Category: Club Rides

VELO HILL CLIMB

If you're a British Cycling member, you will have seen that we're coming into hill climb season. To that end, this year the club is hosting a hill climb on Long Lane, Arkesden.

The race will take place at 8am Saturday 14th October.

We're opening the event out to anyone willing to take place, with up to 100 entries. If you want to take part you'll need to register on Rider HQ: 
https://www.riderhq.com/events/p/xazstqd0/f/walden-velo-hill-climb

SUNDAY RIDES

This week we're following SR01; we've only got a month left of the summer schedule so make the most of it! We'll be sending out some information about the winter schedule in a few weeks time - If you haven't already done so, now's the time to start prepping your bike for winter riding.

The Sunday schedule in the summer starts at 7:30am in the market square, try to arrive a few minutes early!

We run five groups in the summer:

Two hour "steady" (16 - 17mph average, no drops!): https://www.waldenvelo.com/sr1/ 

Two hour "inters" (18mph average): https://www.waldenvelo.com/sr1/ 

Two hour "tempo" (19+mph): https://www.waldenvelo.com/sr1/ 

Three hour steady (16 - 17mph average): https://ridewithgps.com/routes/43043056

If you're running late, skip the loop down to Thaxted.

Three hour tempo (19+mph): https://ridewithgps.com/routes/44533447 

If you're a little light on numbers, the first hour of each steady route and tempo route match!

MIDWEEK RIDE - WEDNESDAY MORNING

We offer midweek morning rides throughout the year, and these will cover around 35 miles in a two hour ride. After the ride there's opportunity to chat at Bicicletta over a drink. The route this week is MW12. https://www.waldenvelo.com/mid-week-rides/ 

MIDWEEK RIDE - FRIDAY MORNING

The route for Friday's ride will be MW6. https://www.waldenvelo.com/mid-week-rides/ 

We look forward to seeing you out on the road! 

SUNDAY RIDES

We're continuing with our regular Sunday schedule and it's looking like the forecast for Sunday is a bit more summery! This week we're following SR14. As we've had a few questions about it recently, the Sunday schedule in the summer starts at 7:30am in the market square, try to arrive a few minutes early!

We run five groups in the summer:

Two hour "steady" (16 - 17mph average, no drops!): https://www.waldenvelo.com/sr14  

Two hour "inters" (18mph average): https://www.waldenvelo.com/sr14 

Two hour "tempo" (19+mph): https://www.waldenvelo.com/sr14  

Three hour steady (17mph average): https://ridewithgps.com/routes/42867937 

Three hour tempo (19+mph): https://ridewithgps.com/routes/44099067 

CHAIN GANG -  TUESDAY EVENING

Meet at the Railway Arms on Tuesday evenings at 19:00. Bring lights for the ride home - sunset is drawing in quickly these days!

We are getting good numbers with two groups heading out for the last two weeks; a faster ride and a steadier group. If you are thinking of joining but worried that you won't be able to take the pace in the faster group then this second group offers an easier entry to these types of rides. Don't be shy, they're good fun and great training, and will help build your group riding skills.

For those who don't know, this is the chain gang segment route: https://www.strava.com/segments/34703156 

MIDWEEK RIDE - WEDNESDAY MORNING

We offer midweek morning rides throughout the year, and these will cover around 35 miles in a two hour ride. After the ride there's opportunity to chat at Bicicletta over a drink. The route this week is MW8. https://www.waldenvelo.com/mid-week-rides/ 

SOCIAL RIDES - WEDNESDAY EVENING

With longer, warmer, days we have the opportunity to get out on our bikes into the evening sunshine. The social rides meet in the market square at 6:45 and are great fun. There are both road based, and gravel based, options. If you haven't been yet, come and have a go!

Following on from Ed's schedule, it looks like this week is social route 6 (I'll get these on the website soon)

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36677927

MIDWEEK RIDE - FRIDAY MORNING

The route for Friday's ride will be MW7. https://www.waldenvelo.com/mid-week-rides/ 

We look forward to seeing you out on the road!