24HR Urban Relay - Route Proposal from Charlie

and i'll be skipping over to Peachtree by Harris some times for some variety and a few white lights.

For hard work and follow through.

I'll ride the route later today. Too bad folks aren't comfortable in CBH because its very nice at night, alittle bit of action but not enough to be an obstacle.

Also there's a new mexican place (food!) over there we should check out.

if my team members don't mind. bummer

As I said Monday night, I like W P'tree. And Pershing Point is harder to miss than 17th. *wink*

Should we have another checkpoint on P'tree to keep people on P'tree not Juniper? Or is that an acceptable alternate?

I would like the turn through Little 5 to be longer and more important since it means that we can't gain momentum for the hill up to Johnny's by going down Highland. It just feels too short & pointless. I don't understand why people are worried about Candler Park. It may be dark, but it's a good neighborhood, and cyclists will be coming along behind you. Did people find the area to be a safety problem last year?

I like this route, should be fast, fun and have enough options to keep people interested.

I like W. Peachtree. During winter it can have some pretty challenging wind, which is an intersting factor to add. It is also less flat that P'tree, and quite honestly, the pavement on P'tree sucks.

6 checkpoints -->very nice

If anyone has questions about checkpoint #4 - 10th and piedmont, we decided that instead of 10th and peachtree b/c it's less obvious for people/police to mess with, it's not on the corner of a federal bank, and there's a stoplight there anyway. cool?

+1000, especially for those non-americans that do not want to be anywhere near anything that can vaguely be associated with terrorism.

good call on the marietta and spring/w peachtree ways. those should be a blast.

i do not support this dangerous new trend of +1'ing everything though.

Looks good. +1

like the route, good decision on piedmont stop, the federal police get itchy about lots of stuff, i'm sure it's pretty obvious to people to put all hole punch check point dealies on the inside/right side of traffic unless people just want to make people do a cross traffic manouver for urban reality type scenario, specifically at virginia/highland make sure that thing is on the right side of the light bypass, unless you're just tryin to get nuts, and in my opinion this arangement of checkpoints is going to keep me at least ninety five percent on suggested route for speed reasons, so i can't see it getting much better, there are very few time saving cut throughs besides the highland to whatever to seminole little five culdesac cut through because honestly thats way faster and i'm sure that lots of people are going to do it that way unless you put the checkpoint up north of that starbucks or something and even then i'd take ponce instead of freedom parkway for speed which if you want to keep people on freedom parkway god damn it the only way to really do it would be to have the checkpoint on the right side of freedom parkway three fourths down the road between highland and moreland that way taking ponce wouldn't make sense but i'd still haul ass the other way on freedom down to highland and take highland to finish point, or you could put the check point at the end of freedom parkway where it hits moreland and just assume that people would turn back around and do a hairpin type monaco turnaround which could be fun, but yeah thats the stop that i find most likely to see time saving/stretching of the rules/route

someone want to make a flyerish version of this map? Last year we had a huuuge poster on the wall of E97 outside, and we'll need it on spoke cards and i've gotten some emails to 24@fm asking about it.

not sure about the flyer or spokecard version, but i was planning on sneaking a huuuge print off of the plotter at work. should be ~4'/4'. this could be used onsite on the wall of johnny's.

monday may be my last chance to sneak a plot. the plotter is in the alpharetta office and i really try to avoid that place... if you can send me the file the way you want it, i'll print it.

map of the proposed route.

we now have a large print (~3.5' x 3.5') of this which i just now threw together. it is not fancy but it is large enough to be seen from across the check-in table and be a little pixelated on the curvy roads and make you feel a little crosseyed when you get too close to it. unfortunately i have to come back up to this forsaken place a couple more times this week.... so if you hate this map and have a better one to put through the plotter then send it on over.