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Swift Nick's ride
320 km
A highwayman's ride from Kent to York by sunset.
Ride 320 km. About as far as the legend says he rode.
- It stands on
- Athens to Sparta
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Athens to Sparta
- Weekly distance
- About 300 km of riding a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long weekends
- About 9 hours 15 minutes of riding over two days in a row, 4 times in the last 12 weeks
- Longest ride
- At least 6 hours 15 minutes, at least once in the last 12 weeks
- Taper
- Two easier weeks before the event week
The story
Legend says a highwayman robbed a traveller at Gad's Hill in Kent early one morning in 1676. He then rode about 200 miles to York by sunset, to give himself an alibi. Defoe told it, and later writers gave it to Dick Turpin. Source: Defoe, A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain.
The ladder
- Fox's crossing/
- Thirty-miler/
- Mauna Loa 1859/
- Kailash kora/
- Chilkoot/
- Jouett's ride/
- Iron Riders' day/
- Birkebeiner/
- Edge of space/
- Hundred and one/
- Pony Express/
- Century/
- Brighton and back/
- Pilgrim's 200/
- Athens to Sparta/
- Swift Nick's ride