Hello to our Main list subscribers, as well as GravelQuest and Segment Challenge members!

We've got lots coming up, and here's your update for what's new.

Up first is the Scrabblethon this Sunday!

It's our fun offroad event where you ride laps for an hour, collecting a Scrabble tile each lap, and the winner is....whoever spells the best word!

The day looks great, and whether riding for fun, possibly with friends (or make some new ones!), or if you've got racing coming up, this is a perfect chance to blow out the legs!

Details and sign-up are live on the site, please sign up before Saturday at 6pm: https://abouttheride.ca/scrabblethon/

(And it won't be very muddy, there's one very short spot where a bit collects...the weather is looking fantastic!🌞)

Volunteers are welcome, we need a couple people to hand out tiles, as well as having someone wander the course and snapping photos would be cool as well! Hit reply if you'd like to help out!

Also, it's the 4th year of the Victoria Segment Challenge, and our Spring series kicks off on March 9th!

Once again we'll feature two road segments every week, with A, B & C categories, as well as Open and Female, similar to the GravelQuest it's a fun way to check out new roads and routes, as well as get in a couple efforts every week! Not to mention win some cool swag thanks to all our awesome event supporters.

Sign-up is live on the site as well: https://abouttheride.ca/victoria-segment-challenge/

As well, did you know we list pretty much ALL the racing? Road, gravel, MTB, cyclocross - you can find all the Victoria, Island and even some Lower Mainland events under the Victoria Cycling section of our site. 

Click around on the site to check these out, and block off your calendars!

Besides the occasional email newsletter, this also often gets posted to our social media, so be sure to check us out there as well!

COMING UP!

We've got a busy year, So You Think You Can Climb, our climb-only series, will return in May, plus more of our regular series!

Additionally About The Ride is kinda growing up, and we're in the process of registering as a non-profit and CyclingBC club/team, so that we can more easily take on bigger events.

There's a need for more organized road racing, and the Royal Bay Crit I've been organizing has been quite popular with those who attended, and we've got a few more loops in mind, and are investigating a weekday (Wed night) crit series that'll run through all of July, right here in town.

In order to facilitate this, we'll be forming a non-profit, and create a CyclingBC team/club as well.

In addition to the road events in the summer, we're also looking into organizing a cyclocross race in the fall, and have a location in mind for that, so we may have a new addition to Cross on the Rock!

Aaaand we're probably going to make up some snazzy new ATR cycling kit, and that'll be available for all.

I'll send out updates as things progress, but if anyone's keen on being a part of our organizing team, hit reply and let me know how you'd like to be involved!

Exciting times for ATR!!

That's it for now, hopefully see you Sunday, and looking forward to getting back to the segment action in March!!!

Safe and speedy riding all! 🚲

- Dave

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