White Plains Tuesday/Thursday Night Training Rides Resume
The Tuesday and Thursday night training rides start again this month since Daylight Savings Time is in effect. If you work in Westchester, these rides are a great way to improve your fitness. We even get some riders who work in the city that join us occasionally.
The mileage varies from 20 to 56 miles depending on the daylight, but the ride is always back by dark (assuming no mechanical issues). Even so, you should always have a taillight and we recommend a front blinker aswell.
Both rides are great for training. Tuesday is generally the harder ride, but it’s determined by who shows up.Thursday is a tempo ride—no breakaways and we relax after climbs, and you may even get a push up hill, but it still re-quires a lot of effort to keep up. If you want an easy ride, try Monday nights, but if you want to move up from regularGimbels, then the Tuesday / Thursday rides are the rides for you. The route is the same as Gimbels Long, but we do Whippoorwill instead of Rt. 120 due to traffic. The longer rides in mid summer also loops around Bedford like Gimbels does on rare occasion. The Thursday ride is the one to come on if you can do Gimbels Regular, but the Long ride is a bit of a stretch. Tuesday is good for anyone who does Gimbels Long but gets dropped or who wants to get better. Comeout every week; trust me, you will get stronger.
We leave the Waller Ave parking lot (between Post Rd. and Maple Ave.) in White Plains at 6pm sharp. If you are running late, try parking at the Stop and Shop on Rt. 22 in North White Plains and meet us on the road. If you park at the Waller Ave. lot, you must feed the meters, as they are 24 hours, or find free parking further south on Waller Ave.
