LEJOG - The End to End Cycle Route
Perhaps one of the cycling challenges Britain is most known for is LEJOG — Land's End to John o'Groats. A manual from Cicerone Guides was, at the time, the perfect guide to plan and embark on such a trip. The guide was published in March 2012, so at the time of writing it was as up to date a guide as you could find for the route — though we always recommend you plan ahead and check current route and accommodation information before you go, especially now that some years have passed since publication.
Contents
The book was split into the following chapters:
- Overview map
- Introduction
- Things to see
- Getting there
- Accommodation
- Getting back
- Which way and when to go
- Health and safety
- Training fitness
- What to take
- Food and drink
- Using this guide
- The route
The route, stage by stage
- Stage 1: Land's End to Fowey
- Stage 2: Fowey to Moretonhampstead
- Stage 3: Moretonhampstead to Street
- Stage 4: Street to Monmouth
- Stage 5: Monmouth to Clun
- Stage 6: Clun to Runcorn
- Stage 7: Runcorn to Slaidburn
- Stage 8: Slaidburn to Keswick
- Stage 9: Keswick to Moffat
- Stage 10: Moffat to Loch Lomond
- Stage 11: Loch Lomond to Glencoe
- Stage 12: Glencoe to Inverness
- Stage 13: Inverness to the Crask Inn
- Stage 14: The Crask Inn to John o'Groats
Plus a set of appendices: a route summary table, OS maps covering the route, accommodation, tourist information, cycle repair shops en route, other useful resources, and OS grid references.
The first section of the guide discussed everything you'd need to think about for the ride — things to see along the way, accommodation whether campsites, B&Bs or hostels, how to train, what to take and more. The ride itself was separated into 14 stages, each averaging around 70 miles, on a tried and tested route designed to avoid the busier A-roads as much as possible in favour of minor roads and cycle paths, taking in the sights and scenery of Britain along the way.
At the time, Amazon customers rated the book highly, with reviewers praising its precise turn-by-turn instructions, gradient profiles, and clear maps and photographs — clearly a labour of love for its author, who by his own account had ridden the End-to-End close to a dozen times.