Lance ArmstrongIt's Not About The Bike
"We set out on yet another cold, raining, foggy day with a plan to ride a 100-mile loop before we returned and undertook the big finishing ascent of Beech Mountain.

We rode and rode through a steady rain, for four hours, and then five. By the time we got to the foot of Beech, I'd been on the bike for six hours, drenched. But I lifted myself up out of the saddle and propelled the bike up the incline . . ."

"As I started up the rise, I saw an eerie sight: the road still had my name painted on it."



Route 2--St. Andrews Road Loop

Mile Directions
0 Start at Beech Mountain Town Hall, turn left out of parking lot towards the ski resort.
2.33 Take the right fork on Pine Ridge Road (Beech Mountain Parkway forks left.
3.76 Right on St. Andrews Road.
5.38 There is an old cemetery on the right.
5.76 Left on Grassy Gap Loop Road (St. Andrews ends here.)
6.38 Right on Lake Road.
6.45 Left on Beech Mountain Parkway.
6.97 Right turn on to Wedling Weg Road.
7.44 Left on Ski Way Road.
* an option here to continue straight, go around Ski Way Circle and return (about 1/2 mile)
7.47 Right on Beech Mountain Parkway.
7.94 Beech Mountain Town Hall.