New Start Location

We'll try a new start location for Saturday's ride.  There are great roads northward towards and around Gray that are hard to access from Rivoli or Geico unless it's a longer (80+mi) ride.  So we'll begin this week from Northridge Baptist Church located 2.6 miles north of I-75 on the west side of Gray Highway. We'll probably use this start point  few times over the winter.

Saturday's route will be a 65-mile clockwise loop around Gray with a store stop in Haddock as shown on map below.  Start is Saturday at 9am at the back parking lot of Northridge Church.

One short dirt section is included to avoid some busy roads.  It is the section we rode last week - it's very smooth with zero gravel.

Map to Northridge Baptist Church, 2360 Gray Highway, Macon.  Park at the area circled in red on the image below.

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Loop Around the Lake

Saturday September 24th - 9am from Mt. Zion Church
Loop Around the Lake route (67 miles) clockwise
Two-up upper endurance/tempo ride (18.5-19.5 mph)

Fair warning: there is a 1.4-mile dirt road section near Gray.  You don't have to ride it fast unless you want to - we'll regroup at the end.  But this route isn't possible without it so be prepared.

We'll do a brief store stop in Juliette then begin the triple drill for 12 miles.
At the turn onto Taylor Road near the end we'll start a 3.1-mile attack zone with the finish line at Rumble Road (dirt Rd on rt just before taking the left onto Klopfer).

 
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