LEJOG 2024

[puffin]

I've just cleared it with all concerned, and I'm OK to do LEJOG starting 9th May, getting back in time for a wedding (usually these days I'm invited to funerals). Just prior to leaving, to help an old friend fulfill an ambition I'm building a C2C Return into my training. No kidding, I did C2C Return this year after LEJOG...it was horrible.

Mrs. Puffin is yet again going to bring the dogs all the way up to JOG (she is a legend), and we plan to stop with friends for one night then head south for a holiday in the Lake District. We have two border collies which rather limits holiday options.

Routing will be much the same, Camelford, Tiverton, Chew Magna. Ross on Wye, Much Wenlock, Bucklow, Slaidburn, Armathwaite, innerleithen, Perth, somewhere, Inverness, Crask...then the big stretch to JOG. Normally I do the last stretch in two legs. All this is subject to accommodation.

[Paulatic]

Fascinating news leads me to a few questions.
Are you chasing a number of times LEJOG ridden record?
You look to have your route of pat but do ever consider anything totally different like e.g. the cycle.travel route?
Have you ever considered JOGLE and reason for not doing it. You must by now have a mental record of the number of headwind days you get doing it early in the year.
Is there nowhere else in the U.K. you’d like to cycle for a couple of weeks. My lasting memory of my LEJOG is constant traffic noise on the first few days even when miles from a main road.

Enjoy your C2C Crawley Bank is good training I suppose but once was enough for me. No wonder there’s a defibrillator on the side of the road. I’ve subsequently gone via Rookhope.

[puffin]

Fascinating news leads me to a few questions.
Are you chasing a number of times LEJOG ridden record?
You look to have your route of pat but do ever consider anything totally different like e.g. the cycle.travel route?
Have you ever considered JOGLE and reason for not doing it. You must by now have a mental record of the number of headwind days you get doing it early in the year.
Is there nowhere else in the U.K. you’d like to cycle for a couple of weeks. My lasting memory of my LEJOG is constant traffic noise on the first few days even when miles from a main road.

Enjoy your C2C Crawley Bank is good training I suppose but once was enough for me. No wonder there’s a defibrillator on the side of the road. I’ve subsequently gone via Rookhope.

Hi again Paul, thanks for posting some excellent and thought provoking questions.

I've done JOGLE one year, it was much the same for me as LEJOG as the winds were light when I did it. About the record for LEJOG / JOGLE, I'm not sure if there is one. I've done 12 so far.

Huge thanks for pointing me to the cycle.travel page, it really is a deep mine of information and ideas. I especially like the Easy East Coast Route, even as we speak I am trying to break the route down into individual days. I'll let you know how I get on.

I'm trying to work out where Crawley Bank is, can you give me a pointer?

Best wishes and thanks again.

[roubaixtuesday]

Fascinating news leads me to a few questions.
Are you chasing a number of times LEJOG ridden record?
You look to have your route of pat but do ever consider anything totally different like e.g. the cycle.travel route?
Have you ever considered JOGLE and reason for not doing it. You must by now have a mental record of the number of headwind days you get doing it early in the year.
Is there nowhere else in the U.K. you’d like to cycle for a couple of weeks. My lasting memory of my LEJOG is constant traffic noise on the first few days even when miles from a main road.

Enjoy your C2C Crawley Bank is good training I suppose but once was enough for me. No wonder there’s a defibrillator on the side of the road. I’ve subsequently gone via Rookhope.

Hi again Paul, thanks for posting some excellent and thought provoking questions.

I've done JOGLE one year, it was much the same for me as LEJOG as the winds were light when I did it. About the record for LEJOG / JOGLE, I'm not sure if there is one. I've done 12 so far.

Huge thanks for pointing me to the cycle.travel page, it really is a deep mine of information and ideas. I especially like the Easy East Coast Route, even as we speak I am trying to break the route down into individual days. I'll let you know how I get on.

I'm trying to work out where Crawley Bank is, can you give me a pointer?

Best wishes and thanks again.

Probably Crawleyside bank?

https://cyclinguphill.com/100-climbs/crawleyside/

[Paulatic]

Yes I mean Crawleyside just by Stanhope.

[puffin]

Thanks guys, found it. Yuk!

My route was a lot south, I went from Morecambe to Shipsea (a non-descript kind of failing cliff on a beach). Because of time constraints I was there for less than five minutes. I only picked it because it was inline with my route.

[Paulatic]

Ah, you did a WotR not C2C.

[puffin]

There's a difference???? Oh great, now I've got to do C2C!

[puffin]

Accommodation all sorted! Only 160 days to go.....

Doing 21 miles today. A weird 21 miles...I have to cycle out to a yard, put my bike in a horsebox, drive the horsebox to a garage, then get my bike out and cycle home.

[puffin]

A very good friend of mine wants to do C2C so I have built it into my LEJOG training programme...it'll get me some hills under my belt. I won't draw attention to the fact that we're doing WotR, its still going from coast to coast.

[Mick F]

. About the record for LEJOG / JOGLE, I'm not sure if there is one. I've done 12 so far.

Have you done the double? LEJOGJOGLE?
What about doing an End2End on a Raleigh Chopper!

One of our number on here lives in York, and he did a Yetey ........... York to LE, then to JOG, and then back to York.

[Mick F]

PS:

I did a Grand Tour.
Took the train to Inverness, and rode across west and over the Bealach to Applecross and then via Torridon, then worked my way over to Skye and down through SW Scotland and over the North Pennines to the North Yorkshire coast, then west via Rosedale Chimney and Ripon and into Lancashire. Then south into Wales and down the west coast via Snowdonia and SE through mid Wales and then south back home to Cornwall.

1,500miles

[puffin]

PS:

I did a Grand Tour.
Took the train to Inverness, and rode across west and over the Bealach to Applecross and then via Torridon, then worked my way over to Skye and down through SW Scotland and over the North Pennines to the North Yorkshire coast, then west via Rosedale Chimney and Ripon and into Lancashire. Then south into Wales and down the west coast via Snowdonia and SE through mid Wales and then south back home to Cornwall.

1,500miles

OK, that is out of my league!

[puffin]

Final piece of the jigsaw just inserted! Got my train ticket including bike reservation! 98 days to go. I'm going first class because I'm old and need my creature comforts. Accommodation is still as per the opening post except I'm passing the wonderful Crask Inn to a place some miles ahead to give me a shorter but still long last day.

My legendary long suffering wife and our dog, down to one now , are meeting me at JOG, then a stay with good friends followed by five days in the Lake District.

[sparnel]

Hi Puffin - been reading your posts and well done on getting your arrangements well to the fore.
Two of us are planning a June start from LE. Can I ask did you find accommodation easy to get on the route
you have planned? Perhaps we should firm up on some dates and get booked!