Scotland : Shetland Braw Lads Baw Breaker 23/06/2013 Galashiels

[edindave]

Anyone doing this?

Seems very good value at £15, and is open for entry up until 21/06/2013.

Copy and Paste from the EntryCentral site below; click here to go to it:-

Beautifully brutal!

The Third year of the Braw Lads Baw Breaker, one of the highest rated sportives of 2012, allows the option of two distances: 50 miles and 109 miles. Starting in the Scottish Borders town of Galashiels the route rolls along the quiet back roads to Innerleithen, Heriot, and Stow. From Stow you encounter the famous hill climb used for the club's Time Trial and 2012 Scottish National Hill Climb Championship. It’s relatively short but do not under estimate it! From the top you continue to Langshaw, Earlston and climb to the stunning vantage point of Scotts View. Please slow down to take pleasure in the view of the Eildon Hills as you will get closer to them later in the day. Enjoy the descent through Dryburgh and head for St Boswells and Maxton. The route now winds itself past Nisbet heading for Morebattle and Hownam. From here you have some significant climbs over to Jedburgh and Lanton. Finally the route heads home via Denholm, Lilliesleaf, Midlem, the Eildon Hills and Melrose. The short route heads back to Galashiels from Langshaw.

Start and Finish at Focus Centre Galashiels, with parking, changing rooms, and showers post event. Feeding stations on both routes and also available after finishing the event. Suitable for all with a basic level of fitness.

Short 50 mile route £15
Long 109 mile route £15

Venue HQ: Focus Centre Galashiels.
Registration:from 7:00am
Start Times:between 08:00am and 09:00pm

 

[tug benson]

Thats great value..going to look into it

 

[tug benson]

Long route looks a good route

 

[edindave]

Yep, I'm up for that one, have marked the date on the calendar. Woohoo!

 

[Rasmus]

Looks like a good event, but I'll be in the West End of town watching the pros that day.

One to remember for next year, though.

 

[Waspie]

I did it last year and have signed up for it again.

I thought it was really good, especially for the money. Worth doing I would say. Nice atmosphere to the event, quite obvious it is run by a cycling club rather than some big organisation for profit.

Got quite tough in the second half of the ride, some nasty hills, the one heading straight out of Jedburgh springs to mind. http://app.strava.com/segments/1469478

You also have the climb out of Stow earlier on which is used for the national hill climb championships.

 

[Seamab]

This looks like a great ride and cheap too for a sportive. Might have brought me out of sportive retirement as there's a lot of new roads there for me - but i can't make the date.

 

[edindave]

I did it last year and have signed up for it again.

I thought it was really good, especially for the money. Worth doing I would say. Nice atmosphere to the event, quite obvious it is run by a cycling club rather than some big organisation for profit.

Got quite tough in the second half of the ride, some nasty hills, the one heading straight out of Jedburgh springs to mind. http://app.strava.com/segments/1469478

You also have the climb out of Stow earlier on which is used for the national hill climb championships.

Nice one, will hopefully get to meet you on the day

I've also had a glowing recommendation from another friend who did it last year.

This looks like a great ride and cheap too for a sportive. Might have brought me out of sportive retirement as there's a lot of new roads there for me - but i can't make the date.

Pity you can't make it Seamab

 

[Waspie]

Nice one, will hopefully get to meet you on the day

I've also had a glowing recommendation from another friend who did it last year.



Pity you can't make it Seamab

I'll be the guy on matt black Focus going backwards on the steep hills.