Draughters Group Ride on Sunday, and other stuff

Group ride:  Gord will be leading our first mountain bike ride on Sunday, 22 July, leaving the Station Flats parking lot at 10:00 am.  For those who don’t know the location, it is West of Bragg Creek on Highway 66.  Google ‘station flats parking lot’ and it is on Google Maps.  The ride will be no more than 2 hours, and it will be on trials no harder than intermediate at times, so should be good even if you are not a strong technical rider (i.e. me).  As usual, we will swing by the conveniently located brewery on the way back into town if people are interested.

 

Jerseys:  Attached is the final design for the jersey (thanks Kelsey and Shack).  Once we have approximate pricing and delivery times, we will be sending out the sizing chart and asking for orders.

 

WNRS:  The Draughters will be hosting the final race of the series on 15 August.  It will be a 16 km individual time trial taking place in Springbank.  Ideally we would have five volunteers, two at the start, two on the course at a couple of corners to make sure people don’t get lost, and one at the finish.   The race will start right by Springbank High School at 18:30, and depending on the number of riders, will likely be done no later than 19:30 (riders will leave every 30 seconds and the course takes less than 30 minutes to ride).  You wouldn’t need to be at the race until 18:15 and I’m trying to set up something at the brewery afterwards.  Please let me know if you can help out.  Once you see how laid back and fun it is, you’ll be signing up for next year.

 

Thanks and all the best,

 

Mike

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Hi there,
Not sure how many of you mtn bike too but we are biking the fun new trails in west bragg Tues night.  Meet at parking lot for telephone loop at 6:45. The new trails are on the other side. We have a 2 tone brown outback.
Wilma

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Dear Draughters (and Mike in particular)

First off, thank you very much for keeping on this list despite my inability, thus far, to show up.  Most of you haven't met me yet but I look forward to meeting you before the days shorten and we all start thinking about tuning up the trainer again.  I just quickly wanted to mention I rode the Highwood Pass Gran Fondo yesterday.  Anyone else do it?  For those of you who haven't ridden this road (from Longview to Stoney Nakoda Casino on HW1), you simply *have* to, as soon as possible.  It is nothing short of awesome and I am confident in saying it would (with some extension, maybe on to Banff) rank as one of the top stages of any of the grand tours.  I was riding 'domestique' for a friend's father who was riding to celebrate his 60th birthday, so I had plenty of time to look around and enjoy the ride rather than the more usual focus on someone else's derailleur and threshold hear rates.

Thanks, keep spinning, and hopefully see you soon,

Dominic Orsler 

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Hi there - If anyone is interested in a ride tomorrow morning, I will be heading out around 930 -10 on Lower Springbank Road. Would be interested in other rides too after work if that suits anyone.

Enjoy the heat.

Cheers,

Alex

Mike - I could be available to volunteer depending on the date.

Draughters Update

Sorry for the recent lack of e-mails.  I’ve been out of town the last few weekends and with the exception of 22 July, will not be able to make a Sunday ride until 12 August.  On the odd chance anyone else wants to organize a group ride, I’ve included everyone’s e-mail addresses on this message.  Feel free to hit reply all to set something up.  I’m also happy to give anyone who wants access the ability to post on our blog.  Just send me a quick e-mail.  A few updates on some other things:

Group rides:  Hit reply all now and set something up.  It will help work off the mini-donuts from Stampede.  Lots of people ride both road and mountain if you want to mix things up.  And it doesn’t have to be on the weekend, if weekdays work better.

Jerseys:  Kelsey and Shack have created some preliminary designs that look really good.  Once a final design is agreed upon, we’ll send out a separate e-mail regarding orders.

WNRS:  The Draughters will be hosting a race in early August, either on the 1^st or 15^th.  Please let me know if you have any interest in volunteering, usually at the start or on the course making sure there are no wrong turns.  More details to follow once I have them.

I hope everyone has a great summer, and I look forward to sharing the odd ride as schedules line up,

Mike