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Congratulations to everyone who has completed
at least One Double Century in 2022 shown HERE.
Even More Congratulations to the
2022 California Triple Crown Winners shown HERE.
Be a California Triple Crown Winner this year!!
HUGE Congratulations to the
2022 California Triple Crown Gold Thousand Mile Club Winners shown HERE.
Be a California Triple Crown Gold Thousand Mile Club Winner this year!!
You need to volunteer at a Double Century to be a Gold Thousand Mile Club Winner.
Click the Volunteer link next to a Double in the Calendar below.
To The California Triple Crown Family:
In order to be a more informed Double Century cyclist, we highly encourage you to join the California Triple Crown Group on Facebook HERE
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CALIFORNIA TRIPLE CROWN AWARDS BREAKFAST ANNOUNCED
The California Triple Crown Awards Breakfast will be held on Sunday September 11, 2022 from 7:30 A.M. to about 10:00 A.M. In order to attend, you need to reserve your seat in advance for the Awards Breakfast. You can find out all about it, reserve your seat and see who has registered at www.CalTripleCrown.com/Awards
The Breakfast will be held indoors at the Rancho Senior Center in Irvine. It is just a couple of miles from the Start / Finish of the Beach City Double from the day before. Please wear your favorite California Triple Crown Jersey or Double Century Event Jersey and stay to the end to be in the photos and congratulate the Hall of Famers.
Be sure to come and recognize those who will be inducted into the California Triple Crown Hall of Fame this year!! The California Triple Crown Hall of Fame was started in June of 1999 to recognize those who have accomplished a significant milestone in the Double Century Series by riding over 10,000 Miles or over 50 Double Centuries!! There will be special awards given to those riders who complete 100, 150, and 200 Double Centuries as well. There will be some surprises that you won't want to miss. Because of the COVID pandemic, we couldn't safely have an Awards Breakfast in 2020 or 2021 so we have some catching up to do which we'll do this year and next.
We will also recognize cyclists who completed their first Double Century in 2022 or their first California Triple Crown Completion in 2022 with complimentary California Triple Crown Water Bottles so please join us at the Awards Breakfast!!
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RESULTS OF 13 2022 DOUBLE CENTURIES POSTED
The results of the 2022 Camino Real, Joshua Tree, Solvang Spring, Hemet, Mulholland, Devil Mountain, Davis, Heartbreak, Eastern Sierra, Tour of Two Forests, Terrible Two, Alta Alpina 8 Pass Challenge, and Grand Tour Doubles have been posted HERE.
Congratulations to the 143 riders who have already completed their California Triple Crown in 2022 as shown HERE by riding all 3 of these Double Centuries!!
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RESULTS OF FIRST TWO STAGES OF THE 2022 CALIFORNIA TRIPLE CROWN STAGE RACE ANNOUNCED
After completing the first two brutally tough stages of the 2022 California Triple Crown Stage Race, the following riders are on the podiums:
2022 Overall Division:
1 - Frank Torres
2 - Kenny Owen
3 - Mark Christopherson
Frank, Kenny, and Mark completed the Stage 1 on the Mulholland Double in the same time of 12:26.
Frank completed the Stage 2 on the Alta Alpina 8 Pass Challenge 52 minutes ahead of Kenny and 1:13 ahead of Mark.
2022 Women's Division:
1 - Brenda Nguyen
Congratulations to everyone.
32 cyclists completed the Mulholland Double on April 9, 2022 under beautiful conditions.
Only 23 cyclists completed the course by starting at 6am and completing this radically difficult course within 18 hours.
Only a select 17 cyclists were able to complete the Alta Alpina 8 Pass Challenge on this incredibly difficult course.
All of the results are up HERE
We tip our helmets to all of those who have completed the first two stages of this most difficult 2022 Stage Race. The third and final stage was held on the Carmel Valley Double on August 27, 2022 and the results will be posted there soon.
Everyone who completes all three stages will be recognized at the 2022 California Triple Crown Awards Breakfast to be held on 9/11/22, the day after the Beach City Double. The 3 winners in each division will be awarded the coveted California Triple Crown Stage Race Plaques.
Don't forget to sign up for the 2022 California Triple Crown Awards Breakfast as shown HERE
We are looking for photos from these Double Centuries. Please e-mail them to Chuck Bramwell at CBrams at CalTripleCrown.com
To complete the California Triple Crown Stage Race is a HUGE Accomplishment in cycling!!
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BEACH CITY DOUBLE CENTURY
This year the 5th Annual Beach City Double is on September 10, 2022. The Courtyard/Marriott JWA in Irvine will be your host hotel and the location of the start/finish. The Courtyard has a special room for you if you need commendations, Hammer has great hydration and performance products for you on the course, and there will be a well planned out route with friendly well stocked rest stops, and awesome SAG to help make your day all that more enjoyable.
The route starts in Irvine, goes through Santigo Canyon, Live Oak Canyon, Florence Joyner Olympiad Park, Laguna Canyon, Laguna Beach, Inspiration Point, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach (Surf City, USA), Seal Beach, Long Beach, and turns around at the Queen Mary, then back to Irvine through Newport Beach's Back Bay, then lunch at nice Irvine park. After lunch then the route goes through Mission Viejo to Wagon Wheel Canyon, San Juna Capistrano, Capo Beach, down to a beautiful ocean view park in San Clemente, and then back to Irvine via Dana Point, Laguna Niguel, Aliso Viejo, Lake Forest, and finish back in Irvine.
We look forward seeing you at the Beach City Double to enjoy a fun filled energetic day with your friends riding to the beautiful vista points along the beaches and to all the other great highlights in Orange County.
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KNOXVILLE FALL CLASSIC DOUBLE CENTURY
The Knoxville Fall Classic Double Century is filling up fast for the main event on September 24, 2022. The Staff Ride will be held September 17, 2022. Check out the Knoxville Fall Classic Double Website for ride details and to register. We have a limited amount of registrations available for the public event with only 21 spaces available. Also, we can always use volunteers if someone wants to be involved but not ride the event.
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BEST OF THE BAY DOUBLE CENTURY
Plans are being finalized for the 2022 Best of the Bay Double (BOB) on October 1, 2022. Registration is open. Check out the Best of the Bay Website for ride details and to register.
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The Prestigious Gold Thousand Mile Club Jersey
The Gold Thousand Mile Club Jersey is only available to those cyclists who complete Five Double Centuries or 1,000 Miles of Double Centuries in One Year PLUS volunteer to support at least one of them. These rides can only continue if volunteers (spelled Y-O-U) jump in and help. Support means that you and/or a family member or friend volunteered to help with a California Triple Crown Double Century. It's not enough to just ride the rides because if that's all everyone does, these major adventures will go the way of the dinosaurs!! It's not easy running Rest Stops 200+ Miles from nowhere so each of these rides need YOUR help. Besides that, it's fun to help out your fellow cyclists and get a chance to talk to some really great people. Active Double Century riders cannot donate their volunteer days to other riders.
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In 1987, Lon Haldeman and Pete Penseyres rode Across America from Huntington Beach, California to Atlantic City, New Jersey, on a Tandem in 7 Days and 14 Hours.
Their record is still the fastest non-stop crossing of the United States by bicycle!!
On the last day, Pete was interviewed while riding on the back of the tandem:
"The important point is to set a goal just beyond your reach.
So if you do meet it, you'll feel really good about the fact that you did your best, considering the circumstances.
As opposed to just like cruising in and then two days later, you start thinking back, Gee we could have done better. There won't be any of that.
We won't have any regrets about how hard we rode. And whether we made it.
We''ve done the best we could the whole way.
And we're going to feel great tonight!!"
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We look forward to seeing and riding with everyone on the Live Double Centuries in 2022!!
Tony Musorafite, California Triple Crown Assistant Data Guy
Mike Sturgill, California Triple Crown Assistant Data Guy
Lynn Katano, California Triple Crown Social Director
Roland Hoffman, California Triple Crown History Guy
Charlie Irwin, California Triple Crown Software Guy
Chuck Bramwell, California Triple Crown Guy
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