No-Nifty a Novartis variant of the Nifty Ten Fifty bike ride

Details

What

• It's just a short bike ride: 10^* climbs in the East Bay hills. Happens to cover 10,000 feet in 50 miles. *(of the nastiest)
  More info here.
• It's all laid out in this 5 minute video. Check it out!
• NTF main site. Midway down has links to various Strava files.
• The Route Profile.
• Climb summaries:
  • NTF # 1 - Moeser; 0.9 mi, 13.4% avg grade, 645 ft gain, cat 3
  • NTF # 2 - Terrace to Summit Reservoir; 2.4 mi, 5.6% avg grade, 712 ft gain, cat 4
  • NTF # 3 - Marin; 0.8 mi, 16.2% avg grade, 662 ft gain, cat 3
  • NTF # 4 - El Toyonal/Lomas Contadas; 1.5 mi/0.5 mi, 8.4%/13.1% avg grade, 681 ft gain/323 ft gain, cat 3/cat 4
  • NTF # 5 - Centennial; 2.3 mi, 7.7% avg grade, 926 ft gain, cat 3
  • NTF # 6 - Cannon/South Park; 4 mi, 5% avg grade, 1061 ft gain, cat 2
  • NTF # 7 - Snake/Elverton; 1.6 mi/0.2 mi, 7%/12.6% avg grade, 606 ft gain/118 ft gain, cat 3
  • NFT # 8 - Broadway Terrace; 1.5 mi, 8.2% avg grade, 656 ft gain, cat 3
  • NFT # 9 - Hiller/Norfolk; 1.4 mi, 7.7% avg grade, 577 ft gain, cat 3
  • NFT #10 - Claremont/Grizzly Peak/Vollmer Peak; 4 mi, 7.3% avg grade, 1538 ft gain, cat 2
• Ride description.
• Helpful FAQ
• Nice blog from this year — from and a numbers geek.

When

October or November 2013. We need a consensus from the signup sheet.

Cost

Only pain.

Why

'Cause some knucklehead in our group said we should. The real event is in April, and we couldn't wait that long.

Who

Add your name to the knucklehead list so we'll know you're just as crazy! Link provided to signup spreadsheet in separate email (or ask me).

Logistics

To be ironed out. The thinking is to meet at the start in El Cerrito (Cerrito Vista Park, base of Moeser) at 8am. Or possibly meet at the Novartis parking lot and ride over to Moeser. It will take about 5 or 6 hours total for the ride. We will organize a very informal snack stop somewhere (Brazilian Room in Tilden?), otherwise it's fully self-supported. We may then organize a BBQ at a park at the end, or maybe head back to shower at Novartis and then hit up The Hot Italian or somewhere equally fun to grub and trade stories. This section will be refined over the next few weeks.