Egan 2022 Season Recap
Dear friends,
It has been a busy season at Egan 2022. After a sad beginning with James’ sendoff to Australia, we kept the show going. We dodged many obstacles from fire, smoke, and extreme heat waves to a near mutiny. But at last, we completed an entire season of pain and suffering during the summer’s golden hour. We are grateful for this amazing cycling community.
Recap by the numbers:
27 customized rides, each week featuring a different route, with 27 recon rides by leaders = 54 total Egan rides
Total elevation gain: 2.4 times Mt. Everest!
Total number of segments: 272 (average 10 per week)
Total PRs: 5,509 or 204 PRs per week
Total KOMs: 54 or 2 per week
Total participants: 160 riders
Average riders per week: 43. Most ever in one ride: 63 (underestimate, since not everyone has joined Egan on Strava)
1 sendoff party for James on top of Mora
1 surprise birthday party for Akin at Arastradero. Thanks to his wife Stacy for bringing a cake & their beloved whippets!
5 leaders (2 new leaders added: Akin and Steven)
1 pizza party sponsored by Terun and hosted by Helena and Casper
2 photoshoots by Christophe Testi (Egan & AVRT). Support Christophe if you need a family or corporate photoshoot this holiday season.
1 year-end ice cream delivery at the top of Madonna by the 3 ice cream fairies: Sue Lin, Kimberly and Lauren
1 bird rescued by Robin with her Egan jersey
3 amazing jerseys designed by Natalie Tellis and Eliel that have travelled internationally to Australia, France, Italy, Singapore, Spain…
1 AV website redesigned by Akin and Will
1 year-end gathering & pizza at SOM sponsored by the AV Board of Directors. Don’t forget to join AV, the amazing club that supports Egan
2022 awards:
Rider of the year: Alexandrine Obrand
GC men and women: George Wehner and Alexandrine Obrand
Participation: Claude Luu and Yvonne Walbroehl
Best Strava title of the year: Yuval Joseph for “I don’t know George but i took his suffer pill, it was painful”
Best Instagrams of the year: Justin Pane (redbeardpane), Nick UCDecents (ucdescents), Roger Pai (rogerincal) and Chloéeee Nguyen (chloeeeestagram)
Best costume of the year: Matt Flanzer
Worst bike maintenance of the year: Joshua Wise
Best Roadies: Simon Parton and Chloéeee Nguyen
Thank you for an amazing year!
Akin, Greg, Jerome, Mike and Steven
Lauren, the Ice cream fairy in action at the last Egan route of 2022. She was there with her sister Kimberly 3 years ago.
Akin with his two whippets: Tesla and Shadow. Tracy was so kind to bring his giant birthday cake for 50 riders!
Another use for our Egan jersey: bird shelter. Robin saved a bird that was later adopted!
Egan is officially over but those Egan rebels to do a make-up Egan the following week.