Registration Period: October 25 to December 25, 2024
Mileage Record Upload Deadline: After successful registration, you must upload your records before 12:00 noon on January 24, 2025.
Event Rules:
Registration: All participants must register and create an account on the official event website. After completing registration and payment, you will receive a confirmation email with your personal electronic bib number.
Route Selection: Participants can choose their preferred cycling routes across Taiwan, without being restricted to the recommended routes.
Riding Requirements: You can accumulate the required kilometers (50km/100km/200km) over a maximum of 20 rides during the event period.
Record Submission: Please upload a screenshot of your riding record (including: kilometers, track map, and completion time) to your account on the event’s official website before the deadline. You can submit up to 20 pictures, each less than 5MB.
Completion Rewards: After submitting your records, you will receive a medal, completion gift, and a physical completion certificate
Started that Ilan/WuLing one last year, started a bit farther S than you and rode to a place just before LiShan and stayed overnight. The 2nd day it was pouring so the group (I couldn’t ride the 2nd day - back pain) rode from LiShan to the tunnel meeting the Hualian/Wuling road and stopped there. Certainly recommend it and want to have another crack at it.
I know the answer is almost certainly ‘no’, but I don’t suppose there’s a separate English language resource for this? I tried using google translate but couldn’t really make sense of it.
Don’t bother. This is just a campaign to promote cycling in Taiwan and National Geographic. I took part in the first edition which focused on Northern Taiwan. All I had to do was take screenshots of my rides on Strava showing the distance. They don’t bother to check if it’s you who completed it. Plus, they only care about the distance. So you might climb 1,000 meters, but since you only rode 40k, you’re on equal footing with someone who rode 40k along the river. In the end, I got a certificate, a T-shirt and a water bottle. Not competitive at all. This might be fun if you’re new to cycling, but if you’ve cycled in Taiwan for a while, don’t waste your money.
Watch out for wet leaves. I was going up a mountain road yesterday. It was a sunny day, but the side of the road was still wet with decomposing leaves. Since it’s a mountain road with some traffic, I stayed to the side where the leaves were, and then I felt my back wheel spin in place. I had to unclip quickly to put my foot down to prevent falling. Fortunately, there was no car at the time. I could just image slipping on that wet surface right before a truck tries to overtake me. I decided to walk my bike for the rest of that section.
“How was your ride - yesterday?” Incredible weather for cycling, rode the Beiheng to Yilan. Given it was a Monday the roads were dead quiet, did not see anyone from Baling to the Minchi Forest. Coming down from MingChi to Datong was not as much fun, the roads were wet, slippery with leaves and mud/grit - typical in the MingChi forest - so a very slow descent. Along the road back to Yilan had to wait for an hour while they did roadwork to correct a landslide. The work is ongoing daily until sometime next year so be prepared for delays. On the way back stopped off to pick up a couple of bottles from “Jim & Dad’s” brewery for a post ride drink (at home). If you haven’t done this road its well worth it, though ride during a dry spell and avoid the weekends to really enjoy the quite roads.
Your post is effectively Landslide by Fleetwood Mac - no snow-covered hills though, but maybe you saw your reflection in Jim and Dad’s window walking in?
You didn’t take the obligatory pic of the 777 (77 kilometer mark on Rt. 7)? I rode the 106 from Taipei to its end in Ruifang, where the kilometer marker showed 81k. I was pleasantly surprised until I got home and realized that the 106 begins in Linkou
I took a train from Yilan back to Taipei - the “super fast local”…it took 2 hours (which was ok), but the air-conditioning was turned up full blast and with wet cycling clothes was freezing!!
Dam just a lil ride of bout 150 km and only 2316 meters of elevation gain???
I like to on my days off ride from my house in sunset down to near the old Cliff house , have a cupa coffee for 4 bucks at a nice lil cafe there and then ride back. a distance of about 10km round trip with a total elevation gain of about 200 feet or about 60 meters so that that !! Against your ride!! Ok stop laughing.
So 4am bike ride and then you’d do a days work after that?
I guess Taiwan has the luxury of relatively table sunrise and sunset times so you can go to bed early in darkness and not have to worry about overnight frost.
Here in the UK, in summer it gets dark around 10pm, winter about 3pm. Going to bed at 8pm for a 4am bike ride would be too hot and loud to get to sleep, and in winter 4am is dark and cold for hours!
I work freelance and make my own hours, and only really work a couple of hours a day at that. Not rich, but I get by fine, and it’s easy for me to take time off whenever I feel like it.
Went on a 75 mile/120 kilometre ride circling Yangmingshan on Monday, including a long, hard climb somewhere past Fenguizui on the way north that might have been more than I can really handle. I think the road was called 28-2. Ended up pushing the bike quite a bit and couldn’t help but notice most cyclists were going the other way, which always seems a clear sign I’m going up a road other people would rather only go down. After that, got onto the coast road and headed west, then south and back home.
I headed out just after dawn, and got back just before sunset. Three days later and I’m still exhausted. Furthest I’ve ever cycled in my life.
I go to the slave mine and slave and then come home to rest up before the next slave day
