Looking for input on creating an annual community ride/event for girls and women

[OakLeaf]

DH once "arrowed" a 50 mile ride for AMC and said it was an experience he will never repeat. Three hours of spray painting.

Fifty miles in three hours??? That's SUPER fast. It goes way quicker when one person drives and another paints ... and especially when sight lines are long and shoulders wide so it's easier to find a place to pull off ... and most of all when sight lines are so long that the driver can drop off the painter where the first arrow goes and pick them up after they've walked to paint the last one at each intersection ... but still. Our teams typically get about 10 "mph."

As far as printed maps ... yes, they're an invaluable backup, but I almost never see anyone with a handlebar bag on a ride in the last 15 years (except for those who are fully loaded for touring - and even then it seems to be the very last piece of luggage people put on, after they already have front and rear panniers and a tail bag - which makes sense, since they tend to throw off steering so much), so it means pulling the map out of your pocket at every single intersection. That's for someone who either has young eyes or multifocal lenses. Me, I have to pull out the map *and* my reading glasses, and that means stopping. Nope. I don't look at a map on an organized ride unless I'm pretty sure I've already missed a turn.