Saturday Morning 7/11 6:00 Stow

[gcdavid]

I need to ride 4 hours (ish). Going easy. Open to route. Thinking of the Climb to the Foothills route (68 miles):

http://www.crw.org/cgi-bin/cues2htm.pl?id=288

Done it plenty of times. Goes around Wachusett Reservoir. Cut out the bit east of Stow, and this map shows the route

http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united-st ... /534960109

But, I am open to other options.

The route is arrowed (not that it matters, since people seem to ignore them)

[Pattie]

Unfortunately, the course is marked with lots of arrows that look the same in the same color

[rusto]

Looks like a good route. Is the start point over there by Hanscom as your map shows or at S. Acton train station per the cue sheet?

[gcdavid]

I know they must "all look alike" to you, but as you can see the arrows are clearly different from one another:

http://crw.org/CueSheets/ArrowGuide.php

[cp43]

I'm in. This is starting from Stow plaza, correct?

I will try to pay better attention to the arrows this time.

Chris

[gcdavid]

Yep. Stow Plaza.

[rusto]

I know they must "all look alike" to you, but as you can see the arrows are clearly different from one another:

http://crw.org/CueSheets/ArrowGuide.php

Will you be bringing one of these?

[gcdavid]

Only if we need to translate the hieroglyphs into Greek. Otherwise I think we're good.

[argus]

I am in.

ποδήλατο

[ahamilton]

In for 2-3 hours. I'll turn back when the clock runs out for me.

[Bruce]

left at 8:45 and rode the course backwards looking for you guys. did you depart from the marked course?

[gcdavid]

Only at one point. We took Oak Hill Road down instead of the other road because it is so bad at the bottom. Might have missed you there.

[Bruce]

Gary is this the same ride CRW is doing tomorrow?
What is your next event?

[gcdavid]

Nope. This was climb to the foothills. Different route than climb to the clouds. I did that last week on Friday. Climb to the Foothills originates at South Acton train station, and you follow and inverted yellow T.

Next race is Ironman Lake Placid. Finally.

[DPatnaude]

Bruce,

Climb to the Foothills is being run by CRW on Sunday, July 12. 9:30 AM Start from South Action for the longer ride. 10:00 AM for shorter options.

Dave