I might try to do Tour de Cashiers
64 mile option.
BikeWNC, does the ride do a mass start right at 9am, or do riders take off in smaller bunches as they are ready?
~~~~~~~~62 miles~~~~~~~~~~~~
The official route is posted on mapmyride.com, but that site is pretty useless for route information.
Instead, here's the
2012 route on ridewithgps.com It looks like they are repeating the same route in 2013.
Click the
Map pulldown list at top right, and
checkmark Terrain, then zoom in. You can drag the little orange Street View guy and drop it onto the route to see the view there.
from the
Metrics tab:
7880 feet of climbing in 62.4 miles.
(This counts every small rise and dip in the road, just like a Garmin recording does. mapmyride averages out the smaller elevation changes, so they say 5600 feet)
The larger climbs. (ridewithgps can over-estimate short,steep climbs in the mountains, though)
I got these by dragging a section of the red graph to get Metrics statistics for that part of the ride.
at mile 4, 450 feet in 2 miles.
at mile 14, 350 feet in 1 mile.
at mile 31, 1500 feet in 5 miles, average 5.5%, some 8-10% sections, max 12%
at mile 44, 1800 feet in 4.5 miles, average 6+%, some 10% sections, max 14%
and some of the smaller climbs are steep, too.
the first big downhill at mile 15 is 6 miles, -1900 feet.
the other one at mile 36 is 5 miles, -1700 feet.
~~~~~~~~~~~100 miles~~~~~~~~
This
ridewithgps route matches the official 100 mile route.
14,750 feet in 100 miles!