It isn't the distance that undoes riders here, it's the climbing. The Grande packs 9,000ft into 110 miles of Dartmoor, with no single giant col. Just steep ramp after steep ramp, all day.
The route
The loop runs out and back from Newton Abbot Racecourse across the open moor. At Princetown the Grande peels off on a Tavistock loop that climbs back to the same feed a second time before the long run-in to the finish.
Late-June, Newton Abbot
Highs around 18°C and lows around 12°C, but it has dropped to 8°C. Rain on 47% of days.
Who finishes, and how
Training for the Dartmoor Classic
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