Mint Gravel is a 160km ↔︎ 3900m ↕︎ mixed-terrain loop around South Lakeland. It's roughly half road and half 'northern gravel', so good for a hardtail MTB, gravel, or even CX bike. I put it together as a challenging long day out, but it'd also work split over a couple of days with some decent wild-camping spots round and about the half-way point.
As for the event, there'll be a 'group start' at 6am on Saturday 15th June from Gooseholme Bridge in Kendal with the intention of meeting up back there again that evening, but beyond that the ride is open to interpretation. Smash it out; slow and steady till you're done; do as much as you can in X hours then bail; bivvy out … whatever. My hope is just that we have folk doing the same route at the same time so as to have some shared experience of riding what may be somewhere new or a bit different to many.
As an idea of what to expect, the current FKT for the loop is 12½ hours. It's taken me ~16 hours and by way of comparison last year's BB200 took me 21 hours.
I've a handful of non-Boners up for it already and the more the merrier! So, who's in?
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