Thursday Coffee Crew is a regular ride all year (as far as I know). This is an option if you want to be abused at 6:10 on a weekday morning in Southern California.
I’ve done this ride twice and I always have a bit of warm-up getting to the start at Campus and University (adjacent to the UC Irvine campus). It’s a big group and the ride remains civilized until it gets into the neighborhood of the old Air Base (MCAS El Toro).
On this day we rode with the group until splitting to meet a couple more people in Laguna Beach for a ride through Laguna Canyon followed by a long spin out to Long Beach and back.
Great before work ride (if you’re into that sort of thing – work, I mean…).