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Route wanted

  • 12-03-2009 3:41pm
    #1
    tunney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm looking for a hilly 130km ride. So far I've got

    http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2628543
    165km (Sally gap, Wicklow gap, Slieve Mann - think so anyways (can someone check??? - and then back over Sally gap and home)

    http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2628562
    110

    (Sally Gap and Wicklow Gap)

    Need something in between - suggestions?


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  • #2
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Could you use a course creator?

    http://cc2.bradculberson.com/flex/bin/CourseCreator.html

    This one has got topo details and elevation data available.


  • #3
    tunney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Jawgap wrote: »
    Could you use a course creator?

    http://cc2.bradculberson.com/flex/bin/CourseCreator.html

    This one has got topo details and elevation data available.

    Wow thats a poorly implemented tool.


  • #4
    scottreynolds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭scottreynolds


    tunney wrote: »
    I'm looking for a hilly 130km ride. So far I've got

    http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2628543
    165km (Sally gap, Wicklow gap, Slieve Mann - think so anyways (can someone check??? - and then back over Sally gap and home)

    http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2628562
    110

    (Sally Gap and Wicklow Gap)

    Need something in between - suggestions?

    Its only going to be variations on that. You would go... Enniskeerry--> Sally Gap --> Lugalla --> Laragh --> Lugalla -->Sally Gap --> Blessington etcetc but there's only a few routes.

    or

    Sally Gap --> Blessington Way --> around the wicklow gap that way and home via sally gap.

    You don't have much variation either way. If you need really hilly you'll probably just end up finding a tough tough route and do loops.


  • #5
    tunney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    scottreynolds wrote: »
    Its only going to be variations on that. You would go... Enniskeerry--> Sally Gap --> Lugalla --> Laragh --> Lugalla -->Sally Gap --> Blessington etcetc but there's only a few routes.

    or

    Sally Gap --> Blessington Way --> around the wicklow gap that way and home via sally gap.

    You don't have much variation either way. If you need really hilly you'll probably just end up finding a tough tough route and do loops.

    Cheers - afraid I'll have to make the 20km up in repeats!


  • #6
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    Once you reach Blessington, you could head to Naas via Eadstown and then onto Saggart to via backroads


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  • #7
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    130km on the dot, starting and ending in Stepaside

    Variations (if you wanted to make it tougher) would include going up to Johnny Foxes on the way, from Kilternan, left at the cross roads, over the Devil's Elbow, down into Powerscourt valley and up towards Old Long Hill but turning right half-way up to continue on the plotted route.

    You could also throw in an ascent/descent of Kippure, that adds ~230m of quite steep climbing.

    Do you have a preference for the type of climb? Steady 7-8% stuff or short sharp steep ones?


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