I am going to be in Asheville, NC for a few days in March. Anyone have advice on training routes? Anything up to 100 miles.
I’m actually heading there as well to train and hang out with old friends. There is also an open water lake im hitting up. Shoot me a pm if you want to meet up and get some rides in.
take the blue ridge parkway either direction out of town and you will be treated to some amazing views and climbs with great road surfaces.
google pisgah and ride it in that direction.
Great climbs either direction from town, but beware of parkway closures that time of year. Both north & south climb pretty high pretty fast (for the South, anyway). And if you bypass the road closed signs, you get wonderfully quiet rides along with rocks & ice in the road. It’s fun.
yeah after about a few miles the road is closed to cars, you’ll have the whole thing to yourself.
What is the lake temperature in March? I can’t imagine it being very warm, especially if it gets snow runoff. I’m looking to do something similar in Blue Ridge, GA at the end of March. Is there any place you can look up the lake temperatures?
So even if it’s closed you can still ride on it??
Yeah, they’re usually just those swing closed metal gates which stop cars from getting on the road. You can very easily walk your bike around them.
Signs have gone up in the last year posting bike are illegal when gates are closed. Take your chances but you can get a ticket. Parkway out of asheville is nothing but up in both directions, I would get in on a local group ride or PM me when u are here a I might be free.