So I'm just thinking out loud here but there are 7 weekends between August and the tour so I'm thinking of a schedule like this:
- 8/6 20ish miles flat
- 8/14 30-35 miles some hills
- 8/20 40 miles flat
- 8/27 40 miles flat
- 9/3 60 miles hills (Hightstown to New Hope)
- 9/10 80 miles ???
- 9/17 30-35 miles some hills
- 9/24 TDP
These will all be social paced ride about a 13-16 mph average (could be faster depending on the group). These dates aren't definite as I'm not sure of all my plans for those weekends. I will probably shift some of these rides to Sunday of that weekend as needed. I'm also open to doing some rides during the week after work. Those might need to be a little more spirited to beat the dark.
I'm really only familiar with the roads around where I live so these will all be based out of either Princeton (
Griggstown Causeway off of Canal Rd) or
Village Park in Cranbury. For anyone that participated in Wobbegongs road ride series last year this will be identical to that.
For the 80 mile day i'd like to try and ride from
near the* Assunpink wildlife management area to the Hartshorne woods area and back but I've never done it and don't have a gps course for that yet, I know a few people on the boards have done it so i'll have to talk to them.
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I don't know what the parking is like there so we could leave from Hightstown which would add about 10 miles. It will probably turn into a century...
Thoughts?