There is a phrase in the Irish language, In Éirinn tá Neart – ‘In Ireland there is strength’, and it’s hard to think of a more apt description of the TransAtlantic Way. To tame every corner, every climb, every cliff-clinging road of this event takes the deepest resolve and resourcefulness. Over the course of this week-long, self-supported expedition, riders will not only be required to climb the equivalent of Everest three times over, they’ll find themselves sleeping under Gaelic football stands, foraging for food and sheltering in hedges, all in the name of conquering Ireland’s wildest roads.
Setting out from Derry under the shadow of the Peace Bridge, riders pedal from the tip of Donegal, past the Gaeltacht, through Connemara and around the Ring of Kerry before a final push along the south coast that will (hopefully) see them finish in Kinsale. As ultracycling goes, you’d be hard pushed to find a tougher event anywhere on the British Isles.
The TransAtlantic Way offers up two routes. The longer, named after Gaelic folk hero Cú Chulainn, is a 2,400km odyssey
