- PRELIMINARY -
Updated 12-Aug-2022
These procedures cover:
- Check-In and Inspection
- Ride Start
- Bagdrop Locations and Controls
- Ride Finish
- Après-Finish Dinner
For inspection, you will need to show your:
- lighting system mounted on bike and backup lighting system,
- reflective gear for your bike and yourself (legbands and reflective vest or equivalent)
- drop bag - to demonstrate it falls within the 15" x 9" x 20" (or equivalent volume) limit
- brevet card,
- drop bag tags.
Cue Sheets and Maps - This year we are not providing printouts of cue sheets and route maps. Instead, you can generate cue sheet and route map from the RideWithGPS route. (This is like Perms are handled now. We won't be providing separate cue sheets and maps.) You can also use the RideWithGPS route directly, of course, in a GPS-capable device. Here you see how to access a PDF of cue sheet and/or map ("Print Map & Cue PDF") or you can produce a web page of the cue sheet ("Print Cuesheet"), which you can then print or paste into Excel or other spreadsheet app and reformat to your liking.
En Route
Atwood Sleeping - When arriving, sign in with our volunteer staff, who will record your arrival time and give you your drop bag. If you've chosen the Atwood-lodging-included option in the event fee, our volunteers will assign you a room. Let us know if there's someone you'd like to room with. Also verify that you will be staying in the same room both nights - in that case, you can leave your drop bag in the room the first night. IMPORTANT - When you are leaving Atwood for the last time (e.g., the morning after the second overnight), and when you are leaving Ft. Morgan, hand off your drop bag to the volunteers. They will not be retrieving drop bags from rooms.
Atwood and Byers Food - We will have a selection of hot and cold food - e.g., pizza, lasagne, fruit, soup, etc. If you have specific food, drink preferences (esp. energy, nutritional, sports drinks), consider packing them in your drop bag. Atwood motel rooms have microwaves, and there is also a common area for eating. Atwood and Ft. Morgan have restaurant options (early closing times in Atwood).
Atwood and Ft. Morgan Sign-In/Out – IMPORTANT - When you arrive in Atwood and Ft. Morgan, sign in on the sheet provided. Then remember also to sign out when you leave, whether your stay is half an hour or overnight. This allows us to track rider progress and post it on the website. This is in addition to having your brevet card validated by staff.
Unstaffed Checkpoints – Checkpoints noted as “Any Store” have no event staff: have any store (or other establishment) clerk note your time of passage and initial the card or, if during the night when all establishments are closed, note your own time. Or you may get a receipt, but note the time on the card. In addition, you may use a photo or GPS track as proof of passage through any checkpoint.
If you are not following the overnight stages, you may be passing through Atwood and Byers outside of the times they are staffed. If so, have your card validated at any local establishment. Please also bear in mind that you could be riding prolonged distances with no services.
Ride Finish
Event staff will be available at the Quality Inn after noon on Sunday If you finish earlier, have a hotel clerk validate your finishing time, and keep your card. If you are going to be around on Sunday, you can hand your card over to me or another official. Otherwise mail/email the card to me.
Drop bags will be available starting Sunday afternoon at the Quality Inn.
Après-Finish Dinner
We suggest rendezvous-ing at 6:30pm in front of the hotel on Sunday to head to a restaurant of your choice, hopefully in a group. Attendees pay their own way. In the past, we had made arrangements at a particular restaurant, but this business closed during the pandemic.
Bonne Route!
-jle
Ride Start
Sign in between 3am-3:30am at the Quality Inn. Deposit your drop bag in front of the hotel. As in years past, we are making provisions with the Quality Inn to store your bike container and other luggage. ([These arrangements TBD.]) PARKING: If you are not a guest at the motel and have a vehicle which you wish to park at the motel, please get their approval first, as there is limited parking which must accommodate motel guests during our event.
En Route
Atwood Sleeping - When arriving, sign in with our volunteer staff, who will record your arrival time and give you your drop bag. If you've chosen the Atwood-lodging-included option in the event fee, our volunteers will assign you a room. Let us know if there's someone you'd like to room with. Also verify that you will be staying in the same room both nights - in that case, you can leave your drop bag in the room the first night. IMPORTANT - When you are leaving Atwood for the last time (e.g., the morning after the second overnight), and when you are leaving Ft. Morgan, hand off your drop bag to the volunteers. They will not be retrieving drop bags from rooms.
Atwood and Byers Food - We will have a selection of hot and cold food - e.g., pizza, lasagne, fruit, soup, etc. If you have specific food, drink preferences (esp. energy, nutritional, sports drinks), consider packing them in your drop bag. Atwood motel rooms have microwaves, and there is also a common area for eating. Atwood and Ft. Morgan have restaurant options (early closing times in Atwood).
Atwood and Ft. Morgan Sign-In/Out – IMPORTANT - When you arrive in Atwood and Ft. Morgan, sign in on the sheet provided. Then remember also to sign out when you leave, whether your stay is half an hour or overnight. This allows us to track rider progress and post it on the website. This is in addition to having your brevet card validated by staff.
Unstaffed Checkpoints – Checkpoints noted as “Any Store” have no event staff: have any store (or other establishment) clerk note your time of passage and initial the card or, if during the night when all establishments are closed, note your own time. Or you may get a receipt, but note the time on the card. In addition, you may use a photo or GPS track as proof of passage through any checkpoint.
If you are not following the overnight stages, you may be passing through Atwood and Byers outside of the times they are staffed. If so, have your card validated at any local establishment. Please also bear in mind that you could be riding prolonged distances with no services.
Ride Finish
Event staff will be available at the Quality Inn after noon on Sunday If you finish earlier, have a hotel clerk validate your finishing time, and keep your card. If you are going to be around on Sunday, you can hand your card over to me or another official. Otherwise mail/email the card to me.
Drop bags will be available starting Sunday afternoon at the Quality Inn.
Après-Finish Dinner
We suggest rendezvous-ing at 6:30pm in front of the hotel on Sunday to head to a restaurant of your choice, hopefully in a group. Attendees pay their own way. In the past, we had made arrangements at a particular restaurant, but this business closed during the pandemic.
Bonne Route!
-jle
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