June 15 and 16 Rides

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Saturday 7 am depart McDonald Woods Forest Preserve on Grass Lake Road

We are planning on Lake Geneva 75 miles. Twin Lakes is a good turn around if you don’t want to go the full distance. But you may be going back solo if you choose that option. Expect 4.5 hours riding. Bring food, we will short Bio Break in Twin Lakes, same in LG.

Sunday 7 am depart McDonald Woods Forest Preserve on Grass Lake Road

We are planning on Twin Lakes or Kenosha 50 miles. 3 hours ride time.

Both of these rides are planned training for our longer rides coming up. Get use to eating and riding. Steady pace making and working together will be encouraged.

3-Day 300 Miles

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Veloist 3 Day 350

For those of you that are joining or still considering joining the 3-Day 300 Ride July 18, 19 and 20 here is a basic milage build to help you get ready.

We have about five weeks to go and you will need to build your miles each week. Our Weekend Rides will provide the “big” rides of the week but you will need to add more during the week. The closer to the weekend ride, the better. There is no doubt we can all do the century ride, the trick is doing it three times in a row. So you need to condition your body and eating habits to get ready.

Week one | Sat 75 | Sun 50 | 25 | 25 mid week | 175

Week two | Sat 90 | Sun 50 | 25 | 25 mid week | 190

Week three | Sat 75 | Sun 75 | 25 | 25 mid week | 200

Week four | Sat 75 | Sun 75 | 50 | 25 mid week | 225

Week five | Light rides | Rest to Event

You should also consume large amounts of beer after your training rides, since we will be doing that also on the event days. Conditioning should take in all parts of the ride.

We are working on the routes and a place to stay.

New Start Location for all Rides

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We will now start all of our rides from the parking lot at McDonald Woods Forest Preserve in Lindenhurst.

It’s located on Grass Lake Road about a mile west of Beck Road. We are starting there to avoid bad roads and construction on Beck Road this summer.

Saturday and Sunday Rides start at 7am.


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June 8 and 9 Rides

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Saturday | No official Ride, we are riding the BCLC Ramble on Sunday | Next week rides start at 7am

Sunday 7 am depart Wilmot, WI High School for the BCLC 100 mile Ramble

Get there early to register and we can leave by 7am. Join us for as long or short as you would like. We will try to stay together but will look to maintain 17.5 average to make the 100 miles in good time.

Next week we are back to 7am starts on both days and the miles will climb getting ready for our 3 Day 300 Ride.

Newest Member

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Hey Veloists, we have a new member in the Netherlands riding with Harm Job, this is his pal Joost Posthuma–the newest honorary member of Veloist Cycling Club. Joost recently retired from Trek so he can kick your ass.

Joost

You can follow him on Twitter here.

You can follow Harm Job on Twitter here.

And look he can even fix your flats if we ever go over and ride with them.

joost flat

June 1 and 2 Rides

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Saturday 8 am depart Lake Forest Health and Fitness | We are back to the original starting place.

We are looking for a longer ride tomorrow up to 75 miles. We will go north to Burlington or Lake Geneva with a turnaround option in the Twin Lakes area if you don’t want to go the full distance. But you may be going back solo if you choose that option, maybe not. Short 3 hours, Long 4 hours.

Sunday 8 am depart Lake Forest Health and Fitness | We are back to the original starting place.

Ride up to Wilmot area, or straight north depending on group, weather and legs. 2 hours 16 average.

Next week we are planning on flipping the days, Sunday will be 100 miles BCLC Ramble. Saturday will be the shorter ride. Don’t forget to notify your home office.

Memorial Day Monday Ride

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We had a good Saturday and Sunday ride hoping for dry weather on Monday.

Monday 8 am depart Lake Forest Health and Fitness, Gurnee NOT Wal-mart

Could go back up to Twin Lakes 50 miles, if it looks clear we will go to Burlington, WI 70 miles.

Dress in layers, cool start.

Monday 8 am depart Lake Forest Health and Fitness, Gurnee NOT Wal-mart