By Scott Bartlebaugh and Jamuel Starkey
In the era of Covid we can’t do our normal Gala rides but we’re reaching out to provide some incentive to get out and ride and give you some possible routes to explore. To that end we bring you A Separately Together Gala Ride. They way it works is we’ll provide three curated rides with increasing difficulty similar to our regular Gala rides (A, B, and C hardest to easiest).
The inaugural December virtual gala ride is at Crockett Hills Regional Park. Crockett Hills offers great views, single track, low technicality, and a few steeper but shorter climbs. Those climbs get easier the more you do them. Really, they do.
The best way to participate in this month’s ride is head over to the BTCEB Strava Club. If you are not yet a member of our Strava club, please give us a day or so to approve you. Membership in the BTCEB Strava Club is open to the public.
Over on Strava we are testing out some functionality to provide for ride tracking and possible promotional giveaways on future virtual gala rides. To help us get prepped for possible giveaways on future virtual gala rides we ask that if you haven’t already, please allow us to track your progress on your upcoming rides:
For your rides to appear in our club leaderboards on the BTCEB website you will need to provide authorization (aka opt-in) for the BTCEB Strava Club to collect data on your rides. By joining the BTCEB Strava club any other members of the Strava club will be able to see your logged activities. By opting-in to BTCEB collecting your rides activities we will be able to also publish them individually or in aggregate on our website or in social media posts. BTCEB will not use your ride activity days for any other purpose.
Even if you don’t want to participate in any of the social media aspects of the Virtual Gala Ride we encourage you to get out and ride any!
More details can be found on the BTCEB website.
