Early spring sportives
Deegs
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Anyone know of any good or half decent very early spring sportives? Dead disappointed to miss out on the Mad March Hare and have entered the Spring Onion instead.
Anyone know of any others in Mar/Apr- or even earlier?
I just did my first ever- Exmoor Beast- our group took our time but I loved it.
Hey and did you realise the fastest woman- and she was very quick- was dressed as a cat complete with ears and a tail about 4' long?
I think I like sportives, they seem fun!
Anyone know of any others in Mar/Apr- or even earlier?
I just did my first ever- Exmoor Beast- our group took our time but I loved it.
Hey and did you realise the fastest woman- and she was very quick- was dressed as a cat complete with ears and a tail about 4' long?
I think I like sportives, they seem fun!
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Search for 'The Puncheur' or 'SRS events' - both do sportives in march in the south east.0
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...or this one (but don't mention it's an audax
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http://www.beaconrcc.org.uk/audax/express/index.html0 -
Burgess Hill Spring Classic is a belter. Usually end of March0
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Another for the list for consideration - Epic Spring Challenge - £10 entry 13/3/11 :P
Entry opens 1/12/10
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Think the Hell of Ashdown is the first of the year. It's usually the first Sunday in February and has snowed the past two years. It's a decent enough 100km course, and of course the chill makes it interesting.0
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Deegs wrote:Anyone know of any good or half decent very early spring sportives? Dead disappointed to miss out on the Mad March Hare and have entered the Spring Onion instead.
Anyone know of any others in Mar/Apr- or even earlier?
Deegs, I'm working on more being able to re-open the entries again at some point as soon as I've secured or confirmed the availability of more parking space at the HQhttp://www.cultracing.com
http://www.cultcarbon.com
http://www.madmarchharesportive.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/madmarchharesportive0 -
Chessire Cat then the Forest of Dean for me. Always a good start to the year. Look on this and the other usuals sites, BC etc as they have sportive calenders.
Cycling Plus also publish a calender
Enjoy!“Look where you want to go. Not where you are going”0 -
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A new event called the Meon Valley Riser will be taking place on Sunday 3 April if you are interested. It's organised by the same people that manage the New Forest Rattler (one of those people being me ).
Full info about the event will be announced early December.
I did the Beast this year too - it was a right old slog wasn't it! Very good though!0 -
Deegs wrote:Anyone know of any good or half decent very early spring sportives?
Rides in January and February are a bit of a lottery with the weather
One year I did the "Poor Student" 200km audax from Oxford, in early January. It was ok until the last 20km, when it started raining0 -
Essex Roads Spring Lambs event is great early sportive.0
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Brewsterwmb wrote:Chessire Cat then the Forest of Dean for me. Always a good start to the year. Look on this and the other usuals sites, BC etc as they have sportive calenders.
Cycling Plus also publish a calender
Enjoy!
I'll be there for that one. Doing the full whack. Bring on Mow Cop!0 -
Don't forget to look for Reliability Rides as well..........there's a series in the Chilterns in Jan/Feb:
http://www.hemelcycling.org.uk/news/chi ... rides-20110
