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Sumter Landing Bicycle Club

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B Rides

Tuesday Ride From the Bradenton RC
Weather forecast:  What a great day for a ride!  66 at the start, warming to 77.  Breeze, non existent.
 
Route:  The Silk Sheet & Lumpy Mattress. Break at the Mulberry RC.
 
Distance: 30 +/- 2 miles
 
Pace: 17-19 mph rolling.  Full disclosure, the pace might pick up a bit on the return leg of the ride, after Mulberry.
 
Is there a sprint? Optional beginning at the Hillsborough bypass, ending at Powell Road.  If you're not feeling up to it then don't do it.
 
Ride ends at: The Standard Coffee shop next to the Brownwood hotel.  eta  11:10.
 
    The Silk Sheet & Lumpy Mattress
     
1 Left From the Bradenton RC
2 Right Buena Vista  Stay on BV until it ends
3 Left Hwy 42
4 Right CR SE 73rd   by the church
5 Right SE 147th
6 Right SE 80
7 Left SE   164th
8 Right  SE 83rd
9 Cross  Hwy 42
10 Break Mulberry RC
11 Continue South on Buena Vista all the way to 44A
12 Right 44A
13 Left Powell
14 Ride ends Standard Coffee Shop
     
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Sincerely,

Nat Haytcher
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