TOTAL DISTANCE = 2,277 miles – TOTAL HEIGHT GAINED = 78,600 feet
That’s approximately 44 miles and 1,500 feet climbing a week.
Who can complete the distance of the famous American ‘Highway’, Route 66, during their club and training rides during 2016?
A fee of £10 will be charged for administration which will be donated to the Motor Neurone Disease Association, our chosen charity for 2016.
You can donate at https://www.justgiving.com/CaldicotChoirMNDA/
THE ROUTE
For a detailed view of the complete route – http://ridewithgps.com/routes/10917309
THE STATES
THE RIDERS
THE FINISHERS
We have come to the end of the year, the Route 66 Challenge has got off to a great start, with 13 of the now 18 intended starters having made their way on the route from Chicago. There has been a slight re-jig of teams, just keeping partners together, nothing too drastic.Happy New Year everyone, see you in California !
For anyone using Garmin Connect you can also create this challenge as a Goal (under the Plan tab). It shows you a percentage progress bar….which I haven’t decided if its a good or bad thing!!
Three riders were all out at it again today, excellent effort of 42 miles from Helena Hunt, 14 miles from Kirstie Benjamin and Tracey Eastabrook off the mark with a 17 mile ride.
More action on Route 66 today with Christine Smith getting off the mark.
And we are away – 8 riders made an effort today with Gareth Davies clocking up 49 miles followed by Helena Hunt with 35 and Robert Stallard 22. There are now 17 riders who are making the Route 66 trip.
Just 1 day to go before the start of the challenge. Riders have been drawn into four teams; yellow, red, green and blue, with an extra team motivation on which team completes the most miles and the most feet climbed over the duration of the event (Top 3 scores only counting). Team Yellow (Carolyn, Francesca, Robert and Tony G.), Team Red (Chris, Gareth, Sharon and Tony W.), Team Green (David, Helena, Steve and Tracey) and Team Blue (Diane, Kaf, Sue and the next entrant).
4 days to go, 15 interested riders, that’s £150 for charity. To keep on track you need to have completed 175 miles by the end of January.
Just 8 days to the start and we now have 14 people who have shown an interest.
Event created on Facebook – now have 12 interested.
Now we have 10 riders interested. Checking out the comments section. Intend to do a weekly blog of the progress once we get going.
Route 66 Blog started, added map and some graphics. Challenge will start for real on the 27th December.