Well, finished the coast to coast yesterday.....

[alans]

Well done. Doing your first coast to coast gives a real sense of achievement
Plenty of others to consider, Hadrians way, Way of the Roses & Trans Pennine Trail, all probably easier too

& this

http://reivers-route.co.uk/

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Well done. Very well done.

 

[Cubist]

 

[Soltydog]

Crawleyside was the killer hill for me. Hartside and Winlatter are just long drags.

Agree with that. I ended up walking part of Crawleyside & still had to stop for a breather whilst walking

 

[anyuser]

Well done, planning to do it at the end of June

 

[0lonerider]

Route 72 is Hadrians (with no climbs as bad a whinlatter and hartside) the C2C is route 71.

Well done especially with no training! I'm doing a combination of 71 and 72 (via 68) at the end of june and trying to get training now.

i wasnt compairing how hard the each route is!
i said it is a FUN ride! doable in a day if your in a hurry!
some guy did route 72 +c2c loop from tynemouth in less than 24 hours 2years ago!.
enjoy your ride.

 

[Richard Fairhurst]

Whitehaven to tynemouth...broken and battered.....rain and hailstone most of the way...... with no training.......utter hell.

Commiserations. It was pouring down for most of my ride last year, too. Almost rear-ended another cyclist going up Crawleyside - I had my head firmly down and didn't think anyone could be going slower than me, but I was wrong. Ooops.

Lots of great routes in the North of England - don't restrict yourself just to the C2C. Hadrian's is fun but the Pennine Cycleway (NCN 68) is the real epic IMO.

 

[DefBref]

@olonerider, sorry thought you were talking about the C2C, the mention of route 72 seemed to come out of nowhere.

Yes it is doable in a day, I did it last year from whitehaven to newcastle. http://app.strava.com/activities/76457463 Not quite the full length from ravenglass but a good day out anyway,

 

[AndyRM]

cheers everyone...to be fair i dont think if i done fourty miles a day it wouldnt have made any difference... there are no mountains round me to train on...its like peddling up a wall......whinlatter forrest was worse than hartside in my eyes.... i had at least three "i quit tantrums" all weekend

Get yourself out to Northumberland - plenty hills to train on.

 

[ste.pearson]

Congrats and well done i am hoping for decent weather next month when i do it,but given where you go you would have to be very lucky not to get any rain at all

 

[Angry Blonde]

I think its winter conditions at hartside all year round

 

[Andy_R]

Get yourself out to Northumberland - plenty hills to train on.

Don't even bother with County Durham - we all know it's perfectly flat.

 

[AndyRM]

Don't even bother with County Durham - we all know it's perfectly flat.

As a pancake

 

[theloafer]

@Angry Blonde congrats hun ... well done

 

[Geoff Crowther]

Crawleyside was the killer hill for me. Hartside and Winlatter are just long drags.

Totally agree with this.