Getting excited about 2023!!!



 Getting excited about 2023!!!


Doing some planning for the upcoming year and I am really getting excited.  Climbing and distance are on my mind for 2023.  My cycling season is shaping up to a big October, that could see me do as many as three rides in consecutive weeks.  I have to talk to my cycle peeps about that.  


On October 1, 2023 I am going to climb Mount Diablo.  11.2 miles and 3200 feet of climbing.  Dios Mio, I really must be insane in the brain.  Why would I want to do that?  I don’t but I really do and so I am going to. Then on October 14, 2023 I intend to ride my first century, the 3F’s, in Sacramento:  Fast, Flat, and Fun.  It is really flat too.  I think it is like 280 feet of climbing.  So we are going from short and steep to long and flat.   I am really excited, 2023 is going to be an awesome year. Bike and Beers falls between the two rides and I would love to do that again but it might be a little too much for my legs, however, I have a brain trust to help me figure that.  


So,  I am also planning out some other rides.  Rachel is going to come to California and join me for some rides.  So I am putting together a list of potential rides and it looks like it is going to be a big year riding.  


The potential ride list:


5/13/2023:


Tour delle Vigne


https://www.tourdellevigne.com/courses



5/14/2023:


30 miles in Watsonville:


https://www.cyclistsforculturalexchange.org/sff



6/10/2023:


Gold Country Rides 


https://www.rotarygoldcountrychallenge.com/register.html

 

09/02/2023:


Tour de Fuzz


https://www.tourdefuzz.org



10/01/2023:


Mt. Diablo Challenge


https://strambecco.com/event/mt-diablo-challenge/



10/07/2023:


Bike the Bridges


https://p2p.onecause.com/bikethebridges



10/14/2023:


3F’s:


http://www.3fcentury.com




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