OCA 🍁 Fall Foliage Ride 🍁 - Recap
Saturday, November 5, 2022 - Recap
The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail in full color
48 miles (or less, or more…)
Saturday, November 5, 2022
This past weekend 5 of us rode the Bronx River Trail and about half the trees were still green, so I'm hoping there will still be decent fall color on the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail this weekend.
We'll start in Chappaqua just after the the train gets in at 10:08. You can catch that train from 125th at 9:19, or at Grand Central about 10 minutes earlier. The ride consists of riding up to the Croton Reservoir and then down the full length of the OCA trail, back to the City. This is the route - it's about 48 miles (1625 feet of climbing) back to Harlem…
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38749637?privacy_code=7UTy5dVwpmthOtAz
There are several options for those of you drive. The one that's probably best for most of you is to head back to Chappaqua via the the South County (Putnam Trail) when you get to Yonkers (56 miles, 1960 feet of climbing total). This is what that would look like…
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/41343519?privacy_code=IPmmX9JIlIHhWv6u
If you ride back to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and get the Putnam Trail at that point it adds about 7 miles (so a full metric century).
There are MetroNorth stops every couple miles along the route if you need to end early.
38+ mm tires are suggested for most riders. However strong riders can do it on 28mm tires.
This ride is co-listed with GravelNY, so there will be some non-LGBT folks along on the ride. Before RSVP'ing, please review and agree to the GrNY Ride Guidelines – http://grny.org/guidelines
Ride Details
| Team | Gravel / Multi-Surface |
| Distance | 48 miles (or less, or more…) |
| Start Location | Sent to registered members |
| Date | Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
| Meet Time | Sent to registered members |
| Start Time | Sent to registered members |
| Level | B - Steady Eddy |
| Speed | ~15 mph by NYCC standards (if you average 12+ mph on Strava you’ll be fine) |
| Ride Organizer | Jay H. |
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RIDE LEVEL KEY
A - Speed Freak - Fast paceline ride
B - Steady Eddy - Moderately paced ride
C - Easy Rider - Gentle paced ride
The 'Ride Speed' indicates the target cruising speed on flat roads.
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