Course Finishers
COLIN JAMES
Started from Silloth
Route: KP – K – A – SRP – SS – CH – RA – B – BP – S
JOHN BASTON
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
MARK SMITH
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
MIKE SHELDRAKE
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
JAMIE OLIVER
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
WILL SCHRIMSHAW
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: CH – RA – B – BP – S – K – KP – A – SRP – SS
TOM DOWNES
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: CH – RA – B – BP – S – KP – K – A – SRP – SS
OLIVER HAYWOOD
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SRP – SS
ALAN MORTON
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
CAROLINE FRY
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
RACHEL BATT & JIM STEWART
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
JAMES MILNE
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
BRADLEY WOODRUFFE :
Started from Sheaf Square.
Route: SRP – CH – RA – B – BP – S – KP – K – A – SS
CHRIS WOODS :
Route: SS – SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH
PAUL PEARCE :
Route: SS – SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH
IAN LYONS :
Route: SS – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SRP
ALAN STEELE
Started from Silloth
Route: KP – K – A – SRP – SS – CH – RA – B – BP – S
JULIE & SIMON BULLEN :
Started from Sheaf Square.
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
CAROLINE SOUBAYROUX :
Started from Sheaf Square
Route: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP – B – RA – CH – SS
DNF
LUKE COLLINS : Started from Berwick Pier.
Controls reached: S – KP – K – A – SRP – SS – CH – RA
IAN CAPLETON : Started from Sheaf Square.
Controls reached: SRP – A – K – KP – S – BP
RICHARD SANDERSON : Started at Berwick Pier.
Controls reached: S – SS – CH – RA – B – BP
KIM HINCHCIFFE : Started from Sheaf Square.
Controls reached: SRP – A – K – KP – S
NEIL EATON : Started from Studley Royal Park
Controls reached: A – K – KP – S
FIONA RIDLEY : Started from Sheaf Square.
Controls reached: SRP – A – K
NICKY SHAW : Started from Studley Royal Park
Controls reached: A – K – BP
NORMAN COOPER :
Controls reached: BP – RA – CH
SARAH FREEMAN :
Controls reached: SRP – A
ALEX EDGE : Started from Sheaf Square.
Controls reached: SRP
CONTROL LOCATIONS KEY
A – Arncliffe
BP – Berwick Pier
B – Blanchland
CH – Castle Howard
K – Keld
KP – Kirkstone Pass
RA – Rosedale Abbey
SS – Sheaf Square
S – Silloth
SRP – Studley Royal Park
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#notapn20 finished but not complete. Started at Berwick, 3am Saturday morning. Across to Silloth. Then plugged south until getting drowned by the weather I called it day one and headed for my prebooked digs in Harrogate. Sunday I decided to continue as planned rather than filling the gaps, so. South for Sheaf Square, then Castle Howard and finally Rosedale Abbey before bedding down in Darlington for the night. Today Blanchland and back to to Berwick - nice to see it in the daylight 😄 allpointsnorth.cc a.different.gear
After hoping to ride another event this year, as my first multi day event, I was reignited when I saw All Points North was still being being held in a different form the one week I’m on holiday, and open to all. It wasn’t on my radar (3 days ride time is not me) but now it is! Just got an early train up from Bristol so here I go. Apparently evidence has to go on insta!
Roughly 1000km and 10000m around 10 controls inc Sheffield Sheaf Sq, Silloth and Berwick upon Tweed and back to Sheffield
I’m riding Not All Points North touring style. Aiming for 6 days 3 booked campsites, 2 wild camping. I’ll find out if my knee holds out after damaging it at the end of my “test” ride on #LonLasCymru 3 weeks ago.
CP 1 Sheaf Square, Sheffield
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CP10 Sheffield, 03:48
Guess I'm a badass ultra distance cyclist now huh?
3 days, 18 hours, 12 minutes
1024km/11735m elevation
More pics/thoughts/stats for you soon 🙂 Thank you for all the support, it means a great deal to me.
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CP3 Arnicliffe Yesterday went very pear shaped but today is another day.
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A bit of a post Not All Points North 2020 event wash up blog post on where I went wrong. Hopefully next time I get it right and finish.
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Not CP5 Kirkstone Pass Inn
I’m out, too wet, too cold
Rain started 5am and I was wild camping high up above Kendal and M6.
Did Not Finish Not All Points North is a double negative, so I did finish right?!
That rain was not light it was torrential.
Kudos to everyone else, I was supposed to be in Toutbeck last night after Kirkstone and Kielder Forest tonight after Silloth.
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Been keeping this on the down low but can now confirm I'm about to set off on #NotAPN20. For the uninitiated, this basically involves riding my bike a long way round the north of England. allpointsnorth.cc was originally due to take place in May but was sadly cancelled due to Covid. This weekend was announced as an opportunity to ride one's planned route and much deliberation has occurred over whether to do it: lack of motivation, doubting myself, last minute decision means I haven't spent as much time as I'd like route planning, blah blah blah. I've also just come back from a mad week working in Devon. But last weekend I made a secret promise to myself that if I came back from Devon feeling vaguely ok then I'd have a pop at it and I know I'd kick myself if I let the opportunity pass me by. So here goes, wish me luck and a tailwind and I'll (hopefully) be back in a few days 🙂 (I won't be using a tracker but I'll try post some progress pics on here.) #rideupnorth #ridefar #endurancecycling #packlighttravelfar #fromwhereiride #roadslikethese
CP1, Studley Royal. 110km down. The wind has been quite sapping and it was very stoppy starty coming out of Sheffield and through Pontefract/Castleford with an an abundance of roundabouts and temporary traffic lights but feel like I got into a bit more of a rhythm once I hit some familiar roads. I chose this particular route up from Sheffield to Wetherby because it's one Dad and I did on a glorious sunny evening last year so I was trying to channel those happy memories 🙂 now heading west into the Dales and into a whopping headwind 🙃 #NotAPN20 #rideupnorth #fromwhereiride
CP7 Blanchland, 01:19
Had a decent stop in Amble (check out that sunset!) and felt alright so cracked on. Running total 720km. Had a quick sleep, Rosedale next, everything hurts.
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The view from my tent at 6am this morning. You know those romantic sunrise bikepacking photos of someone holding a brew and gazing at the beauty. Not for me this morning. Had 2 hours of dry weak sun last night. That’s my lot. Pi%%ing it down again. Too wet to attempt a brew.
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#notapn20 swag 🤘
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North Yorkshire Moors; brutal, beautiful, brilliant ...on a bike 🚲
northyorkmoors #northyorkshiremoors
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And back in Sheffield #notapn20 a.different.gear allpointsnorth.cc #rideupnorth #allpointsnorth #colddarknorth #mykinesis #apidura #exposurelights
#notapn20 ‘Most useful tip’
Real Food 🥧🍌🥯🧇
(Rather than over-priced wonder-products; bars & gels etc, in plastic wrappers).
My wife’s flapjack recipe included here. ‘Not All Points North’ riders should just have enough time to knock up a batch of these 👨🍳 🥄 before they head off on their 🚲 rides tomorrow.
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Gail force winds and and driving hail stones on this climb, loving my little detour. I’m on holiday and it’s not a race I’m told. #allpointsnorth #notapn20 allpointsnorth.cc #colddarknorth #windandrain #hail #northpennines
Finally finished his “surprise” Christmas present on 1.1.21 He said the surprise would be if it was done for his 60th in 4 1/2 years. After having to 🐸 in October the second attempt took 2 months Even an extra long body not that long. Stripes winged. Warm husband.
Evocative as Cumbria yarn names of places I’ve visited on my bike this summer. Yarn purchased in Skipton in September after failing #notapn20 Lovely day out with laurajridley though 🥰
Good straightforward all in one pattern, very little sewing up/ends to sew in.
The last sweater I knitted him was 32 years ago when we were students. He still has it.
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CP5 Silloth, 19:51
Nice to see the sea!
Hitting the Co-op for snacky tea then a few more miles before sleep. #NotAPN20
CP8 Rosedale, 16:00
North York Moors: beautiful but brutal. I am done with % gradient signs and false summits!! It's nice to see the sun but it's come out absolutely boiling and I keep sweating off my suncream, gonna be a crispy lil potato later. 860km in the bag.
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Checkpoint 3 #notapn20 - Keld - 82 miles
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Lighthouses (and escorting flocks of Goldfinches) to guide 🚲 riders between these two #allpointsnorth #notapn20 checkpoints:
•The East Cote lighthouse, Silloth was established in 1841, as a navigational aid for shipping proceeding to and from the quays at Annan and Port Carlisle – it initially shone a red light out over the Solway. It currently shines a fixed green light down the Silloth approach channel. 🟢
•Berwick-upon-Tweed lighthouse was built in 1826. The original light was oil; and showed two fixed lights; a fixed white visible 12 miles and a fixed red visible 8 miles. Today the lighthouse shows a fixed green light to landward at 28 feet above high water and a flash to seaward every 5 seconds at 48 feet above high water, visible for 10 miles. 🟢💡
Hope I get this far on my 🚲 ride 🤞🏼 ...so good to enjoy new roads and new sights
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Not quite would I had planned for a Thursday night but then again I had no plans! #notapn20 SO let's make a start.... komoot allpointsnorth.cc
Not All Points North blog part 2 is up - link in bio 🙂
📷 Buttertubs in the rain
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CP10 - Castle Howard
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Final checkpoint ticked off, now back to Sheffield to finish.
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Back on the bike this evening after a week off recovering from (not) allpointsnorth.cc - still feeling pretty tired and got a couple of niggles but it was a lovely evening and... you can't go wrong with a cheeky Redmires. 😍 #fromwhereiride #theoutdoorcity #NotAPN20
‘Not All Points North’ 2020
For completeness:
I have added the Dolphins (Bottlenose I think), seen off the pier at Berwick-upon-Tweed, to my picture of the coast to coast leg of #notapn20 . Just one of many highlights. Another very vividly memorable part of the ride for wildlife, was the moonlit journey from home into the Dales in the early hours of Saturday; owls hooting and gliding overhead, hedgehogs investigating the road carrion (while hopefully not becoming part of it themselves), rabbit & deer eyes reflecting in my front light.
Perhaps less interesting, some detail and numbers from my route & ride. 🤔...not exactly sure how long this ride was. Route I planned was 572 miles and 38,000 ft of ascent. Maps of my actual route seem to have cut off two sections (one because I forgot to turn my Garmin on 🤯; the other, a big chunk in Cumbria, which I’m not completely sure why didn’t record). On the other hand, I added distance to the original planned route by getting lost & a closed-bridge detour south of Selby (all caused/complicated by my device not showing a GPS route for the last 200 miles of my route for some reason, despite still working to record the ride - fortunately I know a lot of the roads in Yorkshire). Anyway, the numbers are not too important; it’s more about the journey. Suffice to say, it was quite a long way! 🤣
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Route planning for a bike trip around the North of England; weekend of 5th September 🤔..........this could be a wobbly bike ride #notapn20 #allpintsnorth 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 #allpointsnorth #apn20 allpointsnorth.cc #rideupnorth
“ If you're traveling in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline...”
Route-planning in pen & watercolour, in readiness for a ‘Not All Points North’ 🚲 ride at the weekend. Hope I get this far on my ride, to enjoy new roads and new sights 🤞🏼
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CP6 Berwick-upon-Tweed, 13:05. The most northerly checkpoint! Running total 560km.
Had a couple of hours of torrential rain coming round Carlisle, just about dried out under a hand dryer (thankfully a proper one not a Dyson Airblade!) in a cafe in Newcastleton, then got my head down to push through the Scottish Borders with a sweet sweet tailwind. Hardly saw a single human in Scotland so have reached the talking to sheep stage. Various body parts also starting to twinge a little. Southbound now 🙂
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CP3 Keld. 7:12am. Sorry for the rubbish photo but I was feeling too rough to seek out anything photogenic and just picked something that said Keld on it 😛 Managed a few hours sleep but am having some stomach issues, unsure if it's just the exertion or if I've actually got a bug. Feel like I've been crawling along this morning but I guess there's been a lot of climbing and moving slowly is better than not moving at all. Onwards to the Lakes 🤞🏻 #NotAPN20