TransScotland

"Everyman dies but not everyman really lives" ahem Mel Gibson, Braveheart

overview

TransScotland occurs each year on the first full weekend in June.

#transscotland19 details:

Start: Sat 1 June 2019, 10.00am start at Inverness Castle (meet in Velocity Bike Cafe for a coffee beforehand)
End: George Square, Glasgow
Breakfast debrief: Mon 3 June 2019, 10am at the Trans-Europe Café

Key points:

The route is from Inverness to Glasgow: ~700km long with ~9000m of ascent via 6 checkpoints (all post boxes or telephone boxes). This is one for the route planning junkies as there some BIG choices to make regarding route and surface.
The trial consists of a start point, 6 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.

Checkpoints

Chose your own route passing through the following points:

Start: Inverness Castle: 57.475918, -4.225477
Mandatory parcours: from Inverness to Dingwall along Sustrans route 1
CP1: Telephone box and post box (The Craigs); 57.881628, -4.576174
CP2: Torridon telephone box: 57.549351, -5.51597
CP3: Applecross Inn (kudos to those who find and post the lat/long of the post box near there): 57.432745, -5.816003
CP4: Arnisdale post office: 57.134483, -5.569177
CP5: Dalavich post office: 56.263314, -5.280957
CP6: Brisbane street post office (Greenock): 55.949831, -4.768082 [ferries are allowed as long as they run perpendicular to the coast i.e. you are crossing a strait]
End: George Square, Glasgow: 55.861159, -4.250149

Debrief: Trans-Europe Cafe: 55.856292, -4.245473

Entry

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

Book sleeper train with bike reservation to Inverness to arrive on Saturday morning
Book train with bike reservation from Glasgow sometime Monday morning
Book a bed in YHA Glasgow
Advisable to book Monday off work for travel/recovery

Step 2 - enter the trial:

Join our club on Strava if not already a member
Sign-up to the event on Strava - here
Invite your mates and share on social media using #transscotland19

Results

Rider	CP1	CP2	CP3	CP4	CP5	CP6	Finish

TransScotland18 title holder: Niall Campbell (22h53m) - full results
TransScotland17 title holder: Fraser MacBeath (26h29m) - full results

Twitter feed: #transscotland19