Cycling Merit Badge: 15 mile ride

Our 1st scheduled Tweetsie trail ride of 15 miles will be this weekend.

o   WHAT:  Get your 15 mile rides in and be introduced to a long, steady hill before the longer rides.

o   WHEN: 

• • SATURDAY and Sunday, 2, 3SEP2023, 2:00pm

o   WHERE:  Meet at the Tweetsie trail head parking lot in JohnsonCity. 

• Tweetsie Trail Trailhead
• Alabama St, Johnson City, TN 37601

A word of warning, there are LOTS of stop signs on the trail and I expect everyone to do a full, foot down stop at each one.  The stops in Elizabethton are pretty sketchy because of the high traffic running parallel to the street.  STOP AND LOOK at traffic coming from in front and behind you too.  These are the cars that might be turning onto a side street where the trail crosses.

We’ll probably be walking our bikes through a couple of busy traffic lights too.

PLAN FOR more rides coming up:

• Tentatively: Saturdays and Sundays over the next two weeks (9, 10, 16, 17SEP2023) I’ll plan on 25 mile trips on the creeper trail.  Look for more on T48.org.  NOTE:  target the 25 mile rides in 3 hours max to be prepared for the 50 mile ride!
• Fall Break will be a great time to get some of the longer rides in.  50 mile rides available for anyone that thinks they are ready.

See you there.

chris