South Coast Ride Route

Here is the route for next month's 'side to side' ride. Oficially, we're calling it the South Coast Ride. For the first couple of days it follows one of the standard LE-JOG routes from Land's End and across Dartmoor to Moretonhampstead. After that it runs further south, staying reasonably close to the coast as far as Poole. It crosses to the Isle of Wight (Lymington to Yarmouth) on day 6 and returns to the mainland (Fishbourne to Portsmouth) on day 7. The last three days again follow as close to the coast as practically possible. In the following table, you can click the name of each sector to see a map of that day's actual track. The routes are all posted at MapMyRide.com. A low resolution summary route is also available.

Date	Sector	Distance	Total
2-Sep	Land's End to St Blazey	59.8	59.8
3-Sep	St Blazey to Moretonhampstead	54.5	114.3
4-Sep	Moretonhampstead to Bridport	58.9	173.1
5-Sep	Bridport to Bournemouth	72.8	245.9
6-Sep	Bournemouth to Lymington and
	Yarmouth to Wroxall	46.7	292.6
7-Sep	Wroxall to Bognor Regis	52.5	345.1
8-Sep	Bognor Regis to Eastbourne	57.0	402.1
9-Sep	Eastbourne to New Romney	55.2	457.3
10-Sep	New Romney to North Foreland	53.6	510.9
11-Sep	Around North Foreland	9.9	520.9

There are small discrepancies between the distances reported in the tracks in MapMyRide.com and in this table. I used the data from my bike's computer for the table. The distances at MapMyRide.com are from the GPS tracks. These are usually within about 0.5% of one another. Where the difference is greater, it is due to us having meandered around a town or city looking for specific shops. I removed the meanders from the tracks themselves.