Hi Girls.
This Saturday (June 13) Gears Girls will be offering a couple different ride options. You can choose to ride distances of 90km, 70km, or 40km.
If you would like to ride the full 90km, meet at Gears for the regular 8:15am departure – from Gears, we’ll head to Oakville to meet the ladies riding the 40km and 70km routes.
If you would like to ride the 70km or 40km routes, please meet at the Oakville Whole Foods parking lot (on the east side of the lot, by Starbucks) for 8:45am. The women leaving from Gears will ride to Whole Foods to meet the rest of the group between 8:45 and 9am. (Whole Foods is located at 301 Cornwall Road, Oakville, just off the QEW at the Trafalgar exit).
From Whole Foods, we’ll head west to Burlington and then on to North Shore Boulevard to Plains Road just east of Hamilton. For those of you that haven’t ridden along North Shore Boulevard, it’s a pretty ride along a nice, quiet stretch of road – with some nice rollers and hills that you can practice your gearing and hill climbing techniques on. If you ride to Plains road from Whole Foods, the total distance will be approximately 70km.
For those of you that would like a shorter more leisurely ride, you can head back to Whole Foods at Brant Street (there’s a nice Second Cup on the corner – which has a great patio and view of the water that you might want to stop at). This distance will be approximately 40km.
We're hoping that a number of you give the 70km or 90km routes a try. The ride for the most part is quiet flat – it’s not until you get to North shore that it starts to get hilly. And that section isn’t overly long. It’ll be a nice ride and for those of you that haven’t done any longer rides, this will give you a sense of what the distance is like.
Please email us at gearsgirls@hotmail.com to let us know if you will be meeting us at Gears or Whole Foods.
See you all Saturday!
