STRAVA  ~ L'Etacq 10 Time Trial

Course Description
The race HQ for this course is alongside the finish line at L'Etacq Car Park, but the start is at the top of Hydrangea Avenue.  Leaving the red post box, embedded in the wall, at the top of the hill, you descend down in to St Ouen's Bay and fire south, along the Five Mile Road until you get to the car park at the foot of La Pulente, and 15k TT start line.

Turn behind the manhole cover in the middle of the road, to retrace your wheel tracks back north.  Don't worry, it's not you!  The head wind you had on the way out will somehow still be a headwind on the way back! 

Big Lee Wells ~ Focussing on the job in hand
Photo ~ Sam Goulding

Fight your way to the foot of Hydrangea, turn left and head out to L'Etacq.  Staying left, go around the headland to climb out of Stinky Bay.  Take the first right to drop back down the hill and scream all the way back to L'Etacq Car Park. 

The finish is at the Give Way sign, around 50 metres before the junction.

There are three significant EFR ~ Segments on this course...

▼ Segment 1 covers the 5 mile TT run in
▼ Segment 2 covers the 5 mile TT run out
▼ Segment 3 covers run in and out of L'Etacq; the Stinky Bay Loop!

Due to the current "constraints" on Strava's algorithms, out and back courses raise a few anomalies, which are to be addressed in the fullness of time.  The course record for this event (at time of publication) sits at 21:18.  Sorry Jason!

 

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Health & Safety
In this, sadly, more litigious world in which we now find ourselves, there has to be a Health and Safety narrative, to protect us all from those less cerebrally gifted than ourselves.  At all times you are responsible for your own actions or inactions. 

You have a right to ride your bicycle on the roads, but with that right comes obligations.  Many of our segments are reflections of intervals or routes we've used for the last twenty-five years.  Over the years, some have been modified to remove junctions, pedestrian crossings, or sections where building development has changed the risk profile. 

It is your obligation to ensure you do not put yourself, your riding companions or any other road users, in your immediate vicinity, in any danger whatsoever.  There is always tomorrow.  Ride safe, ride sensibly and be responsible for the outcome of your actions.  But above all, have fun...