PCL Criterium Practice - Tuesday nights 6 PM

PCL Criterium Practice starting next Tuesday June 2nd 6 PM at the Bridges which is located off of South West 27th street (just South of Denton road)…Look for the big Covered Bridge.

The Good Life Grave Adventure - Update

The emails are coming in with folks wanting to sign up for the GLGA. Thanks to those who have sent emails thus far expressing interest in the Adventure. Check out the updated roster to the right.

We're doing a lot of reconing of the gravel and dirt roads surrounding Lincoln and are finding a lot of potential routes. The gravel and dirt roads around Lincoln are endless. Northern Lancaster County has a lot of large rollers and is often referred to as The Bohemian Alps due to the large Czech population in the area. The PCL crew is going to include several miles of those rollers during the GLGA. Sure, it's a lot of climbing, but you know what they say, what goes up...

The Good Life Gravel Adventure Roster

The Good Life Gravel Adventure roster will be posted on the right side of the blog. If you are interested in riding the GLGA, please send me an email with your name, age, hometown and category (Open or SS/Fixed). My email address is in my profile.

Act fast, we're only allowing 500 participants.

The Good Life Gravel Adventure

The Good Life Gravel Adventure has been moved to Saturday August 29, 2009. Please mark your calendars accordingly. The GLGA has been moved to accommodate the event promoters (The Ponca Ride is the weekend before the previously set date of June 27th).

Speaking of The Ponca Ride, all are welcome to join the Lincoln crew for a no drop ride up to Ponca State Park on Friday June 19th. We'll take off early on Friday (4 AM) and ride the 155 miles up to Ponca State Park and camp Friday and Saturday. The Psycowpath XC race is Saturday June 20th at Ponca State Park. On Sunday June 21st, the brave will ride back to Lincoln.

The GLGA will be approximately 135 miles of challenging gravel and dirt roads (with minimal tarmac) surrounding the great city of Lincoln, Nebraska. Small town convenience stores will serve as checkpoints and aid stations. Start and finish will be in Lincoln, Nebraska!

Riders will be required to purchase Nebraska Powerball Lottery tickets as proof of reaching a checkpoint. All Nebraska Powerball tickets will be collected and verified at the finish line. The tickets will then be pooled and any winnings split amongst the race participants.

All riders are own their own after leaving the start/finish area. This is a self-supported event. You are responsible for you. Please train accordingly and bring all the necessary gear and equipment. Fortunately, most checkpoints will be less than 30 to 40 miles apart. The checkpoints (small town convenience stores) will have ample refreshments for thirsty and hungry riders. Bring some cash along!

This is a FREE event (actually you will need to spend about 4 bucks on Nebraska Lottery tickets). There will be prizes and medals, but most importantly, there will be Gravel Glory.

Please shoot me an email if you are interested in coming to the Adventure. Please use The Good Life Gravel Adventure as the subject line and include your name, age, hometown and category (Open or Single Speed/Fixed). Email me at: coreycycle@hotmail.com

More details to follow soon!

PCL Tour of Dirt Roads - Recap

We had a beautiful day for the Tour of Dirt Roads. Rain on Thursday created ideal dirt road conditions for the ride. No dust or mud, just sweet, sweet dirt.

The group rolled out of D Street around 9:20. The official headcount was 29. Usual suspects and a few faces we haven't seen in a while. Always great to see new faces.

Took awhile to get of out of town due to numerous pee breaks and one flat. Eventually the group found the first section of dirt just south of Saltillo road. I wasn't there, but I heard the pace picked up mightly a few times.

Road closed ahead.

Oh, that won't stop the PCL train.

Dirt roads rule!

Spilker Ales rules! Thanks for the Hopluia, Sam.

The crew rode most of the dirt roads on the course that was mapped out. A few sections were skipped for sake of saving time and getting to Cortland at a decent hour. The route was a bit longer than we had originally planned. Oops. Never trust my mileage estimates.

A few folks (Dave, Jim and Sam) rolled back in around 4:30ish to pick out a prize from the PCL prize vault. Not many made it back to D Street after the event. I'm sure most folks were over extended on time.

We've got plenty of PCL Tour of Dirt Roads (Second Edition) magnets courtesy of Dan Moore, Sam and Showen. Thanks again fellas! There are a few stickers left as well. Stop on by D Street to pick some up if you didn't get one today.

There are also some PCL Tour of Dirt Roads posters and maps available for FREE courtesy of Craig. Thanks dude!

PCL cotton T-shirts are available for 10 bucks. We've got medium and large sizes. Stop on by if you want one. Shot me an email and I'll be sure to be around the house.

The next Tour of Dirt Roads will take place sometime next year. We'll plan on hitting all the dirt roads on the route except the ones near Kramer for the next ToDR. That'll keep the route a little closer to 60 miles.

Thanks again to all that made the ToDR possible. Also thanks to all those who came by for the ride. Another great grassroots bicycle event based right here in Lincoln.

Dirt roads are dry!

ToDR UPDATE

The PCL Tour of Dirt Roads is on for tomorrow morning. The dirt roads are dry. In fact, the recent rain should keep the dust down.

See you tomorrow morning.

PCL Tour of Dirt Roads!

The second annual PCL Tour of Dirt Roads is almost upon us! Saturday April 11th at 9 AM the PCL Tour of Dirt Roads will begin from D Street (15th and D Street) in Lincoln and head southwest of town to find as many dirt roads as possible. We'll head out the Jamaica Trail and hit some gravel on our way out of town before hitting the beautiful dirt. The route has been mapped out and will hit:

• approximately 22 dirt roads!
  
• 7 rural cemeteries along the route
  
• 8 rural lakes
• Cortland, Nebraska
  

The ride will be approximately 50 to 70 miles. This is a no drop ride, but please come prepared and know your way back to town if you fall too far off the back (get dropped! HA!) or get lost. For those of you who want to go a little faster there will be a fast group which will ride the course at a brisker pace. If you wanna get a good workout on Saturday, join the fast group which will be lead by highly caffeinated masochistic PCL crew members.

The current plan is to stop into Cortland for lunch around noon or 1 PM and hit Leanne's Restaurant if it's open for business (if not, we'll hit the convenience store). Leanne's is currently undergoing remodeling, but will open if we get enough folks to show up for the event. They'll have cold beer on tap and plenty of bar food to satisfy your hunger.

We'll wrap up the ride after lunch with a few more dirt roads before heading back to Lincoln for a white elephant prize drawing. Remember to bring a white elephant prize for the PCL Prize Vault to drop off before we leave on the ride. The white elephant prize can be anything and doesn't need to be bike related. Previous prizes include: 3 bars of Caress soap, various calibers of firearm bore snakes, a bottle of Crown Royale, a Q-tip CD, books, and the infamous Larry the Cable Guy DVD. Just please keep the white elephant prize rated PG.

If the dirt roads are wet, we will ride gravel. One of the PCL crew members will recon the dirt tomorrow (Friday). Stay tuned for updates.