The 9th Annual ‘Worst Day of the Year Ride’ will be taking place on Sunday, February 14th. The fundraiser, to benefit the Community Cycling Center’s safety education programs for low income children and adults, will start and end at the Lucky Lab Brewpub at 915 SE Hawthorne.
The Worst Day of the Year Ride will first be going into Northwest Portland to the NW Johnson REI store then back over the Broadway Bridge into Northeast Portland up to the Community Cycling Center on NE Alberta St, along the Alameda Ridge and over to the NE Sandy Bike Gallery store and returning to SE Portland for a meal of hot soup and fresh-made focaccia bread.
The 40 mile course option adds a loop from REI in NW Portland out to the Hillsboro REI store at Streets of Tanasbourne and comes back to Portland a new way this year
For more info on route specifics, please go to this link on our website to download the maps: http://www.worstdayride.com/portland/routes.html
The coordinators are hoping for approximately 2,000 riders to participate, most (over 2/3) will ride the shorter, urban course within Portland. They will release the riders at the start in waves over 2 hours to ensure they will be spread out on course and will have course marshals in place at important intersections to ensure safety and we will also have motorcycle escorts on the course.
Please see the map link for affected streets and neighborhood areas.
The event begins at 8:00 am, comes back to the Lucky Lab by 11:00am and by 3:00pm will be cleaned up and broken down.
There will be a street closure for the start/finish line on SE Madison between 9th and 10th and on SE 9th between Hawthorne and Main from 5 am to 5 pm where there will be a drum corps at 10am and amplified music at controlled levels during the event hours.
Also at the SE Lucky Lab start/finish location we will have tents in the street and we will have beer stations there and serve Laughing Planet soups to event participants. There will be a small street closure for the REI rest stop on NW Kearney between NW 15th and NW 16th from 8am to 2:00 pm.
There will also be a small street closure for the Community Cycling Center rest stop from 8am to 2pm on NE 17th between NE Alberta St and NE Wygant St.
These are the only street closures for this ride – all participants receive heavy messaging in the website, event flyers, emails, and at the ride start regarding respectful shared road/path usage and they commit to abide by this as ride participants in their rider registration.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at 503/459-4508, Jensi@GoodSportPromotion.com.
Jensi Albright
Worst Day of the Year Ride
www.WorstDayRide.com
Good Sport Promotion
503/459-4508
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