I started out my ride and regretted within a few minutes at having overdressed … especially since I didn’t want to play the “take off / put back on” game with clothing to deal with temps.
Because I was cold, I put on most of the clothes I had brought with me. I picked Laurel because it was right on the interstate and would minimize my drive time. I was cold when I stopped for gas on the 200 mile drive from my house in Hoover, Alabama to the place I picked to start in Laurel, Mississippi. All my rides in the Southeast highlighting the target counties in Mississippi and Louisiana for this ride. Also, out west, the counties are so huge it would be relatively easy to add Arizona and New Mexico in a couple days each with a long drive in between the first ride and second ride. Bonus states might be Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arkansas, and possibly Indiana (I’ve already ridden in more than half the counties there). After completing those states, I plan to wrap up the rest of the South in roughly this order: South Carolina, Louisiana, Kentucky, and North Carolina.
#Using garmin 310xt with goldencheetah plus
My long term goal is to ride in all the counties in the South starting with my home state of Alabama (completed in just one year – 2016) plus its four immediate neighbors: Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. route creation tool I used to create a 500km route through missing counties (6 in MS and 2 in LA). Plus, when I checked the counties I am missing in neighboring Mississippi, I realized I could hit all the southern counties in a 310 mile ride if I started from Laurel, Mississippi – which would minimize my driving distance from home (200 miles) while putting me close enough to the missing counties to make it manageable to hit them all in a Festive 500 ride. I decided, almost spontaneously, that I should take advantage of this unusual opportunity to knock out the entire Festive 500 in a single ride. Click the image to read about my 2013 Festive 500 adventure in temps that bottomed out at -22.4 degF. This opened up an unusual opportunity for me to tackle the Rapha Festive 500 in one ultra long ride in the “warm weather” down here in the South instead of using every single day of the challenge to rack up the required 500 km (310.7 mi) slogging it out on a fat bike in the snow and extreme cold. Our annual winter vacation visiting family up in Northern Wisconsin/Minnesota got scrapped this year due to covid. That means I was only stopped for 46 minutes total with two gas stations and a few micro stops to take off / put on clothes or take pics. TLDR stats – look at the difference between elapsed time (20:40) and moving time (19:54).
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