Weekly Wednesday Ride | Weigent Park

Plan on a W night ride at 5:30 PM, starting from near Weigent Park, every Wednesday night for the rest of the summer. Details will be posted in the group discussion area, including whether the ride will be cancelled due to weather.

Current expectation is that we will cross the La Crescent bike bridge and pick up riders at the west end of the bridge. At least for a while, we’ll continue to check behind the Kwik Trip. However, a suggestion was made last week to relocate that spot to the bike bridge, where there is a parking lot for anyone driving to meet us.

As I stated with the first posts in this group for 2025, it seems this should be (ie, continue to be) a “no drop” group with a goal of a pace no faster than the 14-16 mph range – it’s far from a racing pace, but it’s also not a ride home from the ice cream shop. If you’re not a regular rider of this group and would like to try it out, but you’re concerned about keeping up, please talk to me or someone else who seems acquainted with the procedure at the start. At the very least, we will make sure you don’t end up dropped and riding alone.

I’ve essentially volunteered to try to coordinate this because I enjoy and value these rides, but if anyone ever wants to propose or post a different route, that should also be fine, as long as we coordinate things.

It should always be possible to post additional cycling-related items relevant to this group, such as requests for people to join a ride at a different time or location, for example.
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f the last couple of years are indicators, we may extend a couple of more weeks past the noted end date of 10 Sep, but rides after that are likely to start earlier as the sunsets creep earlier at an accelerating pace.