Anyone want to ride to Gettysburg this weekend?

[sethpo]

Feeling the itch for a long ride and I’ve been wanting to get up to G-burg and check out some history and such. I’m thinking Sunday. The route I mapped out is about 120 miles and I’m thinking Sunday but I’m open on all fronts.

This would obviously be an all day trek done at a touring pace. Weather looks very promising this weekend.

Anyone up for a little adventure?

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[KLizotte]

My RideWithGPS routing can be found here. Only pitstops available are Emmitsburg, Fairfield, and Gettysburg Nat’l Park. Nothing between Gettysburg and Thurmont on the route I traveled. Other routes that are popular in the area can be found here and here but I haven’t done them yet.

[vvill]

@creadinger 86252 wrote:

Whhhhaaaaaaaaatttt??? Were you sick with plague or something? Was it the cold weather? Surely a featherweight jackrabbit like yourself could handle a touring pace around Gettysburg on a normal day.

I had a moderate case of indigestion due to overeating the night before and there was quite a bit of headwind to be fair – but otherwise I had no excuses. Just a big bonk after not really being able to eat from about mile… 30?. <12mph for the last 6 miles/30 mins of the ride - and that was with others coming back to help pull me.

[sethpo]

So it turns out I should have checked w/ my wife first (duh!). There’s a neighborhood BBQ on Sunday and since it was going to be a solo ride I’m just going to postpone. But this one is still on my list for June/July so if anyone who couldn’t do it this weekend and really does want to, holler and we’ll figure something out. But as you can see I’m not that good at planning this stuff too far in advance so good luck to us all.

[consularrider]

June will be tough with three very busy weekends, maybe a 100°+ day in July will be just the ticket?

[Brendan von Buckingham]

With a couple weeks lead time, I would love to do this. Sundays better than Saturdays. With a wife and two young boys, a one-way ride where I meet up with my car-tripping family in Gettysburg would work too. It’s the Wuss Plan in terms of miles, but makes for a more rational proposal on the home-front.

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