CCC Ride Leaders

As most of you know, the CCC board has been focusing this year on trying to enhance our group ride offerings and trying to get more people to come out for our club rides.  One of our best options for accomplishing these goals is to recruit more ride leaders so that we an can add more pace group options to our (really, your) existing rides and possibly add more rides.  

For example, Ken has a great Saturday morning ride.  His group usually rides a brisk B+/A- pace.  That is perfect for people who like that pace (including people like me who can’t quite keep up but like to try and don’t mind being dropped).  However, I suspect that if we had more ride leaders and could offer additional (both slower and faster) pace groups, we would get more riders.  After all, for most people, Saturday morning is an ideal time for a bike ride.

Also, if we had more ride leaders, we could potentially offer late afternoon rides during the week for people who are working.  When I rode with the Richmond, Virginia club we had late spring/summer/early fall after work rides during the week.  They were very well attended notwithstanding the frequent afternoon rain showers.  

In support of our efforts to recruit more ride leaders, the board came up with the attached Ride Leader Guidelines (also available on our website at https://cccyclists.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=105555&module_id=652167).  These should be helpful in recruiting new ride leaders as they will help someone who is considering volunteering to be a ride leader to understand the role of the CCC ride leaders.

I am sending the new guidelines to all of you, our existing ride leaders, for review and comment.  While the guidelines were approved by the board last night, we recognize that this document will need to be updated and refined over time.  So, if anyone has any suggestions, send them on and I’ll share them with the board at a future meeting.

In the meantime, if you can think of anyone who might want to become a ride leader, please let me know and I will reach out to them, or, you can simply send them the Ride Leader Guidelines and my contact info (as provided below).

Thank you for your continuing volunteer commitment.  Ride leaders are the lifeblood of CCC.