Understated Club ride descriptions

[miamibiker]

Local LBS posts "Weekday Recovery Ride"----should have guessed when I was the only woman --hint, hint!!

Turned out to be a 26-28mph. Not sure who can "recover" at that pace??
I now refer to it as the "Roid Recovery Ride"

[OakLeaf]

Holy cr@p... what's the pace of their tempo rides?

[Veronica]

Turned out to be a 26-28mph. Not sure who can "recover" at that pace??
I now refer to it as the "Roid Recovery Ride"

How far do they ride that fast? That's like pro peleton pace.

Veronica

[marni]

Local LBS posts "Weekday Recovery Ride"----should have guessed when I was the only woman --hint, hint!!

Turned out to be a 26-28mph. Not sure who can "recover" at that pace??
I now refer to it as the "Roid Recovery Ride"

roid recovery or delusions of adequacy, (ducking and running)

[azfiddle]

I find it very helpful to preview the ride using ridewithgps, if I the route is available beforehand. Seeing the elevation profile in advance gives me a much better sense of what to expect.

Two of the clubs that post a ride schedule use rating systems: flat, minor hills, moderate hills, steep hills, long climbs or very steep for one, and FF-Fairly Flat, LH=Little Hills, MH=Medium Hills, BH=Big Hills for the other.

[OakLeaf]

The biggest club around here uses Terrain Degree of Difficulty (TDD). But it's one of those things that they've been using forever, and if anyone else uses it - or if they say how it's calculated - I haven't been able to find it.

I should just ask.