A brief summary of upcoming CX stupidity/rides
Ryan Cousineau
CX ride:
http://cxwest.blogspot.com/2010/12/boxing-cross-2010.html
I commend it to you, though there's only a low chance I'll be able to
join up
On Tuesday, Dec. 28, Dan Spry has asked me to re-instigate the
Shortest Day CX ride*, and that sounded like a good idea. But I also
want to go to the Velodrome for the excellent 4-day race.
Solution: 7 pm, meet at Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station, ride
from there to the velodrome, via the Trans-Canada Trail. That takes us
through several interesting Burrard Inlet parks: New Brighton,
Montrose, and Confederation. We'll then watch the races (which run
until 10:30 pm) and eat and drink. A bike light bright enough to see
by is mandatory, but if you're desperate to come I do have a spare
light. Also, the trails are easy enough that you could probably do
this ride on a road bike.
And finally, I must once again announce that the annual Bill Werbeniuk
New Year's Day Polar Bear Cyclocross Ride is NOT happening! We will
NOT rendezvous at Calhoun's at 1pm (note later start as a mercy to
people who don't just stay up all night), you should NOT fortify your
water bottle ("Tobin" (not his real name) would surely NOT recommend
Bailey's and hot chocolate), and we will NOT ride through some
combination of Vanier/Jericho/Pacific Spirit/Stanley Park/whatever,
ending when our feet get too cold.
Also, you should not wear your team kit to the Werbeniuk (wearing some
other team's kit is fun, though), none of these rides is in the least
bit sanctioned by Escape Velocity, and the Werbeniuk in particular is
obviously such a terrible idea that it should not be attended by anyone.
If you need to reach me for the Shortest Day ride or NOT for the
Werbeniuk, my cel is 604 512 8863.
*Garneau Evolution does a crazy-ambitious "Longest Day" fundraising
ride every year at or near the Summer Solstice, a road ride picked out
to to be long enough to actually need most of the daylight available
in order to complete it. In response, I started a "Shortest Day" ride,
a lights-mandatory low-key cyclocross affair, which takes place at or
near the Winter Solstice, exploiting the available darkness and ending
at a place where we can eat and drink and lie.
Ryan Cousineau, rcou...@gmail.com, http://wiredcola.com
"Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and
striped toothpaste can't be all bad." -from "One, Two, Three"