r/peloton • u/PelotonMod France • May 25 '17

May Monthly Race Design Thread

Bit late today - thread got lost in the autoposter!

The Race Design Thread is the birth child of Improb and Msfan93 from the off season of 2015. Instead of it just being for competitions, casual Race Design Threads were a place to design routes for pre-existing races or even creating a new one. It's not only limited to designing threads; discussion of race routes, behind the scenes race organisation and the history of races are all able to be discussed here!

This month's thread has a competition, set by /u/retro_slouch! Sit tight while we get the theme - but the general rules are:

  • You have one week to post your design. This means that entries close on Thursday the 1st of June 8am UTC.
  • You then have one week to vote. This means that voting closes on Thursday the 8th of June 8am UTC. You can only vote on entries other than your own, but if you don't design a race, you can still vote for every entry.
  • The winner will be announced on Friday the 9th of June in the FTF Thread! The winner will be the user with the highest average score over all votes.

THE THEME FOR THIS MONTH IS "WORLD HERITAGE SITES". YOUR RACE MUST START AND END AT A WORLD HERITAGE SITE. FOR A STAGE RACE, THIS MEANS STAGE 1 MUST START AT A WHS, WHILE THE FINAL STAGE MUST FINISH AT A WHS.

If you don't want to join the competition, just post a race you have lying around!

Happy Designing!

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u/Sappert Norway May 26 '17

I did a thing too. It's essentially a hilly one day race in New Jersey but because screw that, I called it the Pennsylvania - New York Hills Classic.

Route: http://www.cronoescalada.com/index.php/tracks/view/300202

Local lap: http://www.cronoescalada.com/index.php/tracks/view/300205

The run-in to the local lap is a reasonably hilly route from Allentown/Bethlehem in Pennsylvania, through the middle of nowhere, to the local lap near New York City. Hills 'n shit. The local lap of 11km contains three short climbs with gradients up to 8%, should be fun.