3 Route Options now available, details below.
Organiser: Martin Milner
E-Mail: martin.milner at gmail.com
Entry Fee: €5 by PayPal to paypal@audaxireland.org
This route was created for the 2020 pandemic county lockdown on roads entirely inside the County Meath boundary.
It takes an anti-clockwise route from Trim towards the county borders with Dublin, Louth, Monaghan, Cavan and Westmeath before returning to Trim. It uses many quiet back roads with surfaces generally good and little traffic. There are no difficult climbs and the last 45k is slightly downhill for an easy finish. The official start is the Trim Retail Park on the Navan Road but it could be joined at any point and could be reversed. There is a car park by the start behind Supermacs and a Circle K-Londis for stocking up on last minute supplies before heading off.
The route starts out towards Navan before taking a right for Kilmessan where you pass over the River Boyne at Mary Lavin’s Bective Bridge.
The first short climb is at Bellewstown 33k before a left turn down by the race course. Be careful going down the steep descent and then on to Duleek for the first control.
After Duleek there is a stretch along the Boyne passing the Brú na Bóinne visitor centre at Newgrange. The next town is Slane where you should stock up on food because there are no shops until we reach Moynalty, famous for the Steam Threshing Museum and formerly the finish of the Race Around Ireland. Oldcastle is the final control and a chance for food before the final 50k. Take the Castlepollard Road out from Oldcastle until a left at Ballany Cross. This road takes you alongside the picturesque Lough Bane that divides Meath from Westmeath. The fast run in takes you through Athboy and Kildalkey before returning to Trim.
RidewithGPS Map https://ridewithgps.com/routes/32897565
The main places visited and distances are :-
Trim 0
Kilmessan 10
Duleek 44 (Control)
Newgrange Visitor Centre 51
Slane 59
Moynalty 122
Oldcastle 148 (Control)
Millbrook 150
Athboy 182
Kildalkey 192
Trim 203
ADDITIONAL ROUTES
2 additional routes have been added for the Meath 200. These can be ridden as an alternative to the main route above. For either of these routes please submit GPX track or Strava, plus 2 selfies and/or 2 receipts.
Meath 200 Alternative Route
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34388346
Meath 200 Royal Canal Greenway (with compacted gravel surface on the 30km Greenway section)
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/35614928
Submit proof from the 2 controls or a gps track to:
martin.milner at gmail.com
See also
- 1.5 Loughs winter permanent.
- Blackwater 200 (Permanent)
- Coastal Classique 200 Permanent
- Cósta na Mara 200 (Permanent)
- Crumbling Rocks 200 Permanent
- East Wicklow 200 (Permanent only)
- Galway Gallop 200 Permanent
- Garristown 200 Permanent
- North Leinster Riviera 200 Permanent
- Ran out of Road 600
- The Great Lake Spin
- West Wicklow 200 Permanent
- Antrim 200 Permanent
- Ardattin 200-Wicklow Permanent
- Canals & Greenways 300 of Leinster (permanent)
- Carlow Covid 200 Permanent
- Cill Mhantain 200 Permanent
- Donegal 200 Permanent
- Down 200 Permanent
- Dublin County Border 200 Permanent
- East Coast 200 Permanent
- Effin 200 Permanent
- Heartbreak 200 Permanent
- Kildare 200 Permanent
- Killeshin 200 permanent
- Laois 200 Permanent
- Little Carlingford 200 – Permanent
- Locked in Roscommon 200 Permanent
- Loughanleagh 200 Permanent
- Meath 200 Permanent
- Munster Centenary 200 – Permanent
- Royal Canal 200/300/400 Permanents
- Sligo 200 Permanent
- Suir 200 Permanent
- The Cheeky 200 Permanent
- The Rossies 200 Permanent
- The Unforgettable Fire 200 Permanent
- Three Masts 200 Permanent
- Waterside 200 (Permanent only)