Cue Sheet and GPS Files for May 4 Frederick 300km ACP Brevet
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013The cue sheet for the Frederick 300km ACP Brevet, starting at the Frederick Days Inn at 5:00AM on May 4, 2013 is now posted at in various formats at 2013_dcr_300km_frederick_cue1.zip
Parking: Riders will need to park in the Days Inn truck parking gravel lot. In the map that is linked to above, I think I have correctly identified this with a big arrow and the letter “P”. The entrance is off of Grove Rd just a little down from the Days Inn. Look for a sign that says Days Inn Truck Parking. Park at the back of the lot.
Registration will be in the breakfast area of the Days Inn starting at 4am. This is near the green exclamation park on the map.
Lights and reflective gear are required for this ride so when you come to registration please be sure to bring your reflective gear and ensure that you have the required front and rear lights mounted on your bicycle. In addition to bike inspection the morning of the event, there will also be a bike inspection available Friday night from 8pm to 9pm.
The link to the GPS files is posted below. But please read this information before downloading them. Always get a copy of the final cue sheet. That final cue sheet contains the official route, so in case there is a conflict with the GPS file, you should resolve the conflict in favor of the cue sheet. Use the GPS as a handy-dandy adjunct. Keep your wits about you, as the GPS cannot notify you of road hazards — it is up to you to ride safely.We strongly recommend that you set your GPS to the settings below. We cannot guarantee that these will keep you on the official route, but if you have your GPS set some other way, it is entirely possible that it will take you off route, possibly onto unsafe roads. Go to the Setup->Routing page and set as follows:
Guidance Method: Follow Road
Follow Road Method: Shortest Distance
Next Turn Pop-Up: On
Follow Road Options:
Off Route Recalculation: Prompted
Calculation Method: Best Route
Calculate Routes for: Car/Motorcycle
Avoid: (set to none – the route itself should control this)
By the way … make sure that your GPS either has maps already downloaded, or select the relevant maps around the routes. The GPS files are posted at 2013_dcr_300km_frederick_gps.zip.
A RidewithGPS version that may be useful for people using certain Garmin Edge GPS’s and/or other GPS’s is posted here. NOTE: This should be considered highly experimental. There is a fair amount of info at RWGPS’s website about which format to download for the type of GPS that you have. Note that if you download a track to your GPS then there may be a limit to the number of points that your GPS can accept: Mine can only handle 500 points. I do not have any of these types of GPS’s so no way to experiment. Please report back on your experience if you download something from RWGPS. Let me know the type of GPS you have and the type of format that you downloaded and how well it worked for you.