Date: NOT scheduled in 2024
Difficulty/Climbing (from * to *****): *****
MTB/Gravel Bike required
200KM: 3,734m of climbing
100KM: 1,776m of climbing
Organiser: Tim Killeen
Phone: 085 1476764
E-Mail: tkilleen07@gmail.com
Entry Fee: €15 (€10 goes to designated charity, €5 to cover costs on the day including food stops, signage and stewarding).
Optional ACP or Audax Ireland Medal €7
1-day Licence if required €5
Eventmaster Online Entry: TBC
Closing Date: Sunday 19th June 2021
Start Location: Hill Bar, Kylebrack, Loughrea, Co.Galway
Start Location: https://goo.gl/maps/uQ6Skin28bfyiPJo6
(Estimated time to complete would be 12 hours if averaging around 17 km/h with 14 hours cut-off due to daylight).
We will be running this as a virtual event so there will be no mass start and no more than groups of 2 starting together. Strava App required for tracking or upload.
Route Description:
Epic adventure biking route over challenging 200km. Route takes in a mix of back roads, boreens, gravel roads, forestry roads/tracks with a small bit of singletrack at start and finish. Rolling terrain, with lots of steep road and gravel climbs but also lots of long exhilarating and scenic descents.*
*100KM option available for those who don’t feel confident of completing 200KM in 14 hours
Strava Route link(s) Available for GPX file download:
200KM: https://www.strava.com/routes/2818880571448321840
100KM: https://www.strava.com/routes/2818775581045973808
Cycling Ireland Licence required, One-day Licence available on the day for €5.
Parking
Plenty of parking available at start/finish line courtesy of Hill Bar, Kylebrack and Kylebrack Woods, Loughrea.
See also
- 12 hour Reliability Trial
- Around Down 200
- Aughties EPIC 200 Audax
- Banner 200
- Beara 400
- Connaught Centenary 200
- Dawn Raid 200
- EWC 200
- Forgotten Roads 200
- Fratres Cruciferi/4 Towers 200
- Inner Ring 200
- Iron Mountains 300
- Magilligan 300
- Marble City 200
- Mayo Western Lakes 200/100 MTB
- Midlands Meander 200
- Night of the Swan 300
- Nutcracker 200
- Nutcracker 300
- Red Line Red Lane 600
- Rock Savage 200
- Six Megaliths 300
- Slieve Maan 200
- Tara 200
- The Penance Or Perish /The Road To Salvation 400
- Trench Eyre 400
- Wolfe Tone West Cork 200