The "First Saturday of the Month" ride is designed for people wanting to do 100 miles at a little bit faster pace ranging from 22mph into a head wind and 27mph with a tail wind.

We'll be leaving from Elite at 7:00am sharp and taking a different route so please do not expect to connect with the group at Blackpoint. The purpose of this ride is to put in 100 miles and not 80 and thank you in advanced for meeting at Elite.

We'll have a sag vehicle where you can put your personal food and drinks (clothing as well when the ride starts off cold). This car is available "exclusively" for all riders wearing an Elite jersey. If you are not wearing an Elite jersey and have a mechanical, unfortunately the sag vehicle will not stop for you. If you need an Elite jersey please come to Elite a little bit early (6:45am) to pick yours up for only $38.50.

During the ride we will be passing out BonkBreaker bars and Accelerade sports drink as well. After the ride we will have food and drinks at Elite for everyone.

"TIPS" When turning or after stoplights and if you're leading the pack, please remember there's a pack of people behind you that need to slow down for the turn so please exit the turns slowly and check to make sure everyone is together after the turn, then pick the pace back up to it's normal speed. Please do your best to stay directly behind the person in front of you. We ride in a "double pace line" and do have the occasional cross winds but we don't take the entire road on this ride. If there's a cross wind and you're one of the weaker riders, please ask to move out of the pack and ride on the side where the wind is not as direct. If you don't plan to pulling the pack, please remember to stat towards the back! Please, please, please, if you see a person dropping back from leading and you know you are not going to lead, let them in front of you so you don't disrupt the pack.

Going through the toll... We need to single out when riding through this toll and there's a small board on the right hand side that we all must ride over. If you don't go over this board you'll be considered a motor vehicle and the Elite sag always gets the bill so please ride over the board. Just after this toll there is a bridge where some people like to go a bit harder, this is fine but everyone needs to remember that the last person going through the toll could be 100-200 meters behind the first person you so everyone "STOPS" after the bridge to regroup and then we continue on.

At Key Largo, we like to limit this stop to 10 minutes max. There will be a 2 minute warning but please be considerate to your other cyclists who want to stay on schedule.

Thank you,
Elite Cycling