Date: Saturday 17th February 2024
Difficulty/Climbing (from * to *****): ***
Organiser: Mike Law
E-mail: corkaudax@gmail.com
Entry Limit: 40 riders
Entry Fee €5. Cycling Ireland Licence required. 1-day Licence available for €20, this will be charged automatically on Eventmaster if you do not have a valid Annual Cycling Ireland Licence.
Entry is on Eventmaster: Eventmaster link to be advised
Closing date: Tuesday 13th February 2024
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.
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
- Abandoned Churches 200
- Adrian Nealon 200 (& 100)
- An East Clare Meander 200
- Ardattin 200
- Ardattin 200 Night Ride
- Audare 200
- Big Fella 200
- Birr 200
- Blackwater 200 (Permanent)
- Bravest of the Brave 200
- Coastal Classique 200 Permanent
- Crumbling Rocks 200 Permanent
- Dark Hedges 200
- Dying Light 200
- East Wicklow 200 (Permanent only)
- Effin 200
- Excelsior 200 Permanent
- Faceless Monk 200
- Fermanagh 200
- Gheimhridh 200 (Winter 200)
- Gimme Shelter 200
- Jack Hackett 200
- Killeshin 200
- Kingsmountain 200
- Larne Round the Lough 200
- Long Heron/4 Aquaducts 200
- Mayo 200
- Mayo XTRM 200
- Mick Byrne 200
- Midleton 200
- Miners Cross 200
- Naomh Barrog 200
- North Leinster Riviera 200 Permanent
- Northside Lowlander 200
- Old School 200
- Orwell 200
- Paddy Reilly 200
- Pink Elephant 200
- Rambo 200
- Sligo 200
- Temporary Fever Hospital 200
- Titanic Torr 200
- Tubbercurry Offroad 200
- Vanishing Battalion 200
- West Wicklow 200 Permanent
- Wolftrap 200
- Yola 200