FANCY A CARFREE WELSH WEEKENDER?

Like a triathlon, but split over three days, Wales’Long Course Weekend will mark its first decade with car-freeride

A festival that takes its toll on your legs and not your liver, the Long Course Weekend (July 5-7th) hosts three days of swimming, cycling, and running in beautiful Pembrokeshire. To celebrate the event’s first 10 years, this year the bicycle leg is going traffic-free. A stand-alone event run on Saturday, it offers distances of 112, 70, and 42 miles. However, for the truly tough, it’s just one-third of a very long weekend. Kicking off with a dip in the sea on Friday, and ending with a run on Sunday. Anyone completing the maximum distances on each day will have managed the equivalent of an Ironman over the three days. That’s a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile cycle, and a full marathon. Attracting around 12,000 athletes, competitors often choose to compete…

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Bikes Etc (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2019

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