Category: Casa Grande Century

CG Century 2012 Markers

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Yet another year helping out with the Casa Grande Century ride – held January 8, 2012.  This ride is one of Phoenix Metro Bicycle Club’s biggest yearly events, and accordingly is one of its more important fund raisers.  I’ve decided that this was my final year working on the organizing committee, for a while at least.  Time for someone else to step up. Helping out with the ride is quite a bit of work, and yet, when I really think about it, such involvement (and anything similar, like serving as an officer) is one of the truest forms of philanthropy

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CasaCopa Century – Revision 1

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Jesse had mentioned to me that the roads around Maricopa might be good for a club ride someday, and so I designed this route as a possible alternative to the current Casa Grande Century.   After riding it today, the results are in, for better and worse.  The route needs some work, but this ride has some good potential. Jesse and I planned to ride it together, but Jesse’s lingering head cold flared up and in the end he decided to rest and repair.    Since I rode it solo, there isn’t a whole lot of story here, but I will document

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CG100 Pre-Ride 2010

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Practically at the last minute, Jesse and I decided to take a roll around the Casa Grande Century route.  Both of us volunteer for this ride, held each January, so here in November we decided to scout out the route, take notes for course marking and maps, and generally make a day of it. All of this is very early conditioning for our cross country ride next year.  Accordingly, we both brought along touring bikes. Before sunrise Tuesday morning I found Jesse waiting for me at the McDonalds at Chandler Heights Blvd. and Alma School Road in south Chandler.  With

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CG100 Pre-Ride 2009

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Way pre-ride: About midway through 2007, I overheard a club member say, “If every club member would volunteer for one ride a year, we’d have every base covered.” That made immediate perfect sense to me, and so a few weeks later I volunteered for the 2009 Casa Grande Century ride. Turns out that with a new CGC route that year, there were more than 80 turns! The focus was on course marking. Coupled with the fact that the club had only a few decent marking signs, I volunteered to make a whole set. This effort actually turned into a pretty

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