Newbie!!! Looking for Sportives round Leicester/Midlands

drumsmasher

I am looking to start entering some Sportives this year for the 1st time and wondered if anyone knew of any in the Leicestershire/Midlands area. I am aware of the Dono Park one in May, but cant find anything before. If anyone has any info i'd be grateful. Thanks.

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drumsmasher

Cheers mate. i'll keep my eye on their site when its sorted.

Tom Butcher

Sunday 1st Feb - 9.30am - VC Long Eaton reliability - old post office (it's between the centre and the station) - Long Eaton - normally a decent turnout.

drumsmasher

Thanks Tom, I'll have a look at that one.

feel

Have a read of THIS thread. Some useful suggestions when i asked a similar question at the end of last year.
THere is also the great nottingham bike ride that has a 50 and a 100 around about september.

matthewbradford

There is the Squires and Spires ride on 3rd May. I think this is a new one and the long route is about 80 miles. HQ is Naseby, Northants. Think I might register for this myself.

More details can be found on www.cyclosport.org

howiejmidlands

There is the Midlands Monster on 17th May. Starting in Rosliston and going out into the Peak DIstrict. I will be volunteering for this as a helper, as my new club CC Giro are co-working on this with Wheels in Wheels who organise the Forst of Dean Spring Classic.
It should be a great event with an interesting course, trust me.

drumsmasher

Thanks all!! Best my pedalling legs on...plenty to go at there. Cheers for your replies!

johnbirkby46213

drumsmasher wrote:

I am looking to start entering some Sportives this year for the 1st time and wondered if anyone knew of any in the Leicestershire/Midlands area. I am aware of the Dono Park one in May, but cant find anything before. If anyone has any info i'd be grateful. Thanks.

You might also try some local-ish audax rides. There are some good ones with quite some challenging routes if you don't want to venture far. I'll be doing a mixture of Audax and sportive rides this year.
And because bikeradar forum guys up in Yorkshire have organised fabby rides there for forum members, I feel I should do my bit and organise a 100km ride around Leicestershire/warks/northants. Actually I have one ride sorted already.... Just need to find a Sunday to give it a whirl. Just a pity that ColinJ, Blonde and some of the other guys won't be able to make it down here.....not enough hills you see.! :shock:
JB

drumsmasher

johnbirkby46213 wrote:

drumsmasher wrote:

I am looking to start entering some Sportives this year for the 1st time and wondered if anyone knew of any in the Leicestershire/Midlands area. I am aware of the Dono Park one in May, but cant find anything before. If anyone has any info i'd be grateful. Thanks.

You might also try some local-ish audax rides. There are some good ones with quite some challenging routes if you don't want to venture far. I'll be doing a mixture of Audax and sportive rides this year.
And because bikeradar forum guys up in Yorkshire have organised fabby rides there for forum members, I feel I should do my bit and organise a 100km ride around Leicestershire/warks/northants. Actually I have one ride sorted already.... Just need to find a Sunday to give it a whirl. Just a pity that ColinJ, Blonde and some of the other guys won't be able to make it down here.....not enough hills you see.! :shock:
JB

Cheers John. Yeah i have been looking at Audax's on the Audax Uk site. I had never heard of them until yesterday but there looks to be some good days out there. i'll start drawing up a list of ones that look possible. Cheers again for your help mate.

johnbirkby46213

drumsmasher wrote:

Cheers John. Yeah i have been looking at Audax's on the Audax Uk site. I had never heard of them until yesterday but there looks to be some good days out there. i'll start drawing up a list of ones that look possible. Cheers again for your help mate.

Let me know which ones you settle on. If I'm doing them, we could team up for a while on the ride.

JB

fosst

"feel I should do my bit and organise a 100km ride around Leicestershire/warks/northants. Actually I have one ride sorted already.... Just need to find a Sunday to give it a whirl."


as another Hinckley rider doing 100km most Sundays, and barely straying out of Leicestershire, do you want to compare notes?

johnbirkby46213

fosst wrote:

"feel I should do my bit and organise a 100km ride around Leicestershire/warks/northants. Actually I have one ride sorted already.... Just need to find a Sunday to give it a whirl."


as another Hinckley rider doing 100km most Sundays, and barely straying out of Leicestershire, do you want to compare notes?

Sounds good to me. I'll pm you with my e-addy

neil²

I've heard rumours of a 50miler on 15th Feb around Leicester.... does anyone know anything about it?

N²

davidmiller

neil² wrote:

I've heard rumours of a 50miler on 15th Feb around Leicester.... does anyone know anything about it?

N²

http://www.cyclosport.org/article.aspx? ... entid=1069