Egan Ride
Bored with structured training? Increase your fitness with hill intervals! Welcome to Egan, a fun, social yet competitive group of eclectic hill climbers. We charge steep uphills and banter during recovery. Each week is a new route featuring challenging short climbs in the beautiful hills of Silicon Valley.
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Start: Tuesdays 6:00pm during daylight saving time at the Los Altos Chamber of Commerce, rolling at 6:05pm
Pace: Charge the hills, slow roll in between
Regroups: We regroup and recover after every climb; if you can climb Old La Honda in 25 minutes you should have no problem keeping up
Example route: https://www.strava.com/routes/2874856572963175602 (click here to see more)
The Egan Ride is subject to Alto Velo's Ride Rules and all participants must sign an annual waiver.
Note:During the Egan off season, The Climbing Ride is held monthly on Sundays, starting at 9am at the Los Altos Chamber of Commerce. Slightly longer than Egan, it features crazy steep hills in places like Los Gatos, Emerald Hills, and Hillsborough. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, "If you are going up hill, keep going".
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Representing Egan!
Chloé Nguyen at the 2024 Ironman 70.3 Santa Cruz Ironman
Chloé Nguyen at the 2024 Ironman 70.3 Santa Cruz Ironman
Warner Yuen at the Umbrail pass on the Italy-Switzerland border
Simon Parton at the finish line of 2024 Unbound Gravel
Akin Dirik riding in Mallorca (Cap de Formentor)
Egan 2023.18 - Top Performers
Rider of the day was Daniel Blake with PRs on all 9 segments and a Top 10 on the “Alpine hill repeats” segment.
Egan 2023.17 Top Performers on and off the bike!
Robin Betz was women’s rider of the day with PRs on 8/9 hills, while Gavin Hlady was the men’s rider of the day with PRs on all 9 segments.
Egan 2023.16 Top Performers
Sonia Martin was women’s rider of the day with PRs on 9/10 hills, while James Biddle was the men’s rider of the day with PRs on all 10 segments.
Unofficial Egan 2023.15 - Top Performers
Rider of the day was Colin Ovens with PRs on all 11 segments, a top 10, and 2nd place in the GC. The GC award this week goes to Matt Bierbaum (reports of results tampering are greatly exaggerated) while there were no women riders registered.
Egan 2023.10 Top Performers
Rider of the day was Ari Pascarella again on her 2nd time joining the ride with PRs on all 8 segments and an XOM on Canyon Drive. Ari you are officially nominated as the Egan Sandbagger of the year! GC winners are awarded to Kelly Brennan and Ian Twamley.
Egan 2023.09 Top Performers
Rider of the day was Ari Pascarella, with PRs on all 11 segments and a QOM on “Deerfield Drive up”! Ari also took the women’s GC while Eugene Chan took the men’s GC.
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