Back to School Century 160k

162km/6200ft RUSA Populaire


Start time Saturday April 25, 2026 7:00 am
Time limit 10 hours 48 minutes
Ride ends Saturday April 25, 2026 5:48 pm
Start location Urban Plates 8707 Villa La Jolla Dr La Jolla, CA 92037
Nearest parking Parking available at start location.
Map rwgps
Organizers Osvaldo Colavin
Registration info Brevet has already taken place.
Registered riders There are 7 registered riders.
James Allen
Dean Dobberteen
Andrew Frohreich
James Pringle
Michael Tomcho
Dorina Vaccaroni
Aliya Weise
Results RUSA results page
Copley Library, USD

This century is a tour of the 6 “universities”, both public and private, in San Diego County. Starting in the La Jolla Village Square shopping center parking lot, you’ll make your way south to through some urban jungle to stop by Copley Library in University of San Diego and then to Point Loma to Meiras Hall in Point Loma Nazarene University, a scenic campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Leaving the Ocean behind, you’ll make your way inland through Mission Valley to reach San Diego State University. In the late 80s the school was ranked by Playboy Magazine as Number 3 party school and perhaps the oldest of 6 schools.

Meiras Hall, PLNU

You’ll ride up the I-15 corridor to reach Alliant University hidden in the eucalyptus trees of Scripps Ranch. You’ll continue your trek north through various bedroom communities before reaching CSU San Marcos on Twin Oaks Valley Rd.

Passing by Lake San Marcos, you’ll pedal back to the coast and proceed southward to reach UC San Diego, the last campus on this tour. You’ll ride by the school’s iconic building, the Geisel Library, named after Dr Seuss, the renowned author for his memorable stories set to whimsical rhymes.

SDSU
CSU San Marcos
Geisel Library, UCSD

Please read our accepted proof of passage.