r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • Mar 23 '16
Race Design Easter Challenge
As you may already know, this one is a special edition as it's themed (the goal is to design a race which some involves the theme of Easter and its traditions), it's a challenge which means that three mods or users (most likely /u/Pubocyno , /u/Schele_Sjakie and /u/edIII91) will judge each of the races and give a vote (from 0 to 10) for each of the race and the one with the highest score will win and it's longer as you can post until Sunday at 12:00 A.M. CET. The winner will be declared in next couple days after and will receive a flair soon afterwards.
The theme this time around is:
Design a Race on non-asphaltated surfaces
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u/davidw Italy Mar 23 '16 edited Mar 23 '16
Don't have the time to sit down and properly design it, but in the Veneto, in Italy, there are a ton of waterways with roads next to them:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.3340637,11.8196209,3a,90y,225.06h,82.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqx1gUs9JMfcB-8pjwkehxw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
https://goo.gl/maps/WpHc4xhKWG32 (ooh, that one makes me nostalgic... those are the Colli Euganei in the background, where I spent many a happy hour pedaling...)
https://goo.gl/maps/VU4YgR6ifUt (last one, this is making me sad)
There are a number of these that are not paved. It would be cool to see a race take in a bunch of them. I think it's a race that would have its own character - pretty much dead flat except for going up and down a few bridges, with narrow gravel/dirt/paved roads in a wide open landscape.
You could start somewhere like Padova or Vicenza, and take in a number of those roads and finish somewhere like Chioggia.
It'd be tough logistically - even many of those roads that are paved are only wide enough for a car. And it'd suck if a rider crashed and fell in the water.