Gran Fondo Cycles, Nashville, TN

Monday (Labor Day), September 4th

8:30 AM Hillsboro Elementary School Parking Lot,
5412 Pinewood Road, Leiper's Fork, TN 37064

We are going to try and recreate the fun of last year's epic Labor Day ride by running the same route.

The route roundtrip from the Hillsboro School (8:30 start) will be 55 miles and we've got some great stuff in here - a line up of our favorite roads - Milton Fox, South Lick Creek, Pigg Schoolhouse, and Mahon. There will be a water stop at Mr. Fly's store about 20 miles in. This is a fantastic loop. Pigg Schoolhouse is steep; it will separate the men from the boys and the girls from the women, but it's epic and fun and you'll laugh about this for a long time. Consider it training for our gran fondo; it will have this road in the route.

I'll post in a Map My Ride map below, but be careful with these. They sometimes leave out key info in their route sheets... The excel spreadsheet might be closer to correct, but no promises.

In addition, if you are like some people we know and never drive your car to ride your bike, join a loose collection of riders at the Model Airplane Field parking lot at 7:30 am and pedal out to Leiper's Fork for the 8:30 am start. If you aren't in for an 85 mile day, there are always some people cutting it short to ride back in with you.

Labor Day 2010.xls

Cue sheet above in Excel, picture below (Map My Ride), text copied in below...

Go	Action	Road	At
	Start	Hillsboro Elementary Sch	0.0
0.0	Turn Left	SR 46	0.0
0.2	Turn Right	Leipers Creek Rd	0.2
1.5	Turn Right	Garrison Rd	1.6
3.8	Stay straight at 4 way	Name change - Greenbriar Rd	5.4
2.8	Turn Left	Milton Fox	8.3
0.7	Turn Right	South Lick Creek	9.0
1.0	Turn Left	Doug Thompson Rd	10.0
1.8	Turn Right	Old Natchez Trce (not marked)	11.8
4.5	Turn Left	Highway 7	16.3
1.6	Turn Left	STORE STOP - Mr. Fly's	17.9
	Exit Store Left	Continue on Highway 7	17.9
6.0	Turn Right	Snow Creek or H 247	23.9
1.0	Turn Left	Pigg Schoolhouse Road	24.9
2.5	Turn Right	Highway 7	27.4
2.6	Turn Left	Knob Creek	30.0
3.5	Turn Right	Theta Pike	33.5
		Sign says Gene Fitzgerald	33.5
		Name changes to Mahon	33.5
3.1	Turn Left	Carter's Creek	36.6
5.9	Turn Left	Les Robinson (TN 247)	42.5
0.8	Turn Right	Fairview	43.2
3.2	Turn Left	Mobley's Cut	46.4
1.6	Turn Right	Leipers Creek Rd	48.0
5.6	Turn Left	SR 46 (Pinewood Rd)	53.6
0.2	Turn Right	Hillsboro Sch	53.7

The Gran Fondo Labor Day Group Ride was a perfect day on the bike if you enjoy great friends, beautiful roads, sunshine, smiles and 50 to 80 miles of good riding. This video with stills captures a small amount of the fun. Beginning at the school in Leipers Fork, Tn, we head south to Fly, Tn and then up Highway 7 to find the uber category climb in Maury County, Pigg Schoolhouse Road. From there, it was almost all downhill until we returned home. Thanks to all our friends for making it a great gran fondo day!

Check out the fun in yet another Gran Fondo youtube video:

Labor Day - Let's Work on the Bike!

Labor Day Ride

Last Year's Group Ride Report