Hi Grannydea, and welcome! -

I don't know much about the Cinderella, this will be my first one, but it's a 100 km/62-ish mile ride in the SF Bay Area, centered around Dublin/Pleaston and thereabouts in the East Bay.

I am told it's an "easy" 100K (tho at this point anything but all downhill over that kind of distance hardly qualifies as easy for moi but I'm hoping that will change in a couple of months)


Here is the info page as it is right now, more info should be coming soon. It's put on by the Valley Spokesmen club of Dublin, and this year it will be on Saturday March 27.
http://www.valleyspokesmen.org/cinder.html

And here are a couple of websites with photos of past Cinderellas, it looks like a lot of fun.

http://homepage.mac.com/michaelmalon...lla/page2.html

http://homepage.mac.com/aforkosh/Cinderella2002/

The Cinderella sounds especially cool because its women only, and it looks like a fun ride to be on.

There are also a lot of other organized rides in Northern California during the month of April, I hope to make it to at least a couple of these:

Tierra Bella near San Jose on Saturday April 3 (60K/100K/hilly 100 miles/hilly 200K):
http://www.actc.org/tb/index.html

Steinbeck Watershed Century in Carmel Valley on Saturday April 10 (20 mi/40mi/100K/100 mi):
http://www.carmelriverwatershed.org/bike_ride04.html

Primavera near Fremont-Union City on Sunday April 18 (25 mile/70K/100K/100 mile):
http://www.fremontfreewheelers.org/primavera.html

Top Hat Classic (MS fundraiser) near Pleasanton on Saturday April 24 (10 mi / 25 mi/ 50 mi/ 75 mi):
http://www.msconnection.org/events/tophat/Default.htm

Wildflower Century near Chico on Sunday April 25 (30 mi/ 60 mi /65 mi / 100 mi):
http://www.chicovelo.org/wildflowernew.html


whee!

- Jo.