Date: 19th February 2022
Difficulty/Climbing (from * to *****): ***
Organiser: Mark Hodnett
E-mail: audaxirl.mark@gmail.com
Entry Limit: 40 riders
Entry Fee €5. Cycling Ireland Licence required. 1-day Licence available for é10, this will be charged automatically on Eventmaster if you do not have a valid Annual Cycling Ireland Licence.
Entry is on Eventmaster: https://eventmaster.ie/event/mb02fyVFM8
Start: Midleton, Co. Cork
Start Time: 08:00
Facilities: Car parking at the start
Route Map: Gimme Shelter 200-2020
The “Gimme Shelter” is based out of Midleton, Co. Cork. Riders head South from Midleton by a series of back-roads to the townland of Inch in East Cork, before swinging around to the North East and starting on a 90 km trek along the Cork and Waterford coasts. While the road offers stunning views along the coastline, it doesn’t offer much in the line of hiding places from strong sea breezes and Easterly winds, hence the event name. On reaching the Waterford Gaeltacht village on An Rinn (Ring), the course curls around to the Northwest, trading sea views for the green fields of the Blackwater Valley. After passing though the iconic Dromara Gate, riders will reach Cappoquin and Lismore and then onwards to the final control of the day in the village of Rathcormac. The final section takes an undulating back road over the highest point of the day (which, at < 200m, is little more than half the height of the largest climb on the Midleton 200) before arriving back to Midleton and the finish.
Road surfaces are generally good but entrants should be aware that much of the route is on country lanes in agricultural areas and road conditions may deteriorate in sections, with potholes or mud / gravel. The course is rideable on 23mm tyres in good conditions but in poor weather or frost damage, 25s or 28s would be more comfortable. The route features less climbing and lower elevations than the previous Midleton 200 but entrants should be aware that the undulating nature of the coastal section, combined with the high chance of headwinds, means that this is not an easy day in the saddle.
Route navigation can best be described as “busy” in sections. Entrants will be emailed GPS files and route sheets in the run-up to the event.
Cycling Ireland Licence required, 1-day Licence available on the day.
This event is also available as a Permanent for €5 fee.
Please note that a Cycling Ireland annual licence is required to take part in a Permanent. Day licences will not be available for Permanents. The fee should be paid to paypal@audaxireland.org
See also
- 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 Cow / Mick Byrne 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
- 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
- Rock Savage 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