Apr 25, 09:44 AM by Steve | New Time Trial Course
Posted in Cycling |The “Monday Night Time Trial” course has been changed to address some concerns over safety and traffic issues. I rode the course this morning to map it out for everyone to see. You can see my recording of the new course on MotionBased, and the old course as well for reference.
Here is the updated course description from Don Flanigan:
“The course is still 10 miles. It begins at the parking lot at Stow Canyon park on Los Caneros Road. We proceed north to Cathedral Oaks and turn right heading East for 1.3 miles and do a turnaround in the left hand turn lane at Santa Margarita Road. This is the last street just before Fairview where the median strip begins. We proceed West, then up and down Glen Annie Road . The top is 5.4 miles from the start. We then continue up the Dos Pueblos hill and proceed to the turnaround at the indicator for a “stop sign ahead”. This is the turnaround which is marked with a circle. It is approximately 20 meters short of the actual stop sign. We then proceed East for approximately 1.3 miles to the finish. Make a right turn at the Dos Pueblos traffic light and finish one block further at the marked finish line. This is marked on the right and the left side of the road. This is just at the entrance to the Dos Pueblos high school parking lot. We will then join together in the parking lot at Dos Pueblos.”
And this from Tom Anhalt to give some background for the change:
“After the last Monday Night TT, there were some discussions amongst various participants about possible changes to the course to make it somewhat safer. In particular, it was desirable to eliminate the 180 turnaround at the top of DP hill (along with having to deal with the stop light at DP after making the turn) and the right turn at the bottom of DP hill onto Glen Annie followed by the 180 turn shortly down that street. These parts tend to be problematic due to potential “interference” from traffic in those spots. There were additional concerns about the gatherings of people in the road at the current start and finish points along Cathedral Oaks.I forwarded some suggestions for course mods to Don Flanigan last week and he took off and “ran with it” :-) In fact, he liked it so much he’s already got the new course markings painted on the streets!
He really wanted to keep it a full 10 miles, which is why the start is along Los Carneros road. The compromise is that it requires a turnaround on Cathedral Oaks near the Jr. High, but that is a relatively wide open area and hopefully won’t be an issue. If the start had been kept at the current place, then the course would have needed to be shortened to ~9 miles.
He wants to give it a go for the next event. So, please forward the info about the changed course to all interested parties. I’m thinking of making a course “map” with mapmyride or something and will forward that to you guys when it’s done.
One important note to avoid confusion: Below, Don talks about the start being at the parking lot of “Stow Canyon Park”. This is not Stow Park on La Patera street. It’s the lot by the train depot, the fire station, and Stow House on Los Carneros road.”
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