January 18 Audax Start Location: Olongapo City Hall

12/14/2019 | Carmela Pearson

The upcoming Audax rides on January 18, 2020 will again have to start at the Olongapo City Hall (just like last December 7, 2019).  This is again decided upon to avoid conflict with the ASEAN Paralympic Games happening inside the Subic Bay Freeport Zone during the same day.  So what does this mean during the Audax weekend?

Onsite Registration and Brevet Card Collection (by those who registered in advance) on January 17, 4-8pm will still be at Mango Valley 1.  Ride finish and post-ride meals on January 18 will still be at Mango Valley 1.  The only thing that really changed is the venue in the morning of January 18 - Olongapo City Hall, more specifically: 

1) onsite and brevet card collection from 2:30-4am

2) start of the ride at 4am

GUIDELINES:

1) You may still park your vehicles at Mango Valley and just cycle to Olongapo City Hall.  It is just less than 3km away from Mango Valley 1.  Finish is still at Mango Valley 1 so it makes sense to park your car in the hotel premises.  Please see below location map:

2) If you have a support vehicle following you in the ride, please advise your driver to park at the public market (just across the City Hall and along the route so as not to impede traffic/block the roads.  It might be tight at the start location so let's all be sensitive and considerate of other motorists and cyclists.   We will have some police advising drivers not to park inside the City Hall premises.  The city hall was nice enough to allow us to start our ride so let's be mindful and considerate at all times. Advise your drivers to do leap frogging instead of direct follow.  I will be posting another SAG reminder in the next few days. 

3) From the Olongapo City Hall, just head to the direction of the RH5 National Highway also called the Olongapo-Bugallon Road.  You may still use the cue sheet posted in the ride information page but with the minor change of the start location.  To avoid confusion, a David's Salon van will be leading the start of the peloton for the first few kilometres until we hit this highway to ensure nobody gets lost.  This is pretty straightforward and you can refer to the google map photo below:

Lastly, randonneurs are known to be flexible and adaptable to change.  This is just a minor hiccup for the ride on January 18 and we would like to ask for everybody's cooperation on this one.  We will be starting at Mango Valley again in the succeeding Audax rides in this region.  Audax Randonneurs Philippines has tried our best to find a good location for the start and we think that changing the start venue is better than changing the date of the ride.  Please bear with us and share this information to those who will be joining us in the first Audax rides of the 2020 Calendar Year.  Thank you! :)