Thought I'd start up a new thread for Tour di Stupid Lite planning to keep andtckrtoo's original thread sort of on topic.
Here's a little background on Mel's original Tour di Stupid. Perhaps more than you need to know.
Here's the proposed "lite" route on Bikely:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path...di-Stupid-Lite
We'll start at the Fremont BART station, head through Fremont & Milpitas to San Jose, up & over Mt. Hamilton, down the backside of Mt. Hamilton and over Mines Road into Livermore, then over to the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station where we'll take BART back to Fremont.
Bikely shows about 96 miles and around 7200 ft of climbing. But if you use a Garmin Edge GPS, it'll probably show closer to 9000 feet.
If anyone is not up to this much of a ride but doesn't want to miss out on the fun, perhaps we could have a SAG driver?
Another possibility is for a couple of people to share SAG duties, driving for a while and then trading off with someone else and riding for a while.
(im)possible dates (from the previous thread):
- jobob can't make it the weekend of 11/1-2 (neice's wedding in Western MA), any other weekend is OK.
- dachshund's unavailable dates are 10/25 and 11/8.
- andtckrtoo can't make it 10/19
- V is racing 11/1 and would like to do her 200K on 11/8
Based on the above, I suggest either Sun 10/26, Sat 11/15 or Sun 11/16.
What say the rest of you?