Tour de Broads – Winter Challenge Series 2023 – 24
£15.00 – £20.00
TPR Events are thrilled to announce the Tour De Broads Winter Challenge Series. These challenges are designed to build up your mileage over the winter months to be strong and ready for the Summer Tour De Broads and our other events in 2024. Rider packs will not be posted, but can be collected on the day. Enter all three to win a Finance Shop Christmas Hamper on 17th December!
Winter Challenge #1 – 25 miles – Sunday 17th December 2023
Winter Challenge #2 – 35 miles – Saturday 30th December 2023
Winter Challenge #3 – 50 miles – Sunday 14th January 2024
ENTRIES OPEN!
Description
Road cycling is just a summer pastime, right? Oh no, this winter, the Tour de Broads Winter Series is back to keep you motivated in December and January and fill the Christmas season cycling void! Three fully inclusive events, with the usual TPR Events hospitality, three progressively more challenging distances and three bespoke interlocking medals to collect are just three reasons to ride the three events of the 2023 Tour de Broads Winter Series.
Our friends at Finance Shop also share our passion for cycling, keeping active and feeling great this winter. They are offering a delicious Christmas Hamper to be won at the first Winter Series event on 17th December. Just enter all three rides and you could be leaving the first ride with more than just memories of a great day out and our amazing interlinked medal!
Event Date – 17th December 2023, 10am
Location – Whitlingham Country Park
Route Distance – 25 Miles fully signposted, mechanical support, refreshments and warming soup & roll, tasty Adnams Ghost Ship (cheers!), bespoke interlocking medal number 1
Get your miles in before the Christmas rush.
Winter Series No. 2
Event Date – 30 December 2023, 10am
Location – Whitlingham Country Park
Route Distance – 35 Miles fully signposted, mechanical support, refreshments and warming soup & roll, tasty Adnams Ghost Ship (cheers!), bespoke interlocking medal number 2
Post Christmas Miles.
Winter Series No. 3
Event Date – 14th January 2024, 10am
Location – Whitlingham Country Park
Route Distance – 50 Miles fully signposted, mechanical support, refreshments and warming soup & roll, tasty Adnams Ghost Ship (cheers!), bespoke interlocking medal number 3
Winter riding at its best.
As a local employee-owned business, Finance Shop offer mortgage, retirement and investment and tax planning services to their clients. With offices in Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, Finance Shop have our roots firmly in East Anglia but also deal with clients across the country. Why not see what they can do for you and your family by dropping them a line at info@FS-IFA.com
We strongly urge you to ride with lights fitted to your bike. Weather reports are monitored closely on the run up to the event, which will go ahead as planned provided conditions are within tolerance –
Our tolerances are:
Torrential rain, Flooding
Electrical storm, Gales.
wind speed > 40 mph
temperature < 3 degrees
visibility < 5m
A decision will be made by the operational management team if the weather creates too great a risk for the event to proceed, participants will be contacted via email and social media. Final call of cancellation on the Friday before each event, 6pm. Should any event be cancelled due to weather conditions and can not be rescheduled within a reasonable time period, it will revert to a virtual sportive whereby you ride anytime that month, anywhere and complete the challenge distance. Submit your ride to us via email and you will receive your medal in the post, together with a voucher to use on future events.
