This is the club's big event for the year, we hope you enjoyed participating in the event as much as we enjoyed staging it.  The weather was perfect and many of us had a tail wind all the way back to Santa Rosa!

Very special thanks to Bruce Hopfengardner who did a wonderful job as the Chair of the event.

2011 Event photography by  and Miles John

It won't be long before we start planning for next year's version scheduled for May 5th 2012.  Registration will open Feb 1, 2012.

Here are comments from some of the 2011 participants who have contacted us:

• We just finished riding the metric century for the 6th or 7th time. We love this ride; my thanks to your members for the great job they do putting on the ride.  Thanks! We'll be back next year.

• I and fairly large number of friends greatly enjoyed today's century, and we were all very impressed with the terrific organization and spirit of the many volunteers. Thank you very much for making it possible!

• I wanted to send a quick note of appreciation for a great Wine Country Century today.  In addition to the great weather (nice tailwind at the end of the day) the support was superb.  The course was well marked (I did the 200K) and the volunteers did an outstanding job.  Check-in this morning was flawless and the rest stops were well stocked with great selection and supported by enthusiastic volunteers.  Please extend my appreciation to all involved.  This was my first Wine Country Century and I hope to come back for more.  One correction, according to my VDO altimeter the vertical gain on the 200K route is 6,500' or 2,000' more than advertised.

• Completed my 1st 100K ride in the Wine Country..... It was awesome! The route was awesome, the weather was awesome( could have done without the wind) :-) but most of all the rest stopped rocked! Best event ever! Will be back again!

• I wanted to express my congratulations on an excellent event. This was my first 60 miler and all went well. I felt very relaxed and safe on the route. Wish I had more pockets to pack more of those great cookies for the ride. Hope to do it again next year.

• Your club rocks!  Can’t wait to ride and say “thanks” to all of you along the way

• I'm writing to say thanks for an outstanding experience.  . I participated in the 100K.   I was so impressed by the support services that were provided along the entire  route.  Food, drinks, bag drop, facilities, folks,  Everything.  Wow.  The volunteers were just wonderful.   Having volunteered for a similar event (Fondo) I know from experience how hard the work can sometimes be.  The SRCC volunteers were awesome!  So friendly, so professional, so helpful.  I joined the SRCC last year and have been on a couple of rides, which I thoroughly enjoyed, but I had not seen an event sponsored by the club.  I was blown away and it made me proud to be a part of something so wonderful.  We had out of town guests coming down to join my husband and I on the ride and we all had a marvelous time.  Thank you so much for such an outstanding event from start to finish.  Even the bell ringers along the road made the event just that much more fun!!!!
  Thank you for making my first 100K the best ever and very, very memorable.

• Last Saturday with a welcome wind at my back and a picture postcard landscape of the Alexander Valley gracing the final 20 miles of the 2011 Wine Country Century, it occurred to me why, after two decades of pedaling through at least 200 Northern California centuries, the WCC remains at the very top of all the rides I've ever done.
  Sure, the WCC offers a diversity of gorgeous scenery -- everything from panoramic meadows and ridgeroad vinyards to forested canyon glades -- as well as challenging climbs and yahoohoohoo downhills.  But what matters more is that WCC riders will always find great provisioning, great course marking, great SAG presence, and an abundance of smiling volunteers ready to help on everything from crossing busy highways to vending warm tortillas or arranging peanut butter hors d'oeuvres at rest stops.  The club just plain goes all out to make participants feel welcome.  And the damn thing is that this year I sensed the riders responding by, for the most part, honoring the single file parade in some areas as requested by your billboards.  And that to me is really remarkable.  So even your gentle but persistent safety outreach seems to be yielding results....at least when I was in the vicinity.  So again, well done.
  About the only thing that would make last Saturday's ride better would be if I learned that not a single rider suffered accidental mishap during the day.
  Thank you for another great ride.  The WCC is a classic.

• Great Ride…
  We did the 100K and enjoyed it.  Great Rest Stops with Friendly volunteers and good food!
  The second year I have done it and will be back next year.
  Please increase the size and Frequency of the road makers.  Didn’t get lost but a couple of time at the intersections and turns
  rider’s missed the course markers.  Unfortunately, Sonoma County needs to do some road improvements.
  Thanks again for a providing an excellent ride in a beautiful setting!
  

• This was my first WCC. I did the century ride.
  It was a great ride. Fantastic scenery and a very well supported ride.
  The rest stops were great, not only for the snacks you offered, but the very friendly and supportive volunteers. Hats off to them. Truly wonderful.
  Some suggestions:
  -Cold coke (or pepsi) at the lunch stop would be great. It gives a jolt of (much needed) energy and actually helps settle the stomach down too.
  -Bread for the sandwiches was too thick. In a normal day, thicker bread is okay, but when you are trying to get some food down after 70 miles, a thinner bread would be a lot better.
  -some of the roads were missing the red markings for the century ride…
  All in all, a great ride. Thanks again. Will be back next year.

• Nice, nice job everyone!
  What a great day…great volunteers, nice energizer snacks and lunch, and you couldn’t do better with the landscape…..everything was wonderful…
  We will be back!

• I rode the 100 mile route of this year's century---it was my first century---and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The SRCC did a wonderful job of selecting and identifying the course, registering riders, and supporting them throughout the day. I couldn't think of anything I might have wanted that wasn't provided at the rest stops, which were well thought-out and supplied. Thank you for a job well done.
  Regarding my inquiry, what is the name of the Google software that the club used to develop the map and profile? It is marvelous, and I'd like to plot my own routes with it.  (www.ridewithgps.com   Ed.)

• I just wanted to tell you what a wonderful event you hosted on Saturday. Besides the weather just being phenomenol, the volunteers, route, and food were great. It was just a very pleasurable experience. Thanks to you all,