Saturday - June 8, 2013 - Road Ride - Fall City to Carnation (and other farm towns)

We will leave Bethany Greenlake at 9:30AM. We will meet at BCC Greenlake to consolidate cars and carpool together. If you prefer to meet at Fall City, please contact me directly. 

Starting in Fall City, we will bike along a fairly low traffic farm road that runs parallel to the Snoqualmie River. We will ride until we get to the small town of Carnation, where we can stop and either have a coffee or, continue and add mileage or just turn back.

I would like to have the pace be at least 12mph, which I think that most of you were able to keep easily. Please be aware that this ride will be along a road with traffic.

Here is a link with the route.

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/21796976

Below are the details.

Date/Time and Meeting point for the ride.

     Saturday, June 8th, 201 9:30AM -       Bethany Community Church - Greenlake driving to Fall City

     I will be in the rear parking lot of the church in my White Toyota 4Runner. I have a black road bike mounted to a rack.

Destination (Start and finish)

     Start: Fall City Downtown Area

     Turn Around:  Carnation Downtown Area (or beyond)

     Finish: Fall City Downtown Area

Terrain (Flat, Hilly, etc.)

     The ride is pretty flat for the most part.

Distance of the ride (Mileage)

     The distance of the ride will be around 20ish miles round trip. We can decide how we are all feeling and adjust the ride accordingly. If it rains it may cut the ride down, dependent on who is all riding.

Welcome 2013 Summer Cycling Riders

Hey Everybody!

Just wanted to check in and welcome everybody to the Bethany Summer Cycling Community Group. Right now this is the proposed schedule: 

Date - Route - (Starting City)

6/8 - Farm Road Ride Carnation & East King County Farm County (Fall City, WA)

7/6 - Centennial Trail (Snohomish, WA) 

7/20 - Cedar River Trail, (Renton, WA)

8/3 - Mercer Island Loop, (Seattle, WA)

8/17 - ?

I am still working on details for the rides (this weekend is planned out, more about that later..). I am sorry about the large gap between rides in June, but I have to go to Spain and it wasn't planned when I decided lead the group.

A little about the group. For the past few years we have been going on rides all around the Puget Sound. Our range is typically as far north as Snohomish and as far south as Puyallup. We have gone on some rides in Wenatchee and Cle Elum as well. I plan to pepper in some mountain bike rides on non listed dates. I will email out the group when I come up with those, but think of them as bonus rides....

Please keep in mind that this is a physical activity. I do not expect you to be a Tour de France professional, but I do expect an ability to ride your bike comfortably at a reasonable pace for the safety of yourself and the group. I understand there are slower people and faster people, this is not a competitive group, its a fun and recreational group.

How the group typically works: 

1. I sent out an email with a pretty detailed plan for the ride. I try to get that out to you all a week before the ride. I will cross post everything on a blog that I keep at: http://cyclingbcc.blogspot.com/ 
2. Meet at BCC Greenlake to consolidate cars.
3. Drive to starting point.
4. Ride.

If you have any questions, pop me an email, or call me, or text me.