We've got a really big spring/summer/fall weeknight group ride. The A/B splits pretty early on. It's a bit of a cluster of paceline on the way out and people going off for a few attempts at segments.
The route's a total mixed bag. Starts out with some miles of steady rolling terrain, then gets broken in town by some hills, stops, and neighborhood turns after about 1/3 of the way. A crossing of town 1/2 way through the ride paired with not the nicest pavement or route means the ride feels like it is almost over by 1/2 way.
I think people get antsy wanting to do things sometimes and push pace at dumb times through neighborhoods.
Anyone got any ideas for "games" for the group other than the normal hill sprint and flat sprint stuff?
I thought about seeing if on the long out of town part if the groups wanted to split into lead/chase with a 30 second gap. Or, have a safe loop on the ride for a 10 minute crit. Or, if the A group is smaller one night.....let the group ITT a few mile segment as part of the ride.
I'd like to propose something fun. Idea being that it would give each A rider a challenge to look forward to without getting antsy during the ride and pushing pace through parts of town that aren't wise to do so.
Whatcha got?
The route's a total mixed bag. Starts out with some miles of steady rolling terrain, then gets broken in town by some hills, stops, and neighborhood turns after about 1/3 of the way. A crossing of town 1/2 way through the ride paired with not the nicest pavement or route means the ride feels like it is almost over by 1/2 way.
I think people get antsy wanting to do things sometimes and push pace at dumb times through neighborhoods.
Anyone got any ideas for "games" for the group other than the normal hill sprint and flat sprint stuff?
I thought about seeing if on the long out of town part if the groups wanted to split into lead/chase with a 30 second gap. Or, have a safe loop on the ride for a 10 minute crit. Or, if the A group is smaller one night.....let the group ITT a few mile segment as part of the ride.
I'd like to propose something fun. Idea being that it would give each A rider a challenge to look forward to without getting antsy during the ride and pushing pace through parts of town that aren't wise to do so.
Whatcha got?