Course preview for the Tour Of Cambridgeshire Time Trial.
Britain’s Biggest Cycling Festival.
This is the 'Race of Truth'. You against the clock under professional racing conditions.
Feel like a pro at the Time Trial (TT), with a full produced start area including a start ramp, professional commentary and 16.4 miles of racing on closed roads. The TT is the UK’s biggest time trial.
The fully produced TT start area includes a ramp, sound and lighting, professional commentary and a countdown clock. Riders are set off individually at 20-second intervals.
It may be Cambridgeshire, but our 16.4 mile (26.3km) Time Trial Route is not entirely flat. The route climbs 837 feet (250m) and wind could be an issue.
You start inside the East of England Showground with one of the Tour Makers will hold you until you roll down the ramp, starting the clock as you exit the arena. Some sharp bends will challenge your handling skills as you wind between the barriers, through the Tour of Cambridgeshire site and onto public roads, which are fully closed for the duration of the event.
ROUTE DESCRIPTION
You head west first then turn left off the main road, and while the road undulates slightly you’re ascending very gently for the opening four miles (6.4km).
You’ll then drop down to a 90º left hander where the day’s steepest challenge looms ahead of you. With two prominent transmitters, Morborne Hill can be seen for miles, but you’ll be busy tackling a few metres with gradients exceeding 10%.
Keep pedalling on the descent and stay aero on the drops or extensions, even on the slight dig into Folksworth. The double bend through the village is downhill and fast, take care, the surface isn’t great, and the road then drags out of the village.
Turn right and you should fly down and through Washingley, then you drive hard up two ramps to the highest point on the course. If it’s windy you’ll hit it here, and when you turn right for the run final six mile for home it’ll be constant companion.
Two miles later you’ll drop down a poorly surfaced ramp to the bottom of Morborne Hill, after which you retrace your earlier wheel tracks home.
5 сен 2024
