[Closed] Long distance off roading

I'd say more than possible but depends on the terrain and conditions. If you can get to Winchester then you can do the SDW route the rest of the way.

that's the plan, sort of wessex way to winchester then SDW

SDW gets hillier towards the end. If you arrive at Winchester with 2 days to go try to do 60/40.

Me and a buddy did it from Weston Super Mare to Eastborne back in 2001.

We used this guidebook- http://www.sustransshop.co.uk/products/5463-wessex-way-mountain-bike-route-pack

That's 1 possibility, but I thought as i live in bristol it would be more peractical to use the track to Pewsey.
How long did it take you?

I'm sure you could adapt the route no problem.

We took a week over it- but I wasn't as fit as I am now.

5 days would be good I think- about 50 miles a day that way.

I rode the Wessex Way in February conditions were awful in some places, enough so that it added hours onto our rides on some days. Although the biggest problem was a lack of training, I was the only rider that put in any effort to train. To the point where the others were completely out of puff 25-30 miles in. It's a nice route though.

We did this the other year, from the other direction. From Winchester we basically headed North across the Salisbury Plain until we picked up the K&A canal path, using bits and pieces of bridleways. The quality of the routes over the Plain was a bit variable and some looked like they'd not been used in years, but I should have a .gpx of it somewhere that I can dig out.

I'd say 50 miles a day is perfectly doable, but be prepared for long days with low average speeds.

Don't know anything about that route, but a good day is normally around 2500m height gain given reasonable terrain. If you have to do a lot of carrying up rock faces, or a total mudfest etc then less than that. The distance normally seems to be irrelivant as long as its around 60-120Km.

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