JOGLE in 10 days.

lcwilliams

Hi,

Myself and my brother are doing End to End (JOGLE), starting on the 27th of July this year for Pancreatic cancer. We are doing the ride (or attempting, anyway) in 10 days.

Does have any advise on distance per day, due to terrain etc etc in Scotland and Devon (i here is quite tough), and recommended places to stay, ie what towns and any nice (cheap) b&bs.

Many thanks,

Leight.

rick_chasey

It's easier to ride from South to North rather than the other way round due to prevailing winds.

meanredspider

Happy to provide a bit of local route advice around Inverness if your route comes this way....

mattbass789

Rick Chasey wrote:

It's easier to ride from South to North rather than the other way round due to prevailing winds.

But going from north to south always feels like going down hill.

lcwilliams

hi folks

what we are trying to find out is where we should be stopping each day on a 10 day jogle, for best accomodation, best use of the days etc etc

any thoughts

nasahapley

I can't answer your question but am interested in any answers as me and a mate are doing a 9-day JOGLE in early September. So far the plan is just to divide the distance up more or less equally each day and hope for the best - some days will doubtless be harder than others but there you go. I don't think we're going to bother too much about staying in nice towns - it's not like we'll be there for long anyway on a 9-day schedule!

lcwilliams

thats our question, except you put it a lot better than me!

dont care about scenery, just need to know how best to divide the miles into the 10 days and then where to stop each night

toontra

Have a look at the LEJoG resource website - http://www.cycle-endtoend.org.uk/

Plenty of ride reports and probably several 9 and 10-day rides to give you some ideas. Good luck.

lastant

lcwilliams wrote:

dont care about scenery, just need to know how best to divide the miles into the 10 days and then where to stop each night

Er...do you not think half the 'fun' of this sort of trip is the planning of it yourself? Quite easy though, the route can be done in 850ish miles or as long as you want. You're doing it in ten days, so assume you want the quicker one (especially as you don't care about scenery!)...

There's plenty of route advice available on the web, the CTC end-to-end pack is available to members which I'd suggest you simply buy and use. Otherwise...take the 850miles, divide by ten, you need to cover 85 miles a day. Find spots that fit in with that.

It's what I did / will be doing on my twelve day trip - set off next Friday! The blog's here...

toontra

lastant wrote:

There's plenty of route advice available on the web, the CTC end-to-end pack is available to members which I'd suggest you simply buy and use.

I have to disagree here! I joined the CTC for the end-to-end pack and was bitterly disappointed to receive a few very badly photocopied A4 sheets. The accommodation info was minimal and much of it out of date. There were only 3 routes, none of which suited me, so in the end it was totally useless.

You will find far more useful info on the website which I linked to above. My own blog ( http://6-daylejog.blogspot.com/ ) is on there and will give you an example of a fast route - you could adapt the stop-overs to suit. Using the internet you should be able to find suitable accommodation wherever you want.
My advice to cyclists? If at all possible use Travelodges, especially if you can book them in their sales for under £20. They are cycle-friendly and you can get 2 people (one on a sofa bed) and 2 bikes in with ease. Takes all the guesswork out of B&B's and youth hostels.

orangepip

As a quick side question does anyone know any companies that offer supported jogle rides?

amaferanga

There are loads of possible routes on online mapping websites, but here's my actual tracklog from my 5 day LEJOG last year as an example of a fairly direct, but still enjoyable route:

Day 1 (NB: add 15 miles as I forgot to start my GPS at LE)
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

Some stretches of road (e.g. A38 and A9) were mostly okay for me, but how busy they are obviously depends on time of day. I left Cheddar at about 5am so I was through Bristol before it got too busy, but taking the same route leaving at 8am would probably be pretty unpleasant. Likewise, the A9 was quite enjoyable for me after about 3pm as I was heading to Aviemore and then again from Aviemore to Inverness, leaving at 5am.

I stayed in a combination of B&Bs, Youth Hostels and I stopped off at a mates house in Beattock. All you have to do is find accommodation at the halfway point of each of my days.

I agree with lastant though - half the fun should be in the planning so get Googling....

Blacktemplar

lcwilliams wrote:

thats our question, except you put it a lot better than me!

dont care about scenery, just need to know how best to divide the miles into the 10 days and then where to stop each night

LE to Dawlish – 105 mi
Dawlish to Bristol – 89 mi
Bristol to Shrewsbury – 107 mi
Shrewsbury to Preston – 81 mi
Preston to Carlisle – 87 mi
Carlisle to Glasgow – 96 mi
Glasgow to Fort William – 101 mi
Fort William to Tain – 93 mi
Tain to JO’G – 86 mi

845 miles (approx) in total..... :twisted:

BlueTowser

I completed Jogle (May 2010) in 8 days. I stayed at Premier Inns most of the way, cheap, comfortable and you can bring your bike in your room. Also, it's wrong to believe that the wind will be against you. I had 7 days of tailwinds which helped enormously. Ask anyone who's done either route though and they'll tell you you get some Northerlies and some Souhterlies

gareth2134

lcwilliams wrote:

Hi,

Myself and my brother are doing End to End (JOGLE), starting on the 27th of July this year for Pancreatic cancer. We are doing the ride (or attempting, anyway) in 10 days.

Does have any advise on distance per day, due to terrain etc etc in Scotland and Devon (i here is quite tough), and recommended places to stay, ie what towns and any nice (cheap) b&bs.

Many thanks,

Leight.

Hi mate, well me and my friend are doing it on the 1st of july over 10 days we have the route all planned and where we will be staying etc etc.
What I will do when i arrive back on the 10th is send the info to you on what we took what we didn't need what we should have taken etc.

i will give you the route we use and you can change accordingly or do the same one.

Teach

From a friend who did it. LEJOG, he said Cornwall was a lot hillier than he had really anticipated and that cycling through the vallies in Scotland was a lot easier than he thought Scotland would be. Maybe he wasn't fit at the beginning and found any hill hard work.

gazrolo

I know this is an old post but thought I'd comment just in case anyone was searching through the archives.

Our route is planned out here http://journal.garethroulston.co.uk. It's a 10 day LEJOG, but could easily be done in reverse. Total distance is just over 1000 miles and it takes in some great scenery in Western Scotland. Also, we are sticking to minor roads for a good section of the route. We're really looking forward to it.

Will also be adding accommodation and pub stops soon, with reviews once we have completed the ride.

Anyway, hope it's off use. Check out the site and let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Gareth