yay! a picture!
Donna said yesterday was fun but long and with the temps changing and the wind picking up, everyone was suffering from pollen and dust. She got to chat with Amanda Carey, the current leader of the Women's GC, which she enjoyed. She admitted this morning she's feeling a little rough around the edges--but only two days to go! Temps today are supposed to be in the mid-70s, which should help with some fast riding.
Today's stage is pretty awesome and I wish I was riding it too. Trails and roads I rode in college all in a big epic loop. Donna and Jill have 3.5 hours to go 26 miles to make the cutoff and those 26 miles include a short hike-a-bike, long trail downhill, the fireroad climb the whole way up the backside of Bear Meadows Road (multiple miles), the notoriously rocky John Wert Path (which I tried to ride once in college on a rigid 26"-wheeled bike with toe cages and gave up), another fireroad climb back to Bear Meadows, then down super fun Lonberger Path (which we also called Magic Carpet Ride) and Three Bridges to another road climb back again to Bear Meadows to the CP. Once they get through the cutoff at the CP, they get several miles of great ridgetop riding on the Tussey Mtn Trail, fun singletrack descent and then mostly road to the finish.
The course map:
The elevation profile (eep!):
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As you see now, this stage was named after the "queens" that rode here in college. Back then, they just called it "experimentation".
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