Re: cheat_training_group How long is it?

Here is the Downriver Race Map

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Howard

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From: JohnM <munnell13@gmail.com>
To: upper_yough_training_group <upper_yough_training_group@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 2:49 pm
Subject: cheat_training_group How long is it?

For those of you new to Cheat training, here is a little info about why you may be a bit sore on Sunday.

Tom calls it the "slow, grinding death". The masochists among us just call it "Sandy to Sycamore". (Happens to be the normal course for the 50+ year old Potomac Downriver Race in May, too!)

As you paddle, you are pretty much thinking "Are we #*%#ing there yet?" And when you get to one of the usual break points, you wonder 'How long was that?" and "How much further?" With the help of Google maps, here's an approximation of the distances from S-Turn to the Sycamore Island inlet.

S-Turn             .00 miles
Maryland Chute    1.48 miles
Skull Island      1.71 miles
Anglers           1.87 miles
Yellow Falls      3.05 miles
Stubblefield      3.98 miles
I495 Bridge       4.84 miles
Sycamore Island   7.38 miles

As another way of thinking about it, the traditional stops are around Anglers, the I495 Bridge and Sycamore...which makes the first leg about 2 miles, the second leg about 3 miles and the last about 2.5 miles.

See --- it's not really that far. Just wait until you do the attain! Really.

JOHN

P.S, The Cheat is almost 10 miles --- but has enough current at most levels to seem faster than the Potomac.

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