Outlaw 2013

Rustman - Last year's route had about 1,500 feet of vertical, according to mapmyride. Year before about 1,900 feet.

Blisters - hopefully they'll gain agreement to increase the entrant numbers and release another batch. Might be worth getting your name on the waiting list.... or maybe just plan for a better wedding anniversary present?

slowerthanilook wrote (see)

Rustman - Last year's route had about 1,500 feet of vertical, according to mapmyride. Year before about 1,900 feet.

Thanks, that doesn't sound too bad. I've struggled to find 30 mile routes round here (Skipton) that are under 1,000' (not that I do them quickly enough - yet!)

RustMan, I train around the Forest of Bowland, so not far from you. I did Outlaw this year, and  believe me, its FLAT compared to around these parts .

to a Yorkshireman the whole country is flat , if like me you just live in Yorkshire it is still very hilly!  I did the Outlaw this year and it was very flat with a  few rises that might account for the ascent if taken over enough miles!

B'ar! as a yorkshire gimp I must say the outlaw course is flat with a couple of speedbumps.  

so really if I do all my training in Yorkshire then I will find cycling anywhere else easier?

mathschick wrote (see)

so really if I do all my training in Yorkshire then I will find cycling anywhere else easier?

Chuckes if you do all your biking in yorkshire you will ever find yourself becoming very fit or sick of the sight of your bike.

 a little dicky bird told me, that the bike route is changing for 2013, to a 2 large  loops. Don't hold me to this though but it did come from a reliable source!!

The Outlaw was like climbing Snowdon or Ben Nevis! I got a nosebleed at the top of Oxtron Bank. Wow that air was thin!

 Chuffing southerner's.

 I asked the supporters at the top, was that really Oxten bank!

so cycling up oxton bank isn't going to prepare me for cycling elsewhere? Actually, I think I do know a couple of steeper hills round here

Running Postie wrote (see)

 a little dicky bird told me, that the bike route is changing for 2013, to a 2 large  loops. Don't hold me to this though but it did come from a reliable source!!

Ah, inside information, excellent. As long as they don't move it to Yorkshire I should be ok... 

Oh Postie that is baaad news - you promised me a flat course! 

duck - it isn't very hilly round nottinghamshire at all really, so it isn't going to be 'hard'

guys as a biking numpty who hates hills what sort of climbing is there in this here event I've foolishly entered?

anyone got a profile??

*worried*

EP - I don't think they have released the bike route yet, but generally it isn't hilly.