Thanks for the ride Bill, Bryan, and Mike. Sorry, my GPS didn't work right after lunch, so it had me take a left on Pleasant Ridge rather than a right. I knew I was off course, but couldn't get it reset to get back on course. By the time I did get back to the course, it would have been 120+ miles to finish the century route, so I headed back via the 33 route. Still don't know how many I ended up with, since my computer stopped tracking mileage when I was off course. Probably somewhere around 90. Hope you guys made it back safely.
Great riding with you guys again, had an outstanding time. Sorry about your GPS Mark (I swear I changed nothing on it), Bill and I were off course pretty much right after lunch as well. We were following the markers (great job on those btw) from that point on.
Sorry, I did not do the whole 100 mile route.
When I got to the top of Petty Gap road, and
felt the wind on top of the ridge and saw no
other riders in front or behind me, I knew
I was going to lose the single speed/man verses
wind battle. I turned around and went back to
Woodbury and did the Hot 80.
I will attempt it again next weekend!
Tried that as best I could, but once I missed it, there weren't any markers to tell me that I missed it! Just needed a cue sheet, but they were running low today. I found some very exciting roads-- must have been 20%+ grade, and thankfully, it was downhill. Wouldn't recommend it though, since it was a very rough road. Hope you had a good ride.
Mark - I am so sorry for the cue sheet shortage - we had 50 people show up and I just didn't plan very well.
Many thanks to Bob Barkley for designing such a beautiful route!
Thanks to Steve Lovett, Bill Stephens, Dave Becker, Bob Barkley, Don Holder and Dave McLaughlin who spent many hours and drove many miles marking the route this past week.
We have identified some areas that could be marked more clearly - and we also found some marks that had been tampered with before 2:00 yesterday. We will get those fixed before Saturday.
Thanks to all who came out and gave feed back - it's nice that the volunteers who work so hard next weekend got a chance to enjoy the route. I counted 18 volunteers on the sign in sheet - so other than the Race Team and a couple of other folks who have conflicts on Saturday - where would the rest of you like to work on the 22nd? We have needs at the Rest Stop, route monitors, Clean up crew, and Bike Rodeo -It would be nice if some of our Registration Volunteers didn't have to work both Registration and Rest Stops and Clean up...and don't forget the post ride Volunteer Thank You Party - sponsored in part by New Belgium Brewing.