The Dawn Raid is a permanent / non-calendar event that is an excuse for randonneurs living around the Meath flatlands to visit Wicklow for some hills.
Starting in Kilmessan, Co Meath, it travels through Maynooth and Straffan and on to Blessington, around the Poulaphouca Reservoir, and the granite village of Ballyknockan. Then begins the first main climb of the day, the Wicklow Gap and down into Laragh village, a good place for a break.
The second big climb is up to Sally Gap via Glenmacnass waterfall. After the long descent to Manor Kilbride, the short but sharp climb of Cupidstown / The Lamb Hill, the road is relatively flat back through Straffan, Kilcock, Summerhill and Trim.
There is about 2000m of climbing on the route – the first and last 70km are relatively flat, with most of the climbing concentrated in the middle 70km.
How to enter :
Send €6 to: paypal@audaxireland.org
Fill in the Entry Forms and send to: patrick.doocey@gmail.com
Route map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/16686978
Thanks to Daniel O’Sullivan for the photos below
See also
- –Dying Sow (permanent)
- 1.5 Loughs winter permanent.
- Abandoned Churches 200
- Adrian Nealon 200 (& 100)
- An East Clare Meander 200
- Angel of Mons 200
- Ardattin 200
- Ardattin 200 Night Ride
- Around Down 200
- Audare 200
- Aughties EPIC 200 Audax
- Banner 200
- Big Fella 200
- Birr 200
- Blackwater 200 (Permanent)
- Coastal Classique 200 Permanent
- Connaught Centenary 200
- Crumbling Rocks 200 Permanent
- Dark Hedges 200
- Dawn Raid 200
- Dying Light 200
- East Wicklow 200 (Permanent only)
- Effin 200
- 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
- Killeshin 200
- Kingsmountain 200
- Long Heron/4 Aquaducts 200
- Mayo 200
- Mayo Western Lakes 200/100 MTB
- Mayo XTRM 200
- Mick Byrne 200
- Midlands Meander 200
- Midleton 200
- Miners Cross 200
- North Leinster Riviera 200 Permanent
- Nutcracker 200
- Orwell 200
- Paddy Reilly 200
- Pink Elephant 200
- Rambo 200
- Rock Savage 200
- Sligo 200
- Tara 200
- Temporary Fever Hospital 200
- Titanic Torr 200
- Tubbercurry Offroad 200
- Vanishing Battalion 200
- West Wicklow 200 Permanent
- Wolfe Tone West Cork 200
- Wolftrap 200
- Yola 200