Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Training Season 2025

We keep riding! While our organizing principle in years past has always been the BikeMS, we have moved past that and are charting our own course.  Our mission remains the same though - riding with good friends in our beautiful state of New Mexico

The Penultimates and Friends on the way to Santa Fe in 2024

Our key events this year (like this year) will be:

  • Enchanted Circle Ride 8/9.  For those that are interested we will be doing the Enchanted Circle Ride in Red River.  Look like a tough, but beautiful ride.  We will rent a house (or two) and make a fun weekend of it!  
  • High Road to Santa Fe 9/13, where we ride from ABQ up to Santa Fe, have a nice lunch at El Parasol, then head to Santa Fe Brewing for some beverages and camaraderie, before taking the Railrunner back to ABQ.  Open to pushing it out, depending on interest.
  • Santa Fe Gourmet Classic: 10/4. A 62 mile ride with gourmet food at each rest stop catered by professional chefs.  Sure it may be difficult to climb for 15 miles post an amazing meal, but so worth it!

Below is the schedule for the Saturday rides.  Our general schedule in years past has been to be build up with progressive rides with the peak training toward the end of August.  This year we are going to mix it up, however, and spread out the rides a bit, so the schedule below may shift around as we finalize our ride schedule.  Also, a few TBD rides in there!  Please suggest some rides, and we may juggle the some things around.

There will might be an ride on Sundays too, but it is a bit more flexible, and is focused on shorter distances working up to about 50 miles by the end of the summer. Our normal departure time is 6 am from the (former) O'Neill's parking lot on Central! 

SATURDAY RIDE SCHEDULE

6/21Short city loop + Bike in Coffee20
6/28Inner City Loop CW36.1
7/5Modified City Loop CCW36.7
7/12Bernalillo Out and Back43
7/19City Loop CW53
7/26Crest Assault from Triangle26
8/2South 14 + Gutirrez Canyon63
8/9Enchanted Circle88,100
8/16Ride to San Felipe Pueblo69
8/23Ride to Placitas66
8/30TDB
9/6TDB
9/13Santa Fe63
9/20Lobo Cancer Challenge25,50
9/27
10/4Santa Fe Gourmet Classic62