LEJOG 2025

Specific board for this popular undertaking.
puffin
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Kevin67 wrote: 6 Dec 2024, 7:41pm Can't see your route but happy to help your cheshire bit as I live/ride there
Sorry, my bad

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49201707
Kevin67
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Can't help with the section along the canal but everything else looks good. I have walked sections of it and it varies from a nice wide track to a narrow rutty path.

You've managed to avoid Northwich which is good as its very busy with traffic and generally horrible. The roads and villages to the east are quite nice byley
Lach Dennis pickmere or even Knutsford and go through tatton Park could be an alternative if you want to avoid canals.

I'm in the process of planning myself. Probably going to go the east coast route
Jeremy Bond
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It appears the A30 old road in Cornwall between Chiverton and Carl and will be not be fully operational until the Spring, according to National Highways.
DaveBeck
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Jeremy Bond wrote: 11 Dec 2024, 11:55am It appears the A30 old road in Cornwall between Chiverton and Carl and will be not be fully operational until the Spring, according to National Highways.
Bearing in mind the opening of the new section was put back a few times, I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I drive the new bit regularly and the new bit's not completely finished yet. Some are the bridges across still aren't done and don't look to be progressing particularly quickly. And the old A30 just east of Chiverton cross, where the roundabout used to be still looks to be impassable.

Yesterday when I drove east along a three mile coned off section, there were more of the Highways staff planting trees and gardening than seemed to be working on the bridges.
puffin
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Kevin67 wrote: 11 Dec 2024, 7:49am Can't help with the section along the canal but everything else looks good. I have walked sections of it and it varies from a nice wide track to a narrow rutty path.

You've managed to avoid Northwich which is good as its very busy with traffic and generally horrible. The roads and villages to the east are quite nice byley
Lach Dennis pickmere or even Knutsford and go through tatton Park could be an alternative if you want to avoid canals.

I'm in the process of planning myself. Probably going to go the east coast route
There's an East Coast route???
puffin
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DaveBeck wrote: 12 Dec 2024, 7:19am
Jeremy Bond wrote: 11 Dec 2024, 11:55am It appears the A30 old road in Cornwall between Chiverton and Carl and will be not be fully operational until the Spring, according to National Highways.
Bearing in mind the opening of the new section was put back a few times, I'd take that with a pinch of salt. I drive the new bit regularly and the new bit's not completely finished yet. Some are the bridges across still aren't done and don't look to be progressing particularly quickly. And the old A30 just east of Chiverton cross, where the roundabout used to be still looks to be impassable.

Yesterday when I drove east along a three mile coned off section, there were more of the Highways staff planting trees and gardening than seemed to be working on the bridges.
Thanks for this. Am I going to be OK using the A3095 towards Goonhaven?
Kevin67
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puffin wrote: 13 Dec 2024, 6:29am
Kevin67 wrote: 11 Dec 2024, 7:49am Can't help with the section along the canal but everything else looks good. I have walked sections of it and it varies from a nice wide track to a narrow rutty path.

You've managed to avoid Northwich which is good as its very busy with traffic and generally horrible. The roads and villages to the east are quite nice byley
Lach Dennis pickmere or even Knutsford and go through tatton Park could be an alternative if you want to avoid canals.

I'm in the process of planning myself. Probably going to go the east coast route
There's an East Coast route???
Yes. There is a link on this forum somewhere.
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Whatever I am, wherever I am, this is me. This is my life

https://stcleve.wordpress.com/category/lejog/
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Kevin67
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That's the one
DaveBeck
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Yesterday when I drove east along a three mile coned off section, there were more of the Highways staff planting trees and gardening than seemed to be working on the bridges.
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Thanks for this. Am I going to be OK using the A3095 towards Goonhaven?
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I think you meant the A3075, You should be ok going to Goonhavern, so long as you get on that just east of Blackwater.

Dave B
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DaveBeck wrote: 13 Dec 2024, 10:08pm Yesterday when I drove east along a three mile coned off section, there were more of the Highways staff planting trees and gardening than seemed to be working on the bridges.
Thanks for this. Am I going to be OK using the A3095 towards Goonhaven?
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I think you meant the A3075, You should be ok going to Goonhavern, so long as you get on that just east of Blackwater.

Dave B
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Thanks
puffin
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Yea!! all accommodation booked!, Penzance, Camelford, Cullompton. Chew Magna, Ross on Wye, Much Wenlock, Leigh, Bentham, Brampton, Peebles, Perth, Kingussie, Dingwall, Altnaharra, JOG.

I haven't been on the bike since tearing cartilage in July last year....but have been working hard in the gym so I'm feeling confident.

962 miles, 55700 feet in climbs.
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