distance.

If there are enough riders we will run team sprints where four riders take the course working in teams of two.  In team sprints one rider will typically do the majority of the work and pulling their team mate to the line where they can then accelerate to cross the line first at a much higher speed than if they were riding alone.

Any riders interested will meet up at six pm at the NIC, from there we’ll take a short warm up ride up Jingle pot road and down East wellington to Maxey road.  After a brief safety and coaching speech there will be a demonstration and opportunity for all riders to have a try at it.

Again everyone is welcome to come out.  Sprinting is a great way to work on your fitness and speed with lots of short, high intensity effort with time to recover while the next riders give it a go.

Hope to see you out there.

This is a reminder that Robin of Coal City Cycles will be leading another Flat repair session at 5:15 in the NIC parking lot. Our regular Developmental ride will follow at 6pm. Many of you are wanting to learn how to use your CO2 inflator quizmo and we are encouraging you to do so. Therefore Robin will bring some extra CO2 cartridges in case you need to purchase another one.

See all you keen riders on Monday!