The Endurance Nation Tour of California Training Camp is BACK!!
Team,
We are firing up the Tour of California Training Camp for 2015!
This is one of the most epically cool, unique things you can do with your fitness. This is generally how the week works:
- We will meet in the starting city of the Tour of California on Saturday, May 10th, and begin riding on Sunday, May 11th.
- Each morning we leave from the hotel at about 8-8:30am, or about 3hrs before the pro peloton starts.
- We ride on the course of the Amgen Tour of California -- think course markings, intermediate sprint towns completely shut down for us, KOM's marked, and rabid cycling fans on the course cheering you on, and growing in number as the peleton gets closer and closer to us!
- At some point on the day, usually after 3-5hrs of riding, we'll pull the campers off the course and either watch the peleton go by, or begin our transfer to the start city of the next stage.
- Your bags will be waiting for you in your room and your bike will be given a thorough cleaning and once-over.
- Dinner, socialize, sleep.
- Wake up, eat, stumble out to your bike, clip in, ride, repeat.
7 days, about 23-28hrs and 400-500+ miles of cycling later, we'll toss you on a plane and send you back to the real world.
Most importantly, you'll share a special week of cycling with cool people who share your commitment to a fitness lifestyle. We have a ludicrous amount of fun during this camp...while at the same time contesting sprints, KOMs, and generally having a blast on our bikes.
Interested?
Complete details are here.
Questions?
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The IN List - closes at 20 campers!
Admin/Support, TBD:
UPDATE:
Pre Camp Webinar available for download here
Itinerary, written on 10/20/14 after Tour cities announced but without course details
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Press release here
Stage Map
Based on my knowledge of California and how the Tour works, this is my first draft of how the week will play out for the ToC Camp:
After using this as an exercise of walking myself through each day, we just need course details for the Sacramento and Pismo stages.
This is going to be an awesome camp and off the hook riding!
Nice! Added you to the IN list above
Let's hook up a Strauss vs Sarti vs Noyes vs Riley vs Faust vs Wyatt vs Lauren vs Dean thing. We can get the spouses working on Mrs Noyes, while Faust and Riley beat the crap out of each other to the entertainment of the kids and we drink beer in the corner. Will be epic
- Climbing. Might take me 9 days to do the rides. LOL I know it said "all levels" but I know most EN'rs are much better/faster so 7 days of "Independent Group Rides" might be less fun than I bargained for.
- I'm doing IMChoo this year so I had planned on doing that camp. Now I know you don't HAVE to ride the course, but not a bad idea right. I'm sure I can only swing one camp for $$ and SAU reasons, so given the choice, what Camp would you reco?
Thanks!
@Kim, over the years we've had a wide variety of EN athletes on this ride. For me, as the organizer, the important thing is that people be self-sufficient, responsible, cool folks, and you certainly fit the bill
. But if you could only do one, I suppose IMChat camp would be a better fit, from a learning and course-specific perspective.
@Jamie -- road bike isn't required but strongly recommended. You'll just enjoy the ride much, much more on a road bike. That said, I'm 100% sure I can hook you up with a high quality rental. I know a guy
While I havent done ToC, I've been doing something similar at the Colorado Pro Tour the past four years. The closed roads, the start and finish locales, all a pretty unique bike experience.
I'm giving this some serious consideration as well. Sounds like a lot of fun.
Hey Al,
Cool, saves me an email to personally invite you and Cheryl
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If she's willing to be a driver/admin/support person I'm sure we can work something out. Let me think about that get back to you.
Can't miss this, I'm in!
Rich, With St. George the week before, will you have room to take my bike back with you to CA?
So you'd race SG, give me your bike, I take it back to CA and it meets you at the start of the Tour? Yep, I can do that easy for you or anyone else who wants to do that.
See my couples / trainer partner discount and hit up Steph!
Yes! I plan to try and talk Steph into doing this too.
She is trying to tell me a week of riding is worth a week at the Disney hotel in Hawaii. I think she is way over market...
Steph, if you really want to try a bicoastal double like that, you could always show up Sunday evening ready to ride the next day's route. Until the race route is announced, its hard to know just what would be involved in that. But Logan-SFO with a one way car rental ought to do the trick: drive to Boston Saturday evening, fly out Sunday AM, arrive presumably SFO, having "gained" three hours (e.g. leaving at 9 AM with a 6 hour flight gets you into the Bay Area around noon), drive to wherever and drop off the car. Rich has your bike, Teri has your room ready, ride Monday morning.
Of course, you'll have had no sleep Friday night, and be sore from three hard runs, but - you're @ the Tour!
EN ToC doesn't observe child labor laws. Happy to put Lauren to work driving, wrenching bikes, etc.
Hard to say. Four reg'd in less than 24hrs. Early next week I plan to email all of the former campers and some other people directly.
Hey Steph,
Happy to work with you on this, would be great to have the Wonder Twins on the Tour
. If someone from the Denver area is traveling to IMSG, they could bring your bike and I could take it to LA with me after the race.
Actually, for you and Teri: you'd need to get your bikes from LA back to your homes, so I think you'd need to hand your bikes off to me in SG all boxed up? Just thought of that, lots of time to sort it out.
I'm born and raised in NorCal, and have, of course, been all around the state - but I saw areas of CA I've never seen before! With some amazing people! Just amazing!
Unfortunately, with my other gig these days, I'll probably be in Mallorca Spain again in 2015.
Given that, I'd totally suggest to anyone to do it! Two enthusiastic thumbs up for this!
Here's my hint though, don't ever let Rich lull you into a false sense of security when approaching a sprint point or KOM, he's sneaky and will suck your wheel until the very last minute to pip you at the line. He LIVES for it!
Great! I'll have my truck so no problems bringing back anything from SG
The correct term is "cagey."
Trying to get my buddy to join me on this but he said he has to check his prenup first ; )