Good Friday Season Opener: Dunbow Area, Int, 50k, Lyle O

Coordinator: Lyle Opseth

Distance: 50 km

Pace: 21 - 23 kph 

Elevation Gain: 340 m

Location: Heritage Pointe Plaza on Dunbow Rd (412 Pine Creek Road, De Winton Alberta, T0L 0X0

This ride is a companion ride to Heather's ride. Heather's ride is for faster cyclists who can maintain a pace of 24+ km/h.

<Cranky>: I'm back for another season of giving you advice and questions. First, you need more humour in your ride announcements. I'll fall asleep if you don't make them more interesting. And, it's April. So, when is your first ride? You are late starting this year and I'm getting impatient.

<Coordinator>: You're back. Lucky me (I think). Some humour you say? Here is the announcement for my first ride and includes my weak attempt at humour. I hope you find it punny!

Looking at the weather forecast, it should be a "Good Friday" bike ride.

I'm starting off the season with the same ride I opened with last year. But it has been a cool spring and I'm running the ride a few weeks later than last year.

Some of us didn't spend our winter riding a trainer while staring at a basement wall; we spent our winter outdoors skiing or skating. We got some sun! But our legs are still trained to ski and skate so we want a ride meant to get our cycling legs back. We know we are fit and are ready to do an early spring ride as we get our legs used to spinning again.

Join us for a ride around the Dunbow area starting at Heritage Pointe. It's not too long, not too hilly and not too fast, just what we need this early in the season. The ride finishes with a fun little loop around Heritage Pointe Golf Course. We shouldn't need to watch for flying golf balls quite yet. And for those who aren't used to extended periods sitting on a saddle, you have the option to skip the golf course.

Getting there: We will meet at the mall at Heritage Pointe Plaza (i.e., Stockman's Restaurant and Lounge). This is on Dunbow Road east of Macleod Trail (Hwy 2A) and west of Deerfoot (Hwy QE2).

Safety tip: When regrouping, we will group shortly before or after the intersection at a pull out where there is space for the group to get fully off the road. NO GROUPING AT INTERSECTIONS. Thanks!