Session Sundays were a group that met at the top of Second Breakfast, and sessioned the jumpline. This event was originally to get some friends together to get comfortable with avoiding "accidental air," but with Facebook promotion, turned into a weekly tradition, with close to 30 riders at its height.
The ride was marketed as an informal opportunity to "play on bikes like kids, in a chill, encouraging environment." I phased out Session Sundays when Hilltop's bike park opened, and their "Sunday Sessionz" program helped fill the community need.
The ride was marketed as an informal opportunity to "play on bikes like kids, in a chill, encouraging environment." I phased out Session Sundays when Hilltop's bike park opened, and their "Sunday Sessionz" program helped fill the community need.
The Night Light ride series was a weekly ride, starting in late fall and running all through winter. The idea behind the Night Lights rides were to provide a low-stress, fun environment where riders could get comfortable with night riding and explore trails together. The ride started with a core group of 5-10 riders, but quickly grew, and required me recruiting several other group leaders at varying levels of speed and experience.
When I was training for the Soggy Bottom, Janice Tower (my coach at the time) and I had this crazy idea to start a women's camp, aimed at getting more women comfortable with solo backcountry. I coordinated weekly training rides, Zoom classes and weekend Kenai rides for 27 women with the focus of increasing Soggy Bottom women participation. That year, we raised this historic average from 10% to 32%, and had a whole lot of fun along the way!
Taking pictures of group rides was a big way to create stoke for future rides. I always finish a group ride with a group chat so riders can share pictures and/or connect for future rides as an effort to build community.
My latest series of rides was the "Slow Jam" series. I started this group as I recovered from an injury, and was working on getting a base-level of fitness back. The rain-or-shine rides were well-attended, and grew to include "slow jammers" and "rock-n-rollas" (faster riders lead by friends I recruited to lead.) An additional community tool was a group chat called "Spontaneous Jams," where riders could opt in and see if anyone else was up to ride spontaneously, between group rides.
Photos from Trek events, including the annual Bike Art Show and opening party.
