Events

Be Your Adventures is excited to be bringing new events to your door throughout 2023

The Southern Divide – Spring Edition

11-14 & 11-16 May 2023

A spectacular mixed terrain route across the Southern Divide

A challenging self-sufficient multiday adventure from Land’s End to London.

This gravel adventure takes in the stunning scenery of Cornwall, Dartmoor, Dorset and Wiltshire, and then finishes off in the woodlands, moorlands and river trails of the home counties towards London.

One route, two time limits. Will you choose the challenge or the tourist ride?

Entries for next year’s event will open 31st Oct 2022

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The Southern Divide – Autumn Edition

21-24 & 21-26 September 2023

A brand new route, exactly the same format.

This time, you will experience the amazing Jurassic coast and the glorious gravel of the New Forest. We have a new route into London, this time via Hampshire and Surrey, but still ending at Hampton Wick.

Details to follow early in 2023

The Polar Express 500

28-29 December 2023

Wrapping the annual Rapha 500 challenge into 1 long ride.

500km – 36 hours – choice of routes – central hub (Polar HQ)

Frozen North or Wet & Windy South options available

More details will be published summer 2023

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Monday - @natalievs__ played it cool on Sunday, listened to her body and opted to aim for a hotel in Newbury, leaving her recovered for the relatively straightforward job of the final and fun run into London for Monday morning. It was a plan that worked out well for her. She has had a run of bad luck in this year’s events, and so finishing was a really important goal for her. You can see & hear her joy of knowing that it was mission accomplished with more than a day in hand. Sunday - our final Sunday finisher, and first Tourist rider back was @sam0_0wall. Like Adrian he decided that a head down no stopping effort might enable him to make a Sunday finish instead of the Monday arrival he envisaged the day before. Although he had been riding with Nat, she had decided she needed to slow her pace a little, and so from Salisbury he was on a mission and ‘one day mode’. Doing a personal time trial to the end he arrived in darkness but just 20 mins outside the challenge ride cut off, meaning over 2 days to spare in his category. Sunday - 2nd to finish just before sunset was @adrianjuttley. I waited for him along the Thames path to ride in with him to the finish. He had put in a serious effort to make it back before the time cut, having woken up just after 4am to crack on to the finish. No nice relaxing hotels in Newbury for him, it was just head down to the end. His partner and son were waiting at the end for him. Sunday - Niels strategy to get to Newbury and chill on Saturday night paid off. We had a chat as I caught up with him on Greenham Common in the morning before he headed of on a surprisingly gravel laden off road route into London, which he loved. Between 3 & 4 pm it suddenly got busy at CP3 @abbotstearoom_bedandbreakfast in CerneAbbas. Although they technically closed at 4, they were happy to serve and let our tired riders stay a while before we see them into the evening. Plans for the stage were made, in the knowledge that there was a bit more Dorset Hell to go. But that once the past the Dorsetshire Gap things would finally start to get a little easier. Our remaining 5 riders were spread out across Devon, Dorset & Wiltshire. Late Friday night @nielcopeland made it to CP3 (now in the pub across the road), and the first beer was on me as I had said he wouldn’t make it in time for last orders. I was wrong! Yes it does happen occasionally. After hydration he disappeared into the cold night to get to a campsite at the top of the hill. My camper was waiting for me. A longer sleep was finally on the cards as everyone else had stopped to sleep. It was the views that stole the show between CP1 & CP3, which was just as well , as there were a few brutal hike-a-bike sections to get the rewards. Devon & Dorset are as stunningly beautiful as they are tough to ride, and riders were faced with no let up to the rise & fall in the contours of the land. The number of rider photos in this section is testament to how many wow moments they had along the way. This ride tries to balance pain with gain, thankfully the riders agreed…eventually.
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