Ride to Horsa
Ride To Horsa is a highly poignant cycling event by The Veterans Charity to honour D-Day Heroes and create a unique and significant memorial at Horsa Bridge in Normandy.
- Thu 5 - Sun 8 Sep 2024
- Fundraising required
- Entries closed
Ride to Horsa
11:00
Age 18-80
Sign up £295
Fundraise £600
- 3 days road cycling
Event overview
Ride To Horsa promises to be a hugely poignant and highly memorable cycling event which follows a route from Tarrant Rushton Airfield, where the gliders took off on the night of 5th June 1944.
- Day 1 | Tarrant Rushton to Lytchett Minster (48 miles)
- Day 2 | Lytchett Minster to Poole. Ferry to Cherbourg (0830 sailing). Cherbourg to Sainte Mere Eglise (25 miles)
- Day 3 | Sainte Mere Eglise to Ranville (72 miles)
- Day 4 | Memorial unveiling at Horsa Bridge
Participants on Ride To Horsa are required to raise funds for The Veterans Charity which has created this exciting event. The funds raised will pay for the memorial and also help the charity to continue delivering vital support to Veterans of the UK Armed Forces.
Places are limited to 150 participants and available on a first come, first served basis. The cycling event is being managed by our friends at Sportive HQ.
Event details
- Event village
Location
- Bag storage
- Bag transfer
- Changing facilities
- Rural
- Toilets
Route
- Check points
- First aid
- Flat
- Food stations
- Hilly
- Marshals
- Point to point
- Sleeping facilities
- Staggered starts
- Sweeper
- Toilets
- Undulating
- Water stations
Sustainability
- Plastic bottle free
- Recycling
- Sustainability policy
What's included
- GPS tracking
- Medal
- Race photo
- Technical t-shirt
Fundraising
- Fundraising materials
- Fundraising required
- Fundraising support
Entries
- Age 18-80
- 150 places
- Enter online
- Fundraising required