[Closed] Coast to coast (road)

Depends on route I guess. I did the Morecombe to Bridlington in about 14 riding hours fully loaded - it's the Way of the Roses route I think.

If you take a slightly different way into Settle and adjust a loop into a town in Lincs then doing in a day is Ok - once you get onto the descent to Pooley Bridge anyway....

(I wanted to bivvy out which I did near York)

and adjust a loop into a town in Lincs

giving any town in Lincs a miss might help 😆

on an equally helpful note - in a couple of months you'll pretty much know yr average speed and that will determine if you'll miss last orders or be sitting on the sun sipping a well earned beer

edit should be sitting in the sun at least was same solar system!

It's more the climbing that concerns me rather than distance. Beer would be nice mind!

The route I suggested has a real beggar of a climb out of Settle and further on over Brimham Rocks(?). After that it is not so bad.

This one does Hardknott and Wrynose! So just gentle slopes really! 😕

It would be easy to talk myself out of it!

I did the C2C from Whitehaven to Sunderland a few years ago.

We took 3 days. It was about 130 miles in total. Doing it in 1 day would be tough.

Getting more worried now!

I did Whitehaven to Sunderland in 3 days. Sme big climbs would be possible but a hard trip in a day

I would say you would be best off on a cyclocross bike for a day attempt

My road club has done the c2c2c in two days. before. It really depends on the route, some are much longer than others. I assume they went from Whitehaven to Tynemouth which is 120 miles so more than doable in a days ride.

Best bet would be to get the bike comfortable and build up to it. You can start off with regular short rides then build on that. 50 miles should be easy for a regular cyclist but do a few 30-40 mile ones first. You can do rides with stops too as I doubt you'll be doing the full distance with your supplies being handed to you while you are moving.

Learn how to ride on someones wheel as it will make things easier, also essential if you spend all day with the wind against you.

Cheers Jonba. I'll be on a road bike, and I'm happy doing 30 plus off road. I shall have a crack at training and see how I go.

Mate did it in a day last June, into a horrible headwind too!

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We did Workington to Sunderland in a day in 2010.
It took 10.75hrs of rolling time but a whopping 15.5hrs overall.
From this i took some points :-

Make sure you and your mates are capable of maintaining the same speed, we had to split the group because the two slower lads were over half an hour behind us on the big climbs and we were getting seriously cold waiting for them.
Don't take too many breaks. We spent way too long at the Hartside cafe.

I found the Lakes easy as it was all on valley roads rather than high passes. The climb up Hartside and the ensuing 50 miles of fells was a killer though.

If i can do it anyone can - go for it!

A pair of us did the Sustrans Whitehaven to Sunderland route in a day a couple of years ago. I think we took similar times as Muddydwarf and everything he says is true.

The climbs in the Lakes are not too bad - the hardest one I found was the climb to the Northumberland border. Once you're up there it gets a lot more sensible.

We looked at it as a 100 mile ride, and then a 40 mile descent - which is pretty much the case. Once you climb above Rookhope a the 100 mile point, you can see the sea and that gives you a huge boost.

We met a friend at the pub in Rookhope, where he brought me spare brake blocks (I wore through a set!) and that really helped - someone to push us along and bring in some fresh conversation and so on. Mind you, we did get ridiculous and drop him on a short climb near Sunderland, just to see if we could and it seemed funny at the time...

Eat lots - and then eat more. Things that are tasty are good!!

I'm not particularly fit at all - but I am stupidly determined. I think that is more important on a ride like this.

Use plenty of Assos...

Rachel

Cheers for the advice. Doesn't seem too bad from your descriptions. I reckon it's worth a go, see how the training pans out etc etc. Best start the hunt for a bloody good pair of shorts!!!

Spud,

I did Whitehaven to Sunderland in a day last year.

if you want any advice just give us a shout, couple of months training and you'l be fine. Biggest tip i can give is plenty of long training rides to get used to riding almost all day

cheers
ninkynonk

Cheers Ninkynonk, may well do that.

Mark I linked your site a few posts up 😉