A big one to watch

[frank9755]

Interesting that in the curvecycling blog there is a route map. It appears to show a route East of Manchester. I would have thought that wasn't the quickest route (that's via Preston, West of Manchester isn't it?)

Or maybe the embedded map isn't the route he took?

Correct, it's not the route he took. It turns out it's a screengrab from a guy who posted his route on LFGSS three years ago! Kristof actually took a fairly standard racing route, on the A6 west of the Pennines, etc. He spotted it here