WhiteGiant
Maximum Pace
- Nov 4, 2006
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This following map is the "worst case scenario!"
http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/japan/atsugi/1140417049
It's a start from Atsugi, straight down Rte.246 until the start of the climb up Rte.710 as far as possible, then possibly having to come back down to 246 again.
Continuing on (along Rte.246) to Rte.147 and then climbing up again - "worst case scenario"; having to come back down that as well, and then ride all the way back to Hon-Atsugi station.... Which is still a century-ride, but...
Normally, someone like Aaron (Pucci) would have been up there several years before us to check things out, but this time, I reckon we're looking at "virgin-roads" here.
Sometimes, that can mean "nightmare-ish" rides for us all - newbies, semi-experienced, and others just visiting the area for the first time!
BUT, sometimes it can mean finding one of the nicest cycling roads in the whole country just by chance - possibly a road that everyone's forgotten about except for those who wish to ride on it.
Back to to the worst-case-scenario map - I've drawn it as though we could never make it through, and would have to double-back. However the possibility of these roads (both of them) being extremely good for cyclist still remains, so... I think we owe it to ourselves to clip-in, head out there, and check out these roads for what they really are!
Whaddya think?
T
http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/japan/atsugi/1140417049
It's a start from Atsugi, straight down Rte.246 until the start of the climb up Rte.710 as far as possible, then possibly having to come back down to 246 again.
Continuing on (along Rte.246) to Rte.147 and then climbing up again - "worst case scenario"; having to come back down that as well, and then ride all the way back to Hon-Atsugi station.... Which is still a century-ride, but...
Normally, someone like Aaron (Pucci) would have been up there several years before us to check things out, but this time, I reckon we're looking at "virgin-roads" here.
Sometimes, that can mean "nightmare-ish" rides for us all - newbies, semi-experienced, and others just visiting the area for the first time!
BUT, sometimes it can mean finding one of the nicest cycling roads in the whole country just by chance - possibly a road that everyone's forgotten about except for those who wish to ride on it.
Back to to the worst-case-scenario map - I've drawn it as though we could never make it through, and would have to double-back. However the possibility of these roads (both of them) being extremely good for cyclist still remains, so... I think we owe it to ourselves to clip-in, head out there, and check out these roads for what they really are!
Whaddya think?
T