Will any Sportives go ahead in 2021?

Prof Nolan had already indicated that current restrictions will not lift on 5th March, a full month in advance. Looks like the case reduction has stalled at 1,000 per day, and 2/3 of cases are the UK variant. So not looking good, we can't have another start up and lockdown. I think the plan is to hold firm to allow the vaccine roll out to finally push the numbers down and keep them down. Don't think spotives are high on the agenda.

Sportives? Races?

I'd like my child to get to school & for myself to travel more than 5km down the road in March!

I dunno....how would an organiser be able to enforce distancing on cyclists? Race marshals can barely do it during triathlons :pac:

And mates will cycle beside mates all day long so it's a tricky one for sure.

ridelikeaturtle wrote: »

the Ring of Kerry cycle just got cancelled...

https://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/ring-of-kerry-sportive-planned-for-summer-cancelled-due-to-covid-19/

Again ! Was cancelled yesterday too

The blind optimism, is refreshing.

Jesus wept.

Please, please let this happen!

Biker79 wrote: »

No gatherings of over 50 until Autumn.

https://www.businesspost.ie/

Cant see how any summer sportives can go ahead in that case. Will have to see what CI say.

Indoors it says.....

Not promising but not a total death knell for the season.

Wicklow 200 now officially gone for 2021.....

https://twitter.com/wicklow200/status/1361267014543769602?s=21

Might be a better option to jump the queue for the vaccine and sort out some PCR tests for a trip to GC. UCI series sportive through the Valley of the Tears to go ahead next month.

https://desafiolatitanica.es/en/

Ring of Beara cycle also cancelled this year now .. rescheduled to 28th May 2022

Biker79 wrote: »

The CI calendar has quite a few sportive entries, as of yesterday.

It says ' Events that are pending date approval will not appear on the calendar. '

So they are approved for the calendar, but yet its still unclear if they will actually take place..

Nothing in the news section since Feb 2nd.

if they are on the calendar them they have their date approved by CI ( you then still need to upload safety statements etc)

looks like clubs haven't emailed CI to tell them to take events off the calendar, i cancelled ours on the 17th april, emailed CI and its not on the calendar.

lets be honest there shouldn't be a single event on there if its not virtual until april 5th at the earliest.

harringtonp wrote: »

All the big ones being pulled. It's a year for the smaller club sportive. Many of the ones I've done have been as enjoyable as but much cheaper than the big ones.

You can’t beat a sportive race for me, smaller school fundraiser type events. They can be absolute bananas at times.

McBluffin wrote: »

Spotted this today for Oct 2021. You would want some mental strength to do solo.
http://mondello24.com/?fbclid=IwAR3_Qkj8mUFTTzlua6J4E_5nJJa4YrTceSbzlPRuHNhqYPvTcBzLwLVP9gg

A comfy saddle and good fuelling moreso imho, no big climbs, lots of good places trackside to set up Basecamp and being on a closed loop road makes it an "easy" 24.

nilhg wrote: »

I'm not sure that easy and 24 hr race belong in the same sentence.......

The circuit is 3.44km and can be a pig in the wind, lads at the pointy end will be doing close on 200 laps, that'll be hard on the head, yes it'll be handy to have easy access to the facilities but that can be a double edged sword, when I did the Athy version you knew that once you headed away from the cars you had 44.5km before you got back.

I did mean relatively, if your looking at doing a 24 it's an easy one to do.

Very short laps means no need to carry as much.
You also get a cheer/info from the pit bitch each lap (5 mins?) Which gives you a massive mental boost. It's another 5 mins until you get that hot cup of tea you asked for etc.
Also means other riders you can draft with for periods which means you'll set good times/distances as you work together.
A race track has a much more composed surface so less need to concentrate on the road surface, which is important at night.

I'm surprised they didn't do 12 hours splits for those thinking about doing longer time cycles (maybe they get enough and the track is too crowded?) But don't fancy a drop straight into 24 races.