TransEngland

"And the peace which I always found in the silence and
emptiness of the moors filled me utterly" James Herriot

Overview

TransEngland occurs each year on the first full weekend in April.

#transengland19 details:

Start: Fri 5 April 2019, 11.00pm start on Morecambe Pier
End: The Diving Belle statue in Scarborough
Post-ride debrief: Sat 6 April 2018 at The Ivy House Gastro Tea Room (Scarborough)

Key points:

The route is from Morecambe to Scarborough: ~280km long with ~4,800m of ascent taking in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors.
The trial consists of a start point, 5 checkpoints, and an end point. You chose the route passing through these checkpoints.
Tweet a timestamped photo at the start, at each checkpoint, and at the finish.

Chose your own route passing through the following points:

Start: Morecambe Pier: 54.074624, -2.878268
CP1: St. Hubert's RC Church: 53.947132, -2.528510
CP2: "Cam Houses Only" road sign: 54.257454, -2.215651
CP3: Tan Hill Inn: 54.455404, -2.160408 [no talking outside the Inn at 3am please]
CP4: St Nicholas Church (Bransdale): 54.377823, -1.046540
CP5: Robin Hood's Bay beach: 54.430319, -0.532116
End: The Diving Belle (Scarborough): 54.281799, -0.389991

Debrief: The Ivy House Gastro Tea Room (Scarborough): 54.284065, -0.387969

Step 1 - book travel/accommodation as per below (most TRC riders will follow this itinerary but by all means do your own thing):

Book train with bike reservation to Morecambe to arrive on Friday evening, ready for an 11pm departure
Book train with bike reservation from Scarborough early Saturday evening or Sunday morning
If staying the night on Saturday, book a bed in YHA Scarborough
Some crazies may ride back to Morecambe via the Way of the Roses route

Step 2 - enter the trial:

TransEngland18 title holder: Luke Allen (11h49) - full results [see Mistakes riders made at #transengland18]
#TER17: 5-6 May 2017 - 'winner' completed in 18h03m

Twitter feed: #transengland19