Centuries & Other Organized Rides (2010)

SHORTCUT TO MONTH: JAN-FEB-MAR-APR-MAY-JUN-JUL-AUG-SEP-OCT-NOV-DEC
('#' = date unknown or yet to be determined by event organizer)

JANUARY
10: Casa Grande Century (Chandler, AZ)
16: Winter Stagecoach Century (Ocotillo)

FEBRUARY
[6]: Pedal to Pier (San Luis Obispo)
7: Paskenta Century (Chico)
7: The Dirt Bowl (Marin)
13: Tour de Palm Springs
14: Rice Valley Tandem Rally (Chico)
20: Camino Real Double Century (Irvine)
27: Mardis Gras Century (Ventura)
27: Pedaling Paths to Independence (Ventura)

MARCH
6: Spring Death Valley Century and Double Century
6: King's River Blossom Bike Ride (Reedley)
6: Tour de Sewer (Bell Gardens)
7: Tour of the Unknown Valley - South (Chico)
7: Grandondo Colnago (San Diego)
13: Solvang Century (SCOR)
14: Fargo Street Hill Climb (Los Angeles)
20-21: Tour of Borrego (Borrego Springs)
27: Redlands Rotary Ride (Redlands)
27: OCW Spring Metric Century (Irvine)
27: Solvang Double Century (Planet Ultra)
27: Redlands Cycling Classic (Redlands)
28: Spring Century (Anaheim Hills)
28: Tour of the Unknown Valley - North (Chico)

APRIL
3: Hell's Gate Hundred (Death Valley)
3: Party Pardee (Ione)
3: The Santa Clarita Century (Valencia)
10: Cinderella Classic (Dublin)
10: Mulholland Challenge & Double Century (Malibu)
10: Julian Death March (Julian )
11: Primavera Century (Fremont)
11: Break Away from Cancer Ride (Palo Alto)
15-18: Sea Otter Classic (Monterey)
17: Hemet Century & Double Century (Riverside County)
17: Tierra Bella Century (Gilroy)
17: Cycle for Sight (Napa)
[17]: Bike Around the Buttes (Sutter)
17: Devil Mountain Double Century
17: Rosarito-Ensenada
17: Mount Lagune Bicycle Classic
17: Mr. Frog's Wild Ride (Murphys)
17: Gold Coast Ride for Literacy (Ventura)
17: Justin Bike-a-Thon (Paso Robles)
24: Tour de OC (Costa Mesa)
24: Wildflower Century (San Luis Obispo)
24: Alpine Challenge (Alpine)
24: Mount Hamilton Challenge
25: Break Away from Cancer Ride II (Palo Alto)
25: Diablo Century (Walnut Creek)
25: The Wildflower (Chico)
25: City of Angels Fun Ride (Los Angeles)
[hiatus]: Alta Sierra Challenge (Bakersfield)
[hiatus]: Spring Stagecoach Century (Ocotillo)
[hiatus]: Steinbeck Watershed Century (Carmel)
[hiatus]: San Clemente Challenge (San Clemente)

MAY
1: Tour of Two Forests Double Century (Santa Clarita)
1: Wine Country Century (Santa Rosa)
1: Breathless Agony Ride(Redlands)
1: Pathways Hospice Foundation MTB Ride (Palo Alto)
1-2: The 'X' Rides (Area 51, Rachel NV)
2: Grizzly Peak Century (Berkeley)
2: Delta Century (Stockton)
2: Tour de Cure (Napa)
6: Pedalin' with the Poppies (Acton)
8: Central Coast Double (Paso Robles)
8: Crusin' the Conejo (Conejo Valley)
9: Tour of the Unknown Coast (Humboldt)
15-16: Fiesta 150 (Irvine)
15: I Care Classic (Morgan Hill)
15: Sunrise Century (Lodi)
15: Davis Double Century
16: Strawberry Fields Forever (Aptos)
16: Monticello Solano Century (Vacaville)
16: Foothill Century (Sunnyvale)
21: LA Bike Tour
22: Indian Valley Century (Greenville)
28-31: Great Western Bicycle Rally (Paso Robles)
29: Heartbreak Hundred & Double Century (Palmdale)
[hiatus]: MS 150 Cruisin' to the Coast (Lone Pine)
[hiatus]: Kirch Century (Fresno)
[hiatus]: Old Route 66 Century (Hesperia)
[hiatus]: The Two Rock Ride (Petaluma)

JUNE
5: Ojai Valley Century
5: Eastern Sierra Double Century (Bishop)
6-12: AIDS/LifeCycle (SF-LA)
6: Bike the Bridges (Martinez)
6: Mendocino Monster (Ukiah)
6: Sequoia Century (Palo Alto)
6: America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride (Lake Tahoe)
12: Ride Around the Bear (Orange County)
12: Alta Alpina Challenge (Markleeville)
12: Hayfork Century
12: Canyon Classic Century (Modesto)
17: San Francisco Randonneurs Brevet Populaire (Marin)
19-26: Sierra to the Sea (Sonora-SF)
19: Tour de Blast (Longview)
19: Terrible Two (Santa Rosa)
19: Best of the Bay Century (Orinda)
26: Giro di Peninsula (San Mateo)
26: Country Coast Classic (Cambria)
26: Summer Solstice Century (Plumas)
26: Climb to Kaiser (Clovis)
26: Los Angeles Grand Tour (Malibu)
27: Tour of the Carson Valley (Genoa, NV)
[hiatus]: Go Greenbelt!
[hiatus]: Comstock Silver Century (Genoa NV)
[hiatus]: Mountain Lakes Challenge (Ashland, OR)

JULY
11: Three Harbors Tour (Ventura)
11: Bike for Breath (Foster City)
10: Death Ride (Markleeville)
10: Triple Bypass (Evergreen CO)
17: Windmill Century (Los Alamos)
17-18: Seattle to Portland Classic
17: Fall River Century (Fall River Mills)
17: Ride to Defeat ALS (Avila Beach)
23-35: Rough Riders Rally
31: Santa Cruz Mountains Challenge

AUGUST
1: Tour de Peninsula
1: Mount Shasta Summit Century
7: Marin Century & Mount Tamalpais Double Century
7-14: Oregon Bicycle Ride (Roseburg OR)
[14]: Holstein Hundred (Tomales)
15: Tour of Napa Valley
21: Cool Breeze Century (Channel Islands)
28: The Immortals (Ridgecrest)
29: Venus de Miles (Longmont, CO)
#: YWCA Break the Cycle (Windsor)

SEPTEMBER
11: Siskiyou Century (Yreka)
11: Amtrak Century (San Diego)
#: Auburn Century
11: Best Buddies Hearst Castle Challenge (Monterey)
18: High Sierra Fall Century (Mammoth)
11-12: Sonoma Waves to Wine
#: Big Ride Pacific Coast (Seattle to San Francisco)
12: Tour de Tahoe
12: Chileno Valley Cycling Classic
18: Knoxville Double Century (Vacaville)
18-19: Unknown Coast Weekend (Ferndale)
#: Ride to Defeat ALS (Napa)
25: Tahoe Sierra Century
25: Lighthouse Century (San Luis Obispo)
#: BORP Revolution in the Vineyards (Geyserville)
25-26: Buddhist Bicycle Pilgrimage (Marin)
#: Tour of Woodside
25-2 (Oct): California Coast Classic (SF-LA)
26-2 (Oct): OATBRAN (Nevada)
[hiatus]: Picnic in the Park (Ridgecrest)

OCTOBER
2-4: Furnace Creek 508 (Death Valley)
#: Grizzly Century (North Fork)
#: Angeles Crest Century
#: Surf City Century (Santa Cruz)
#: Harvest Ride (Hopland)
3:Princess Promenade (Sacramento)
#: Condor Classic (Hollister)
#: Colonel Allensworth Century (Allensworth)
#: Inland Express-STS (Riverside)
6: Wheels for Meals Ride (Livermore)
#: Bass Lake Powerhouse Double Century (Clovis)
#: Riverbank Cheese & Wine Century
#: People Powered Ride (Goleta)
#: Foxy's Fall Century (Davis)
9: Levi's Gran Fondo (Santa Rosa)
16: Solvang Fall Double Century & Century (Planet Ultra)
#: JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes (Death Valley)
16: Wine and Roses Bike Ride (Templeton)
#: Valley Girls Ride (Clovis)
16-17: Seismic Challenge (Fort Bragg to San Francisco)
16-17: Quincy Weekend (Oroville)
#: Spooktacular (Bakersfield)
21-24: Ride to Empower (Solvang)
30: Death Valley Fall Century and Double Century
#: Mount Diablo Challenge
#: MS 150 Bike Tour (Santa Barbara)
[hiatus]: Salton Sea Century (Borrego Springs)
[hiatus]: Burn of the Century (Nevada City)
[hiatus]: Moonlight Magic Century (Lone Pine)
[hiatus]: Ride to Defeat ALS (Sierras)

NOVEMBER
#: Borrego Double Ordeal (Oceanside)
#: Tour de Julien (MTB/Santa Ysabel)
#: Le Tour de Foothills (Upland)
13: Solvang's Finest Century

DECEMBER
#: Planet Ultra Club Christmas Century (Calabasas)
#: Hostelling Int'l USA Christmas Ride (San Diego)
#: Borrego Springs Century (Borrego Springs)





"Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood."
— Susan B. Anthony

"Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine."
— Richard Ballantine

"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking."
— Arthur Conan Doyle, 1896

"I thought of that while riding my bicycle."
— Albert Einstein

"Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing."
— Helen Keller

"The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community."
— Ann Strong — 1895

"Cycling satisfies so many needs. If you're in a gregarious mood, you can go out with a group. Or you can go alone- solo. If you're in an aggressive mood, you can go fast, or if you're tired and want to unwind you can go slow. A bicycle doesn't discriminate in age, either."
— Georgena Terry

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
— Mark Twain

"The bicycle supplies ... a new pleasure — the pleasure of going where one wills, because one wills... Riding the wheel, our own powers are revealed to us... You have conquered a new world, and exultingly you take possession of it."
— Marie E. Ward, 1896

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
— H.G. Wells

"She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life."
— Frances E. Willard,
How I Learned to
Ride the Bicycle