San Ramon Team Ride

Back row:  Joel, Jim, David, Herb, Neil, Emilia, Tim, April
Front Row: Chris, Lori, Jan

The PG&E team, Power Pedalers, take their last group training ride before the weeklong trip, from SF to LA, leaving 5/31/15.

Gianni's BIG check

Back Row, Tim, Dave, Jim, Nicolas, Joel, Lori
Front Row, Larry, Jan, Emilia

Thank you Gianni's Italian Bistro in San Ramon for hosting our "Tips For Change" fundraising event in April.
Thank you also to all our friends, the dinner guests and donors, of the evening.

Tri Valley ALC training ride

Mariana unclipping for a rest after the first climb.

Mariana Sierra, our newest PG&E team member, had her first weekend of official AIDS/LifeCycle training rides. She rode Saturday for over 30 miles and then joined the Tri-Valley riders Sunday.  We rode through the Livermore Valley for 50 miles and had beautiful weather and interesting country art & lots of pasture animals, even some unusual ones.

Mariana, Jan & David,
sporting his Power of Blue Jersey.

country art

Team training ride, Livermore Valley

Jim, Dave, Jan, David H, Theresa, Lori, Nicolas, Joel

Authentic Covered Wagon (uncovered)

 Our first team training ride for 2015.  Most of our  Bay Area members were able to ride together for almost 60 miles, in beautiful spring weather.  We rode through the Livermore Valley in a big loop that took us through a little bit of vineyards, but mostly pasture lands.  Training is just part of the ride.  The harder part is the fundraising.  Please consider donating to help us fight HIV/AIDS.

Rick couldn't join us, since he's in Fresno, but he was out training yesterday too.

Annual Expo for AIDS/LifeCycle

PG&E Power Pedalers, Mariana, Jan, Neil, Emilia, Carol

Each year AIDS/LifeCycle holds a large event (think 1000 people including 150 volunteers), to help acclimate Cyclists & Roadies to ALC & the one week event they will participate in the first week of June.  There are booths, bike raffles, free clothing, information on camping, training rides, fundraising clinics, changing a flat tire, everything a newbie might need to know.  Five PG&E team members jumped in together for a photo.  Mariana and Neil are new cyclists, Carol is a new Roadie.  Jan & Emilia are returnees.

Training has started for 2015

The training has begun, because without serious training, we wouldn't be able to ride 7 days and 545 miles in June.  There were 88 riders and 7 are either PG&E employees, contractors, family or friends.  Some of us did the 30 mile option, but most chose the 46 miles.

Herb is our newest team member.

 

 The group shot, in the Orinda BART parking lot, was our starting point for the ride.



 Below April is doing some warm up stretches, they are done as a group in a big blob like circle.  April is still on the fence about riding in June, but we think she will commit soon.

2015 ALC here we come

Today was our first, PG&E team but unofficial ALC team training ride, for the 2015 ride.  Emilia, Jan, Larry, Drew, David, & Theresa in the front.  We rode 25 miles that included a few hills.