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Here are the Elite rides for Saturdays in December.   To honor Bubba winter training rules (among these are: layer until you can’t bend your arms), we’ll be starting close to home and the pace will be a litter slower and the distances a little shorter.

Start times could change during the week of the ride for forecast colder or warmer conditions.  Watch this site early on the Saturday of the ride for weather related cancelations and updates.

December 6 – Roll from the Food City in St. Elmo at 10 am to ride south down Chattanooga Valley to Captain Wood Road and back.
53 miles and 2,700 feet.  No climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49895195

December 13 – Roll from Red Bank Elementary on Mountain Creek Road at 10 am to ride up to Soddy Lake and back.
43 miles and 2,300 feet. No climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53433750

December 20 – Start at 10 am from the gravel parking lot at the sculpture gardens on Polk Street to ride from Montague Park to Rock Springs, GA.
48 miles and 2300 feet. No climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49761679

December 27 – Start from the St. Elmo Food City at 10 am to take US-41 to Haletown.  Return via GA-299.
36 miles and 2,200 feet.  Half-a-climb over the toe of Aetna Mountain.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53432856

January 3 -Roll from the Patten Community Center to climb Sand Mountain.  40 miles.  Time TBD.

Here are the Elite rides for Saturdays in November.   Start times could change during the week of the ride for forecast cold conditions.  Watch this site early on the Saturday of the ride for other weather related updates.

It will be a cool morning on November 29.  Ride start time delayed until 10 am.

November 1 – There are two options.  Both start at Powell’s Crossroads City Hall at 9 am  EDT to rendezvous with the TB ‘Freddy’ ride after a climb up the west side of Sequatchie Valley.  You can climb Daus Mountain — or Freddy-traditionalists wanting to group up with TB sooner and get more miles in can climb Fredonia Mountain.  Routes split at Chapel Hill Methodist at mile 11.  Both routes include a store stop in Palmer at about mile 35.
(1) Old Men – 48 miles, 3,500 feet, climb Daus Mtn.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53153092
(2) Recent TB Graduates – 56 miles, 3,800 feet, climb Fredonia Mtn.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/52879798

November 8 – Start at Red Bank Elementary at 9 am for a clock-wise loop up to Soddy and back.  Store stop at the Circle K at mile 25.  The ride will split in Soddy so that those wanting more can climb Hot Water Road.
49 miles, 2,500 feet with no climbs
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53153791

November 15 – Roll from the Food City in St. Elmo at 9 am to ride to New England and back via Murphy Hollow.  No store stops planned.
43 Miles, 2,300 feet and no climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53153955

November 22 – We’re headed back to Sequatchie Valley to start at 9 am EST from the old Chapel Hill Methodist church to ride south to Shell Mound and back.  Store stop at mile 42 in Whitwell.  This is a second attempt to do the ride that was washed out in September.
56 miles and 2,600 feet with no climbs
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/52517473

November 28 – Need to work off some Turkey?   Join us on Friday for a spin at  1 pm for an out and back on Cash Canyon Road finishing down US 41 on the other side of Raccoon Mountain.  Start at the John A. Patten Community Center in Tiftonia.
30 miles, 2,600 feet, Climb Elder Mtn Road.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/53153473

November 29 – We’ll snake our way around some of our favorite roads in Soddy-Daisy and Sale Creek.  Start from the parking lot across from Falling Water Baptist Church at 10 am.  Store stop at the Country Mart at mile 27.
49 miles and 2,500 feet. No climbs.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51962277

December 6 –  It was an hot August day the last time we did this ride.  St. Elmo to Captain Wood Road.  53 miles. Time TBD.