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2008-08-23 1:32 PM

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Subject: IMKY bike course

Just got this from a friend of mine that rode the bike course a few weeks ago.

0-8 miles River Rd - flat & smooth
8-9 Wolf Pen Branch - first significant hills
9-18 Rt 42 - more gradual, but longer hills
18-28 Rt 1694 out and back - flat then great descent into the valley (42 mph), but biggest climb out. Then you do a u-turn and head back to Rt 42. The return up hill out of the valley is harder than the first.
28-31 Rt 42 - more gradual hills
31-36 Rt 393 - a couple significant hills
36-43 Rt 146 - not too hilly until the end, a downhill just before Ballard School Rd (fast turn)
43-46 Ballard School Rd - narrow rd, steep short hills, toughest section
46-47 Sligo Rd - few medium hills
47-50 L'Spirit Rd - few medium hills
50-51 Rt 153 - fairly flat
51-62 Rt 42 - more gradual, but longer hills, a little rough pavement until Rt 393
62-93 Rt 393...do another loop back to Rt 42
93-112 Rt 42 back to Wolf Pen Branch & River Rd, there are more downhills than uphills the last 30 miles, I was able to pick up the pace quite a bit

good luck to all doing IMKY!


2008-08-23 8:39 PM
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Subject: RE: IMKY bike course
Wolf Pen Branch is not on the course.....this "change" versus 2007 was undone when bridge construction on River Rd. was delayed.....flats will continue until Rt. 42, then you will encounter the first hills...
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