Get Out and Ride: Beat Madison Week!

Beat Madison Week!

This week, instead of featured events, I’ve decided to take a moment and call all of you out to “Get Out and Ride/Log” and help us overtake Madison, WI in the National Bike Challenge. We’ve closed the gap over the past few weeks, overtaking them for a day, but now it’s time to shift it into a higher gear and leave them in the dust! Check out the charts and data below showing just how close we are to passing them up for good.

As you can see, we made up a lot of ground last month and early this month, and passed them up for a brief moment in time last week (I believe on July 11 to be exact). We were gaining on them rapidly, up until that point, and then I think two things happened. One thing, we kind relaxed a bit and slowed our cadence. And two, Madison noticed we had bridged the gap and kicked it back into gear. The thing is, we’ve been flip flopping on points per day since then, as you can see in the next chart.

As you can see, after we passed them up on the eleventh, they made a big push to take back the lead and they’ve since held it by roughly 4,000 points. But here’s the kicker folks, we’re leading the challenge in total miles logged! As of this morning, the mileage totals looked like this:

Lincoln, NE: 405,497.6 miles

Madison, WI: 389,767.3 miles

The biggest takeaway from this being that we need more people logging and getting those easy 21 points per day, since our regular loggers are already putting up impressive mileage numbers! So, if you’re one of those that doesn’t log, or you have friends that ride and don’t log, we need you, now more than ever, to start logging those miles and help Lincoln get into first place and win!

This Week’s Calendar:

Monday (July 18)

• Chit Chat Ride – Joyride Bicycles
  • Time: 6pm (meet at 5:45pm)
  • Start: Joyride Bicycles
  • Route: Varies (usually south)
• Friendly Road Ride – Bike Rack (Lincoln)
  • Time: 6pm
  • Start: Bike Rack (Lincoln)
  • Route: Varies (1.5-2 hour)

Tuesday (July 19)

• Tuesday Night Nacho Ride
  • Time: 5pm – ??
  • Start: Trailhead at 84th and Mopac
  • Route: Eagle and back
• Hit the Trail – Joyride Bicycles
  • Time: 6pm
  • Start: Joyride Bicycles
  • Route: Varies

Wednesday (July 20)

• Wednesday Night Ride
  • Time: Meet at 5:30pm, Roll out by 5:35pm
  • Start: Varies
  • Route: Varies
• Midweek MTB – Joyride Bicycles
  • Time: Time varies, check Joyride FB Page or Angry Cow Adventures
  • Start: Varies
  • Route: Varies
• Family / New Rider Trail Ride – Bike Rack (Lincoln)
  • Time: 6pm
  • Start: Bike Rack (Lincoln)
  • Route: Varies (trails around town)
• Chit Chat Ride 2 – Joyride Bicycles
  • Time: 5:45pm (meet at 5:30pm)
  • Start: Joyride Bicycles
  • Route: Varies (usually south)
• Girls Ride Out – Joyride Bicycles
  • Time: 6pm
  • Start: Joyride Bicycles
  • Route: Varies

Thursday (July 21)

• Tour de Brew LNK
  • Time: 4:30pm – 10:30pm
  • Start: Moran’s Liquor Works
  • Info: Casual ride with friends enjoying brew’s along the way. $5 donation. Raffle.
  • Route: Moran’s -> Cycle Works -> Food -> Empyrean Warehouse
• Food Truck Joy Ride – Joyride Bicycles
  • Time: 6pm – ??
  • Start: Joyride Bicycles
  • Route: Roca Tavern and back
• Thursday Night No Drop Road Ride (ThNNDRR) – Cycle Works
  • Time: 5:30pm – ??
  • Start: Cycle Works
  • Route: Varies
• Thursday Nite Gravel
  • Time: 6pm
  • Start: Jamaica North Trailhead at Park Blvd & Speedway Circle
  • Route: varies, 35-45 miles, 15mph average  (akin to 19-20 mph on pavement)

Friday (July 22)

• No rides scheduled, plan something yourself!

Saturday (July 23)

• Saturday Morning Gravel
  • Time:  7am
  • Start: Jamaica North Trailhead at Park Blvd & Speedway Circle
  • Route: varies, 35-45 miles, 15mph average  (akin to 19-20 mph on pavement)
• On the Road – Joyride Bicycles
  • Time: 8am
  • Start: Joyride Bicycles
  • Route: Varies
• Gretna Tour de Brisket Ride – GPBC (Gretna, NE)
  • Time: 8:30am
  • Start: Scooters parking lot (this is just south of the Sonic) on the south edge of Gretna.
  • Info: 10mph pace. Potential food stop at We’ll Smoke You BBQ.
  • Route: Hwy. 370 east to Hwy. 50, south to Hwy. 31 just north of Louisville then follow Hwy. 31 west/north back to Gretna.
• Loma Tavern Ride – Monkey Wrench Cycles
  • Time: Get to Loma between 9am-11am, tavern open 9am-1pm
  • Location: Loma Tavern, Loma, NE
  • Info: Unorganized ride to Loma and back, multiple route options or make your own. More details on the MWC website.
• Saturday Morning No Drop Fat Bike Ride (SMNDFBR) – Cycle Works
  • Time: 9:30am
  • Start: Cycle Works
  • Route: Varies

Sunday (July 24)

• Old Cheney Road Farmers’ Market
  • Time: 10am-2pm
  • Location: 5500 Old Cheney Rd
  • About: Ride to the Farmers’ Market and show your BicycLincoln Helmet Sticker to get entered into the monthly drawing.

Get Out and Ride (GOAR) is an every Sunday blog post that we’ll do our best to consolidate all the bicycling events, rides, and races coming up in the next week into one easy to digest list of details and links with a different featured event each week. The plan will be to update these posts with more events and details as the week goes on, and help get more people in the know about cycling related activities around Lincoln. Feel free to email us at [email protected] with events we may have missed, updates to events we have listed, or future events in the coming weeks.