Event Date: Saturday 3rd May 2025

Start time: 06:00 (Sign-on from 05:30)

Start Location: The Square, Moy, Co. Tyrone

Start Point: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vPBWwRff3sJtR6uw5

Closing Date for entries: Tuesday 29th April 2025

Organising Club: Audax Ireland

Organiser: Chris Bloomer

E-Mail: bloomerchris@hotmail.com

Mobile: 0044 7869407282

Difficulty/Climbing (from * to *****): ****

All entries must be made on Eventmaster only. Cycling Ireland Licence is mandatory. One Event Licence is available for €10 if required. This will be charged automatically on Eventmaster if you do not provide a valid current Cycling Ireland Licence Number.

Eventmaster Entry Link: https://eventmaster.ie/event/qE5PhP7SQq

Entry Fee: €5 plus Eventmaster Fees

Optional ACP or Audax Ireland Medals €7 each

RidewithGPS Map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/47873630

Parking/Facilities: There are public parking spaces available either side of The Square, and additional spaces in the Eurospar and Co-op at either end of the village. This is an unsupported event, riders must bring or buy their own refreshments, and must be self-sufficient for repairs etc. As with all Audax events over 200km, lights are mandatory and will be checked at the start – no lights, no card.

Excel and pdf Routesheets below

Route Description

This route explores the fringes and hinterlands of Co. Tyrone. It starts in the village of Moy (known locally as The Moy) and criss-crosses the River Blackwater into Co. Armagh several times before heading to Cookstown, where you will cycle on the longest street in Ireland.

The next section takes you into the Sperrins, via Beaghmore Stone Circles and Davagh Forest, and pops briefly over the Co. Derry border into Draperstown. Glenelly Valley cuts through the Sperrin AONB for 20km before the route crosses Barnes Gap and descends to the village of Gortin (rhymes with scorchin’). Then its back up to Gortin Glen Lakes & Forest Park, from where you can freewheel down to Omagh town!

There now follows some respite from the climbing, until you reach Clogher that is, after which the route will loop around Slieve / Sliabh Beagh (rhymes with leg), slipping into Co. Fermanagh and then Co. Monaghan, where you will reach the high point of the route at Bragan Mountain.

The climbing now over, you return to the Blackwater River which leads you back to Moy. Along this stretch you will pass the Castle Leslie Estate (home of Sir Jack Leslie, the disco-dancing aristocrat), and ride through the conservation village of Caledon.

Expect about 3700m of climbing and mixed road surfaces throughout this route, including a few sections of gravel (along the Coalisland Canal @17-23Km and at St Patrick’s Chair & Well @244-245km). There are some fairly remote sections without opportunity for food and water, but you will find options available at Cookstown (61km), Draperstown (110km), Gortin (148km), Omagh (167km), Clougher (193km), Aughnacloy (258km), Caledon (281km) and Moy (301km). Tomney’s Bar in Moy is well worth a visit at the finish.

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