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mattotoole
05-20-09, 09:47 PM
...as of tonight (Wednesday). So come ride!


http://www.cyclingdoubleheader.com (http://www.cyclingdoubleheader.com)

There's no rider limit for Wilderness Road Ride.

Hope to see you this weekend, the best Cycling Double Header ever!

NealH
05-21-09, 09:19 PM
I will be there for the 58 mile Wilderness event and, maybe the Misery event depending on how I feel Sunday morning. I do wish the organizers provided a metric route on Sunday. Oh well...what's a few extra miles :lol:.
wolfpack
05-22-09, 05:31 AM
dang...i thought AoMM was expensive at $80!!

songfta
05-22-09, 08:13 AM
There are two ways to make MoM a shorter ride without deviating from a supported route (though your time will, of course, be invalid and you'd need to point that out to ride officials if you end up anywhere near the leaders of the two official lengths):

1. You could follow the double-metric folks between miles 28 and 29, taking a left onto Rte 311 in New Castle (first rest stop), then rejoin the century route 5 miles later at Rte 658 (at the second rest stop). Note that this adds a fairly substantial hill to the mix, but does chop off about 8 miles.

2. You could chop out about 12 miles of big rollers by staying on Rte 42 at mile 77-or-so (at Newport, just before the parking area at the rec center), heading directly to the crossing of US460 onto Rte 605, then to the base of the final climb.

So you'd end up with an 80 mile course for the day that still has all of the big climbs (and an additional climb between miles 29 and 32) but less distance. Click here (http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-states/va/newport/266124300206245625) to see a map of this shortened route.


I will be there for the 58 mile Wilderness event and, maybe the Misery event depending on how I feel Sunday morning. I do wish the organizers provided a metric route on Sunday. Oh well...what's a few extra miles :lol:.
NealH
05-22-09, 06:49 PM
dang...i thought AoMM was expensive at $80!!

Yea, it is a bit high. But I'm sitting here in the Best Western as I write this and darn, Radford is a pretty place. I have a feeling this will be a nice event.

Thanks for the info songfta, but I think I will go for it all. I've come this far so I might as well.