Barrington Loop Bike Route

Map My Ride is an awesome website that allows cyclists to map and save their rides. It calculates distance and elevation to tailor your training, which is crucial to targeting your scheduled workouts. The interactive mapping system is a little tricky, and I'm still learning how to use it, but it's worth the extra time to get the route, study the maps, and train to specific elevations. I have a headache the size of Blackhawk Trail right now from re-routing this bad boy 10 times, but basically it's a looped ride. After the initial trek to the intersection of River Road and IL-62 (Algonquin Rd), I'm going back east to Haeger's Bend and the Spring Creek-Ridge/N. River/Plumtree/Haeger's loop a few times. Total distance will be approximately 50 miles. I think it might be cold and even rainy but I'm hitting it regardless. This will also be the first time I ride solo on a long ride, which is a little scary. It shouldn't be too bad because I know the route (3rd time out here now) and there are a lot of cyclists and runners training this area. Fingers crossed!