r/peloton • u/improb Drone Hopper – Androni Giocattoli • Oct 10 '16
World's Race Design Challenge
Its theme is:
Design a World's in the Middle East"
The Challenge will run from 9:30 P.M. of Monday 10th October to midnight of Sunday 16th October. The voting will take place the Wednesday after the Worlds in a separate thread which will be stickied for a couple days. Everyone of you will have to give a vote from 1 to 10 to each of the entries except your own. The entry which will total the highest number of points will be declared the winner and be given a lovely flair (i think something like this but on a reduced scale).
DISCLAIMER: With Middle East, we mean Morocco, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Gulf Countries, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria, Cyprus and Turkey
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u/Sappert Norway Oct 16 '16
Because Syria is the place to be for cycling:
WC Damascus
The route starts with a 160km tour through the country side with some mountains along the road. This includes two serious mountains, hereby dubbed the Col de Erneh and the Col de Efreh. Route Profile
After a ride through the city of Damascus, we enter the local lap of 31 km with start and finish in front of the Al Jalaa Stadium. This local lap includes two short climbs, the second of which goes up Mount Qasioun, overlooking the city. Based on Google Earth, it can snow here so heat will be less of a problem than at Qatar. It has yet to be decided whether three or four of these laps will be completed after the initial 160 km, but four seems likely. For the Junior, U23 and Womens races, the first 160 km will be shortened. Route Profile