Category Archives: Rides

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Collegiate and amateur racing in the New York Times

This isn’t really about MIT directly, but a recent post from the New York Times’s City Room blog deserves a shout-out. It’s called “For Would-Be Armstrongs, Some Bike Racing Tips,” and it’s all about the transition from riding to racing in the amateur and collegiate circuits.

It also features advice from the coach and riders from my own undergraduate alma mater, the Columbia University Cycling Team. ECCC pride!

Columbia is a squad that has had an enormous amount of success in the past few years and has turned itself into one of the largest and most successful organizations in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference. The Lions almost always place talented and skilled riders in every men’s and women’s category. So it’s well worth reading their advice in the Times post.

Rides

Jose’s new 80-mile loop

From the recently crowned Fitchburg cat 3 champion comes a new 80-mile ride to test your legs…and your navigational skillz.

Hi everyone,

I’ve just finalized “The Green Ride”. It’s a beautiful, shade covered, calm 80 mile loop on nice roads, with a fair amount of climbing. It leaves via the usual way to Dover, and comes back from Concord using a brand new route. You can think of this as “the new Pie Ride”. The only real caveat is the number of turns. It’s online now at http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2982237.

More goodies, including a PDF cue sheet and various topographic files, will be posted soon.

Rides

Return of the ICIC

The Intercollegiate Ice Cream ride series kicks off this week!  The ICIC is weekly summertime ride to different Boston-area ice cream stands for the sake of being social with other collegiate-minded cyclists.  Hosted MIT and Harvard, this is the fourth year of fun.

Rides leave from Edward Sennott Park (Broadway, between Prospect and Columbia) at 5:15 PM on Thursdays, June through August.  They are aimed at social and recreational cyclists, 10-12 mph and 15-20 miles.  Bring a bike, a helmet, water, and a spare tube if you’d like to join in.

Rides

Google Calendar

Hello MIT Cycling Community,
We have a new Google calendar on the http://mitcycling.org home page that we will be using exclusively for events scheduling for both club events and team events, for all disciplines road, mountain, cyclocross, and track. Note the calendar can be added to your own personal calendar if you have a google account.

For the time being, If you would like to add special rides, races, or cycling events to the calendar, please email Michael Hamilton with the date, time, location, and event description, and we’ll make sure to get the events up on the calendar. For regular training rides with short notice (less than 2 days notice), please continue to post to the cycling-club, mitoc-bike, or cycling-race lists.

Rides

Ride Leaders Needed

The City of Boston has a really cool event Friday morning August 22nd, called Bike Friday which gets new riders to try cycling to work. The police do a rolling enclosure (sorry, no blue lights). Anyway, we would love some more volunteer leaders to help on the Newton, W. Roxbury, Lexington and JP routes. You will even be back at school by 9 or 10!!

Let Nicole know if you are interested.

Info is at http://www.cityofboston.gov/bikes/bikefridays.asp