Winter Bike League
WBL # 5 : // Wednesday, 1 January 2025
What: The Reeves-Young adies Day Claissque (3.5 hours / 67 miles)
When: 1 January (Wednesday)
Where: The HUB (Athens at 5 Points besides Jittery Joes and Independent Bakery) *[Please do not leave car in HUB parking lot. Park on surface street nearby.]
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49348742
Length: 67 miles (3.5 hours)
Time: 10 AM (*window open)
Points: 4 (1 per hour - must sign in here: https://forms.gle/e2qFumEzxqSq9TaH7
Exit Route: Milledge Simonton Briddge > Watkinsville
Store Stop: The River Store (Mile 30)
Pee Break @ 20 miles
Attack Zone (5 miles): Opens at mile 51.5 when the pack turns right on Oliver Bridge Road. Stay straight for 3 miles. Continue straight on to McRee’s Mill after the 4 way stop. Finish line is 2 miles ahead at WBL line in the road.
Sprints:LADIES ONLY SPRINT SPOSORED BY REEVES YOUNG
- 10 pts / $100 + DA BOX
- 8 pts. / $75
- 6 pt / $50
- 4 pts / $25
- 2 pts / $25
- 1 pt
WBL # 6 // Saturday, 4 January 2025
What: The First American Bank March to Madison (4 hours / 80 miles)
When: 4 January (Saturday)
Where: The HUB (Athens at 5 Points besides Jittery Joes and Independent Bakery) *[Please do not leave car in HUB parking lot. Park on surface street nearby.]
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49348742
Length: 83 miles (4 hours)
Time: 10 AM (*window open)
Points: 4 (1 per hour - must sign in here: https://forms.gle/e2qFumEzxqSq9TaH7
Exit Route: Milledge > Simonton Bridge > Bishop
Store Stop: The River Store (Mile 45)
Pee Break @ 22 miles // 60 miles
Intermediate Sprints:
**Jackie Crowell Women's Sprint (mile 10). 1 mile sprint to the Bishop City Limit Sign.
- 3 pts. / $25
- 2 pts.
- 1 pts.
**Non Pro: Oconee County Sign Mile 57 (sponsored by Choco Pronto). Opens at mile 55. Sprint to Oconee County Sign.
- 3 pts. / Bag of Beans from Choco Pronto
- 2 pts
- 1 pt
** PRO: "Flat" Rock Hill Grind (mile 70) inside the final attack zone. WBL line in the road on top of Flat Rock Loop Road (sponsored by Choco Pronto)
- 3 pts. / $25 + Bag of Beans from Choco Pronto
- 2 pts
- 1 pt
Attack Zone (8 miles): Extended Flat Rock Attack Zone (8 miles). Opens at mile 64 when the group turns right on Wire Bridge. Ride straight for two miles. Turn right on Oliver Bridge Road- go two miles. Turn right on Flat Rock Loop go two miles (pro sprint at WBL line on the road at the top of hill). Turn right on Mcrees Mill Road for 1.5 miles. WBL sign in the road just before the windmill on the right.
Wait at picnic tables to regroup and ride back to the Hub.
SHORT CUT***cut 1 mile off of attack zone by staying on Oliver Bridge Road and not turning on Flat Rock Loop***
Pro Final Sprint Sponsored by First American Bank
- 10 pts / $100 + DA BOX
- 8 pts. / $75
- 6 pt / $25
- 4 pts
- 2 pts
- 1 pt
Ladies Jackie Crowell Finish
- 10 pts / $50
- 8 pts. / $30
- 6 pt / $20
- 4 pts
- 2 pts
Non Pro Finish Sponsored by Crowe Law Firm
- 10 pts / $25
- 8 pts. / $25
- 6 pt / $25
- 4 pts
- 2 pts
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WBL #3 December 21, 2024: The Flickr Theater Ride to Nowhere
[80 miles, 4 hours, 21.2 mph average]
Total WBL Season Distance: 249 mules
The Tradition. Rules. Societal Norms. Hard Labor Creek. Cesarian Creek. Bear Creek. Social Circle. Good Hope. Bostwick. High Shoals. Cotton farms. Marisa Tomei. Joe Pesci. (My Cousin Vincent). Gratis. Cocaine Dogs.
Now frankly speaking, there is often nothing much new about something so old. The previous themes and tropes have all been explored. Those ZEALOTS know the history. They know the ways. The ways often wander. They meander. They go nowhere. Sometimes nowhere is a place. Sometimes nowhere is the destination. Sometimes the destination is simply to go nowhere for these times we often end up right back where we started from. That is often 5 points. Hopefully sometime soon: 6 points, but we are not there yet. 7 points is possible, but again the traffic is horrendous. So again, we digress back to Nowhere. Or now here? Did the space simply get forgotten or was it initially left out for space constraints. Oh, we’ve lost our way. Thankfully the moon, stars, and Hollywood lights are there to guide us back to the most Classic of Cities. The city of the gods. Lowercase of course.
Now back to that fateful 3rd ride of this OTHER SEASON. The ride to nowhere. Where is nowhere? It is precisely where we left it. It lays between the picked cotton fields outside Bostwick. Just past the misty High Shoals. But before that most Social of Circles. Past the Hardest Labor Creek. Where turning around we see the most Good Hope imaginable. Before finally avoiding the Bears and their creek reservoir. And cresting the heights of Forest Heights into the most Normal of Towns. Cruising along the edge of the Mills and finally coasting back into 5 points and The HUB. Thank you all again for taking this meandering ride to Nowhere with us as we need all of us to form what we are (whatever that might be now or will be in the future).
-Humble
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