MAMORE GAP HAS been included as one of cycling’s ‘most brutal Irish climbs’.
Cycling website stickybottle.com compiled a list of Ireland’s toughest five climbs, with the Inishowen landmark, outside of Clonmany, making the cut because of its 12.4 per cent average gradient, which hits 22 per cent on occasion.
The Mamore Gap was last used in the An Post Rás — Ireland’s only UCI-ranked cycling race — in 2012 and the feedback afterwards was one of utter shock at how difficult it was.
The climb itself is short and at 1.1 kilometres it lacks the length of all the others that have made this list.
What it lacks in length, however, it makes up for in how steep it is and not only will you need to be in exceptionally good shape to get over the top of it, you’ll have to face up to the fact that there are most likely going to be flocks of sheep all over the road.
So be careful!
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