Date: Sunday 27th January 2019
Difficulty/Climbing (from * to *****) **
Organiser: Peter Doyle
Organising Club: Wolftrap CC
Contact Address: 28 High Street, Birr, Co. Offaly
E-Mail: birraudax@gmail.com
“Eventbrite” Online Entry: Eventbrite Birr 200 Entry
Entry Fee by post: €5 postal order/cheque (payable to Wolftrap CC) to William Finnane at above address.
Download Audax Entry Form here Audax Entry Form-New Entry Forms may be printed and posted, or scanned and e-mailed to above postal or e-mail addresses as appropriate.
Closing Date for Entries: Friday 25th January 2019
Start Location: Birr Rugby Club, Birr, Co. Offaly
Start Time: 8.00am
Mandatory: Cycling Ireland Licence, Helmet and good lights. One-day Licence available at start if required, cost €5.00
Ride with GPS Map: Ride with GPS Birr 200
Route Description:
The Birr 200 is designed as a route suitable for winter riding, it sticks to fairly flat roads with good surfaces and has a control about every 40-50km. The biggest challenge at this time of the year is usually the weather and lack of training. The route starts in the historic Georgian town of Birr, Co. Offaly and heads North towards Banagher where it crosses the Shannon into Co. Galway, there is a small climb out of Eyrecourt over Redmount Hill before reaching the first control in Ballinasloe after 42km.
The next leg is fairly flat through Galway to the second Control in Loughrea at 78.8km.
Leaving the control you cycle past the shores of Lough Rea and towards the foothills or the Slieve Aughty mountains where there are a few drags, but nothing too hard before reaching the next control in Portumna at 113.4km where you cross the Shannon again and into Co. Tipperary.
The third leg of the route heads to Nenagh along the main road where there is a control at 141.5km, riders then head to Cloughordan along quiet roads and into Roscrea and back to Birr via a small climb at Leap Castle.
Good lights are essential and riders will not be allowed to start without them.
See also
- 1.5 Loughs winter permanent.
- Adrian Nealon 200 (& 100)
- Angel of Mons 200
- Ardattin 200
- Around Down 200
- Audare 200
- Banner 200
- Birr 200
- Blackwater 200 (Permanent)
- Coastal Classique 200 Permanent
- Dark Hedges 200
- Dawn Raid 200
- Dying Cow 200
- Dying Light 200
- East Wicklow 200 (Permanent only)
- EWC 200
- Excelsior 200 Permanent
- Faceless Monk 200
- Fermanagh 200
- Forgotten Roads 200
- Fratres Cruciferi/4 Towers 200
- Gheimhridh 200 (Winter 200)
- Gimme Shelter 200
- Inner Ring 200
- Kingsmountain 200
- Long Heron/5 Aqueducts 200
- Mayo 200
- Mayo Western Lakes 200/100 MTB
- Mayo XTRM 200
- Mick Byrne 200
- Midlands Meander 200
- Midleton 200
- North Leinster Riviera 200 Permanent
- Nutcracker 200
- Orwell Dublin-Meath-Kildare 200
- Pink Elephant 200
- Rock Savage 200
- Tara 200
- Temporary Fever Hospital 200
- Titanic Torr 200
- Tubbercurry Offroad 200
- Vanishing Battalion 200
- Waterside 200 (Permanent only)
- West Wicklow 200 Permanent
- Wolfe Tone West Cork 200
- Wolftrap 200
- Yola 200