GPC Weekly Ride Schedule

May change from month to month (Last modified Monday, June 17 2013, @ 12:08 PDT)

See our ride rating system to decode the secret markings 3/TM/50 etc.


Tuesdays   5/M,B/32   The Tuesday Evening Ride
Quick-paced hilly workout ride. We have separate M and B groups, with separate leaders. The focus -- especially for the B group; somewhat less for the M group -- is on intensity, hillclimbing, sprinting, positioning, and drafting. Meet 5:30 p.m. sharp at Spruce and Grizzly Peak Blvd, at the little plaza next to the reservoir (not the bus stop benches) for 5:35 p.m. departure. We arrive at Grizzly/Skyline approx 35 and 40 minutes after the departure time (for the B and M groups, respectively) for those who want to join there. To keep each group together yet still give everybody a good workout, we have explicitly defined parts of the course for easy, medium, hard, drafting, and regroups. Details regarding this, and more, are posted on-line at http://www.grizz.org/series/berk-tue.html. Please read that if it's your first time doing the ride. This ride runs from the first Tuesday in April to the last Tuesday in September. RAIN CANCELS. M group leader: Mark Abrahams (510) 524-1294. B group leader(s): one or more of Matt McHugh <mattmctour at gmail dot com>, Wes Lane <weslane at gmail dot com>, Steve Zavestoski <smzavestoski at mac dot com>, or (occasionally) Patrick Gordis pgordis@ comcast.net. On days that the B group has 10 or more riders, we will try to have 2 leaders for it.

Wednesdays   2/L/35 to 3/T/60   Deb's Diversions
35+ miles and smiles, hills and thrills, lunches and lattes. Meet at 10:00 a.m. (usually) for this ride. Helmets required. Rain cancels. For details join our email list at http://www.grizz.org/mailman/listinfo/wed_ride and check the list archives if you missed the current information. You can also contact Mark Sapiro, (415) 388-8910, <mark at msapiro dot net> if you can't get the information from the list.

Thursdays   3/TM/60-80   Duros West
This weekly ride often tours through West Marin, but sometimes travels to Napa, Sonoma, or Livermore, depending on the season. We meet at 9:00 a.m. We have frequent regroups and usually stop for a real lunch, if it is available on the route. For this week's leader and route see http://tinyurl.com/gpc-weeklyA. Weather cancellations will also be updated on the calendar. If you don't have web access you can call Mark Nienberg at (510) 812-9312 for the information.

Thursdays   4/TM!/20-25   Thursday Evening Ride
Meet at North Berkeley BART. Starting in May we meet at 5:50 p.m. for prompt 6:00 departure. A friendly TM ride with regroups. Up Spruce and out Grizzly Peak and Skyline, then down Shepherd Canyon and back to BART. Please bring lights. Ride repeats every Thursday. Keith Trummel, <ktrummel at adobe dot com> (510) 527-9832, Dean Lobovits, <lobovits at comcast dot net> (510) 527-4569, or Chris D'Andrea, <CvdAndrea at gmail dot com> (510) 548-9458

Fridays   4/M/20-30   Friday Tune-up Ride
Meet at Rockridge BART at 8:50 a.m. for sharp 9:00 departure. This ride will do various routes in the Oakland-Berkeley Hills. The pace will be M for riders doing more challenging weekend rides. There will be very short regroups with a possible coffee stop at or near the end. Bart Borland (510) 601-5062 <bart.borland at gmail dot com>, Brian Poedy <BrianPoedy at gmail dot com>, and Micky Bloom, (510) 206-4083. Rain cancels.


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