2013 Sportives - Whats on the list??

nunowoolmez

Blimey Rick, thats a LOT of cash you are spending there, but fair play if you manage em all! I am having to be quite selective this year, but i am also taking my first cycle trips in Majorca & France. Didn't get a place on the Fred, so will do Etape Du Dales instead.

FatTed

GWA Loop 204 K
http://www.gwaloop.co.nz/gwaloop-cycle-challenge/maps/

3 Peaks Challenge 235 K (and a few hills)
https://www.bicyclenetwork.com.au/gener ... des/94624/

gsk82

I've enterred:

Tour of Flanders
Richmond 5 dales (my third time, its shocking that this great event doesn't fill up every year. Stunning route in the dales, great HQ, hot food, good feedstops and only £15. "Only £15" is possibly the problem)

Also looking at white rose classic (£30) and the ryedale rumble if its back on (about £25 I think).

Ive also booked the raid pyrenean in early June with Pyrenees cycling.

dylanfernley

aint paying to ride my bike !!

nunowoolmez

Well good for you. Excellent contribution to this thread.

dylanfernley

most welcome, cannot justify spending money i aint got on something that can be done fro nowt- i have no helmet either, so according to the 'organisers' of such events you are excluded from getting any support--they are mostly on public roads, so if i choose to ride along then so be it.... have fun ..

sporttourer

rickallison wrote:

MARCH
10th DUNKERY DASH N.PETHERT. 64 MILES
17th ENDURA LIONHEART LONGLEAT 102 MILES
APRIL
21ST WHITE HORSE SHRIVENHAM 90 MILES
29TH WIG.CORNWALL coastal LANHYDROCK 101 MILES
MAY
5TH SOMERSET HILLS GF CHEDDAR 112 MILES

25TH-
2ND JUNE TOUR OF SCOTLAND STIRLING 600 MILES
JUNE

17th The Great Western Sportive SWINDON 100 MILES
23RD DARTMOOR CLASSIC KINGST. 106 MILES


JULY
14th MAGNIFICAT NEWBURY 126 MILES
3 Counties Challenge 112 MILES

AUGUST

11TH JURASSIC CLASSIC EXMOUTH 100 MILES
18TH BLENHEIM BLENHEIM 102 MILES
31st LOCHABER 100 FORT WILLIAM 100
SEPTEMBER

7TH MOOR2SEA EXETER 112 MILES
22ND BRISTOL BELTER 100 MILES
Vitus Road Sportive RUTHIN 85
22ND FESTIVAL OF SPORT ST.M.MOUNT 100

OCTOBER
SOUTH DOWNS chichester 100 MILES
EMOOR BEAST TIVERTON 103 MILES

Wiggle coasting in Cornwall is Sunday 21st April not 29th, so hope you haven't double booked.
& unfortunately the Festival of Sport at St Michaels mount has been cancelled as the organisers are greedy barstewards and didnt make enough money last year even though it was a really good event for its first year.

Ron Stuart

My preliminary ride plan which will change no doubt.

3rd Feb 112k Ludlow CC Reliability Trial
10th Feb 102k Paramount CRT Reliability Trial
11th Feb To Algarve
27th Feb From Algarve (could be me back on 7th or 9th March!)
3rd Mar 80k Newport CC Reliability Trial
17th Mar 88k Epic Cycles Spring Challenge. Ludlow
24thMar ? A CTC Ride to Church Eaton (maybe)
6th Apr 120k Long Mynd 120 Audax. Lydham
5th May 160k Squires and Spires. Northants
12th May 79k Oswestry Paragon CC Reliability Trial
1stJun 170K 3 Rivers Audax Wem
16th Jun 104k Shropshire Highland Challenge. Ludlow
22nd Jun 160k Flatish 100 (From Red Barn) taking in 'Old Ma's Cafe near Tattenhall'
22nd Jun 80k Flatish 50 (From Red Barn) taking in 'Coton Oaks'
7th Jul 160k Shropshire Hills Sportive. Bridgnorth
25th Aug 136k Wild Wales Challenge. Bala
7th Sep 51k Tamworth Audax ? 50km with Viv, Ray and Julie
5th Oct 120k Discovering Shropshire Audax. Upton Magna

Home Worker

+1 for Richmond 5 Dales. Plan to ride again this year.

Stedman

Long Eaton Reliability Ride
Three Fields (Audax)
Roses to Wraggs (Audax)
Charmwood in spring (Audax)
Etape Caledonia
Tramway 100 (Audax)
Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride
Great Manchester Cycle
Ride London 100 (got a charity place today and I am also in the ballot)
Phil Liggett CTC Challenge ride

…………..and I suspect that I shall add some more audaxes to this list.

Pumpkin Positive

Stedman wrote:

Long Eaton Reliability Ride

Ride London 100 (got a charity place today and I am also in the ballot)

I've also applied for charity place - haven't heard yet. But if you're given a charity place is your name removed from the Ballot? I'd rather get in through the ballot and let someone else have my charity place.

Stedman

The arrangement that I have with my chosen charity is one where I give them back my charity place if I win a place via the ballot, however I would still have my place on the team and there is no minimum sponsorship.

Stedman

Pumpkin Positive wrote:

Stedman wrote:

Long Eaton Reliability Ride

Ride London 100 (got a charity place today and I am also in the ballot)

I've also applied for charity place - haven't heard yet. But if you're given a charity place is your name removed from the Ballot? I'd rather get in through the ballot and let someone else have my charity place.

The arrangement that I have with my chosen charity is one where I give them back my charity place if I win a place via the ballot, however I would still have my place on the team and there is no minimum sponsorship.

If there are any spare places after the initial wave of charity applications, it has also been agreed that I shall notify other Audax/sportive riders of these via this forum.

BlakeysFC

Evans Ride It! - Gatwick,
Evans Ride It! - Woking,
Wiggle Ups and Downs - Dorking,
Wiggle Surrey Sussex Scramble - Pulborough,
Wiggle Bournemouth Sportive,
Wiggle French Revolution - Dover,
Wiggle Wight Ferry Sportive - Brockenhurst,
Wiggle Mega Meon - Waterlooville,
Ride London 100 (If I get in),
Evans Ride It! - Liphook,
New Forest Rattler Sportive - Ringwood,

Although seeing as I've done 0 miles since November I may be in over my head...

blim

Just Flanders. I envy those with the time (and presumably fewer family commitments) to have a big long list!

56mph

But blim to train for Flanders aren't you going to be out spending time riding your bike anyway? Personally I can't stand being stuck indoors on the turbo, so do spinning classes in the week, and find that a lot of UK sportives are a great way to get in a good long training ride at the weekend on a signposted route through new countryside with some support in order to build up for a more challenging event, such as a Fred Whitton or a Dragon Ride. So I am doing some 12 or so sportives this year as part of my training for Paris-Roubaix in April and then the Etape in July.

dylanfernley

for £ 20 a go--i'll give you some rides to do !

blim

56mph wrote:

But blim to train for Flanders aren't you going to be out spending time riding your bike anyway? Personally I can't stand being stuck indoors on the turbo, so do spinning classes in the week, and find that a lot of UK sportives are a great way to get in a good long training ride at the weekend on a signposted route through new countryside with some support in order to build up for a more challenging event, such as a Fred Whitton or a Dragon Ride. So I am doing some 12 or so sportives this year as part of my training for Paris-Roubaix in April and then the Etape in July.

I don't cycle often enough (who does?) and therefore look on any sportive as an event to aim for in itself rather than as training for a further event, but i take your point.

noiseboyfeetman

Somerset Gran Fondo
Wiggle Bournemouth Sportive
Wiggle Magnificat

Mikey41

I may well add a couple more later on but so far:

24th Feb - Ride-It Leeds (50 miles)
19th May - Ride-It Langholm (60 miles)

If those go well I should be going for a 100 miler by the end of the year.

AlexMac1973

Booked for the Tour of Wessex, only the 213 mile over 3 day (25 - 27 May - Medium Tour)


As for back home in Cornwall I'll hopefully be doing:

14 Apr - Audax A Cornish 100 (103km)
21 Apr - Coasting in Cornwall (96km)
19 May - Audax Lizard Loop (103km)
7 Jul - Audax Mines and Mineral Railways On-road (69km)
21 Jul - Bodmin Moor 100 (147km)
11 Aug - Audax The Celtic Coastal (104km)
8 Sept - Audax Golowjy ha Bal (116km)
6 Oct - Lands End 100 (Maybe the 160km if I feel like it)

Fingers croosed I should be able to do all of these, providing the Cornish summer isn't a washout. Just a shame the Festival of Sport was cancelled, I was looking forward to that one as I missed doing it last year due to fitness.

Guanajuato

Two definites for me, plus probably a couple of others.
Definites:
Kendal Sportive (Wheelbase Spring Classic) March 24th - already booked.
Jennings Rivers Ride September 15th - Brilliant last year, despite being in the pouring rain.
Possibly Le Terrier, Tour de Staveley and Ride with Brad. Just spotted the Dentdale Beauty & the Beast too - sounds a challenge.

Being a bit of a newcomer and unfit, I'm not doing the full-length rides. For the Jennings, its because I'll be taking my daughter on the family ride as well (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it) and there isn't enough time. In fact, we're off to the launch event in Cockermouth this Sunday. A ten-mile family ride, hopefully the predicted snow will have been & gone.
Also planning a ride from Kendal to Saltaire at some point.

maddog 2

Fred
Badass
Haute Alp

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Dragon Ride
Ride100 (if I get a place)
Reigate Sunday Sportive
Paris Roubaix Challenge

May also do a Surrey Hills Evans or Wiggle one if I get the time