50+ mile rides in the area?

You thinking routes or group rides like centuries etc?

From arlington driving out towards leesburg has some great riding, also south of potomac mills (but I dont know that area well), and over to MD both western MOCO, and western HOCO, and southern MD has plenty of open roads

 I like to search through mapmyride and pick out routes

I know there is great cycling out near The Plains and Middleburg. I have supported, but not ridden in the MS150 out there and it is really pretty. I don't think it would be hard to make a route just looking at the map. Most of the roads are two lane country roads.

I am also interested in rides other the W&OD. I get tired of stopping every mile for a road or other people. 

Middleburg to Front Royal / Winchester area is GREAT.

I also like Point of Rocks / Poolesville for quiet country roads.

Thurmont to Hagerstown for some hills.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, probably hit one of these in the next week or so. 

http://ohbike.org/events/

this was one other site is useful

Check my map on 4/4/09; this was a nice ride from Gainesville up north of Middleburg and back ... metric century.  I can send you the queue sheet if you'd like. 

Scott & Jim's Favorite Bike Rides is a great book to get ... has all the queue sheets ready to go for photocopying/exporting.

Regards,

pgd

There are a couple of places where you're on 50; one place is about 1.7mi, another is less than 1.0mi.  Snickersville Tpk was a bit busy, but in the past, when I've done Snikersville on Sunday morning, it's been very quiet.  This past Saturday was a bit more busy because we hit it on Saturday around 11-12.

All-in-all, it was a great ride.