Virtual cycling challenges
A virtual cycling challenge turns the miles you already ride into progress along a real-world route. Connect Strava or Apple Health once and every ride counts, whether it was a commute, a club run or an hour on the turbo. These are the Route Rally routes written for riders, shortest first.
How a virtual cycling challenge works
Route Rally is a virtual challenge app in which your real rides carry you along long-distance routes. You pick a route, set your own finishing date, and each ride you record is added to your total until you reach the end. Nothing is entered by hand and there is no event day to turn up for, so an indoor session in January counts for exactly as much as a summer century. Take a route on as a Conquest and finishing it stamps your passport for life, with a pace medal for how quickly you got there.
Routes for cyclists
Times below assume a steady 120 km a week. You set your own finishing date when you create the rally.
- Shimanami Kaidō (83.2 km, about 1 week)
- London to Brighton (90 km, about 1 week)
- Great Glen Way (116.4 km, about 1 week)
- South Downs Way (161.2 km, about 1 week)
- The Ridgeway (163.7 km, about 1 week)
- Mallorca Tramuntana Loop (180.9 km, about 2 weeks)
- Coast to Coast (C2C) (224.8 km, about 2 weeks)
- King Alfred’s Way (351 km, about 3 weeks)
- Tuscany Trail (443.5 km, about 4 weeks)
- Danube Cycle Path (650.2 km, about 5 weeks)
- Scottish North Coast Loop (811.1 km, about 7 weeks)
- California Coastal Traverse (1053.3 km, about 9 weeks)
- Lands End to John O'Groats (1390.3 km, about 12 weeks)
- Route 66 (3809.4 km, about 32 weeks)
- Pan-American Odyssey (23295.3 km, about 3.7 years)