Weather forecast: 76 at the start, warming to 81. Only at 10% chance of rain!. Breeze changing from the SW to WNW.
Route: the Silk Sheet & Lumpy Mattress. Break at the Mulberry RC.
Distance: 30 +/- 2 miles
Pace: 17 to 19 rolling. Possibly faster on the return leg after Mulberry.
Optional sprint? On Buena Vista beginning at the Hillsborough bypass.
Ride ends. The Standard Coffee shop near the Brownwood Hotel. Eta 10.15.
The easy to remember turns
- Right. From the Bradenton RC
- Right. Charlotte
- Right. Hillsborough
- Right. Buena Vista
- Left. Highway 42
- Right. SE 73rd, by the church
- Right. SE 147, by the small church
- Right. SE 80
- Left. SE 162
- Right. SE 83
- Cross. Hwy 42, break at the Mulberry RC
- Continue south on Buena Vista
- 🚲🚲 optional sprint beginning at the Hillsborough bypass
- Right. 44a
- Left. Powell
- Right. Brownwood Blvd.
- Ride ends at the Standard coffee shop near the Brownwood Hotel 🧋☕.