The Three Bridges is a regular 100 mile (161km) club event which starts at 09:00 and takes you on a loop of East Yorkshire via the Humber Bridge and Boothferry Bridge. The Humber Bridge is probably the second hardest climb on the whole event. There's usually a fast group that blasts round in five and a bit hours, then there's everybody else who enjoys the cafe stops and takes (quite) a bit longer. There's plenty of food at the end, plus a friendly organiser (who will be 28 the day before, so you'd better wish me a happy birthday
) If you haven't ridden 100 miles before, it's an ideal place to start. It's also probably the easiest 2 challenge points on the calendar.The Bridges and Beaches is something a little more challenging that I cooked up last year. This starts at 08:30 and heads out through Thixendale to Bridlington seafront before weaving its way through the lanes of East Yorkshire to the Humber, where it rejoins the Three Bridges route. It was enjoyed by all who did it last year: Here is the write-up of one satisfied customer. Entries are looking good this year: I've got 20 riders entered already.
If you want to enter, it would help me enormously if you could do it online during the next couple of days. Otherwise you can enter on the day, in which case please bring a pre-filled entry form with you.
For the technologically minded among you, here are the routes on Bikely, from which you can download the gpx files. Note that if you want to go to the Water's Edge centre just after the Humber Bridge, that isn't on the gpx - but you just have to turn left instead of right after the bridge.
Bridges and Beaches on Bikely
Three Bridges on Bikely
See you in a week!
Greg
