2024 Edition of the Sunday Bike Ride with the Vertical Swimmer

The 17th year edition of the Sunday Bike Ride with the Vertical Swimmer commences Sunday, June 2, 2024. Meeting spot is GTown … Wisconsin and M Street, in the bank’s parking lot. Drop me an email (number55555 at yahoo dot com) if you are interested in joining. All paces are welcome. The ride will clip at 7 AM, sharp. Show up at 7:01 and you’ll be alone. Outside of a lightning storm, we will ride every Sunday regardless of weather.

Here are the things to know about the ride.

1. It’s a drop ride. Don’t expect that anyone will wait for you or to wait for anyone, so bring a friend. All skills, paces, and abilities are highly encouraged to come. The goal is to have enough pace groups out there so that no one has to ride alone. We have folks of various abilities so natural paces and group will form. We all start together and let paces organically build as the ride progresses.

2. I will send out cue sheets every week. You can ride the entire distance or turn back early. That’s your call. We get folks of all levels out there, so don’t be shy or intimidated to come out. A lot of people do not ride the entire distance.

3. Road bikes, Tri bikes, unicycles, and unicorns are welcome

4. Typical pace varies from week to week, depending on who shows up. The biggest group will be people who ride around my pace. If you can hold a 19-20 mph pace at the IM distance, you will have people to ride with every week. We won’t be averaging that pace for the entire ride … mostly because the hills out in the boonies are wicked. Expect extremely slow speed around the hills and a little bit more spectacular on the flats. We typically average around 18, if not a bit slower. Again, depending on who shows up.

5. Expect the group size to be quite small. Not everyone is crazy enough to log the kind of mileages we log on Sundays after Sundays after Sundays.

6. We still stop at predetermined gas stations, as dictated in the cue sheet, to reload on fluid and nutrition. Bring money and a selfie stick to document the rest stops.

7. We welcome everyone, especially those that can’t swim. If you swim like a fish and we find out about it, we will pee on our bikes while you are drafting off of us.

8. The ride is also wetsuit friendly, so don’t be afraid to bring one to the ride. No one will judge.

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RIDE SCHEDULE
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June 2
54 miles

June 9
70 miles

June 16
80 miles

June 23
89 miles

June 30
80 miles

July 7
89 miles

July 14
100 miles

July 21
70 miles

July 28
80 miles

Aug 4
89 miles

Aug 11
100 miles

Aug 18
80 miles

Aug 25
89 miles

Sep 1
100 Miles

Sep 8
Ironman Vietnam – 0.0 mile swim, 26.2 m run, and 117 miles on the bike. If it was easy, they’d call it Ironman Cambodia.

Sep 15
80 miles

Sep 22
70 miles

–Tuan

number55555 at yahoo dot com