Velo29 Events
Cento Miglia Sportive
Long Route
9 May 2026
HQ Kirk Deighton Rangers Junior Football Club,
Weatherby,
LS22 5NB
Stats
Distance: 162km
Elevation: 2,457m
Ride Time: 7hrs
Start Time:07:30 – 08:00
Feeds: x3
Price: £40
The Monday before the sportive at 6pm, you will receive a ‘Get Ready’ email which contains information about the sportive.
On Tuesday at 10am, you will receive an ‘Act Now’ email which contains the links you need to obtain your rider number and booking reference in order to complete the Pre-Event Questionnaire and Book a Time Slot.
Booking opens from 10am Tuesday until 18:00 Thursday. This is ESSENTIAL to ride.
It is vitally important that you remain subscribed to our emails. However, copies will also be uploaded to our FB page which you do not need a FB account to access.
No entries on the day.
Entries close on Sunday night 1 week before the event.
For any questions relating to Pre-Event Questionnaire or Time Slot Booking email depart@velo29.com
Centino Milgia means 100 miles in Italian, so the long route is……100 miles!
We think this is an awesome new route, one that is suitably challenging, but battling uphill isn’t the only headline of this great day out.
The new HQ at Kirk Deighton is super accessible from the A1M at Wetherby. Loads of parking and great facilities. We soon ride away from any form of busyness and get out onto some wonderful Velo29 style lanes. Lots of twisting and turning, lots of villages, hedges, fields and undulations as we pedal towards feed 1 at Fewston.
It’s mostly uphill to the first feed stop, but nothing dramatic, after the feed, things get a lot more serious! The 8km climb to Greenhow is the first big challenge in this ride! We’ve never been up Greenhow this way before; it’s a very different ascent to the one used in The Beast and the original Ripon Tour, where we climb out of Patley Bridge.
From Greenhow, it’s a rapid descent into Patley Bridge and a hard left where we say ‘goodbye’ to the medium route riders and head North towards the locally infamous but little known Wath Bank. Step, irrigation rutts, 90-degree turn to start the climb, you’ll know about this one!
The views on the Dales tops are stunning in May; you’ll (probably) think the climb was worth it.
Another feed stop, a fast and exciting descent of Lofthouse, around the water and back to Patley Bridge. We climb out of Patley, then a lumpy ride through Glass Houses and Summer Bridge back towards home.
The final feed at Fewston has a famous Velo29 ‘post feed climb’ before another great descent, this time to Lindley and the reservoir, which we ride around before climbing to Alncliff Crag, then downhill all the way back to Kirk Deighton and an awesome new finishers medal!
A great ride, challenging as always, loads of fun, some brilliant new roads and another medal for the collection.
