#TCRNo11 (women* only)
Lost Dot, the organisers of The Transcontinental Race, are pleased to share with you our ambitious campaign to more than double the women’s field for #TCRNo11.
At next year’s TCR, we aim to have 100 women on the start line. TCRNo7 winner Fiona Kolbinger summed up how excited we are to work towards this ambitious goal:
“Everybody can push boundaries, be it your own or those societally perceived - but we are yet to see full representation of the breadth of genders, ages, ethnicities, sociocultural and educational backgrounds in ultra-distance bike racing. In 2025, I want to see 100 women at the start line of the Transcontinental Race showing the world that fun and freedom, adventure and ambition are for all. I am certain that #100TCRWomen will move boundaries of what we think is possible in our sport and will make a lasting impact beyond the ultra-distance cycling community."
Our Race Partners and community are joining with us to break through the participation barrier and make #TCRNo11 our most gender-balanced race yet. We welcome you to add your voice to the #100TCRWomen campaign, and share why you would encourage more women to take to the start line next year.
This campaign welcomes participation from across the wide range of FLINTA gender identities. FLINTA is a German acronym that refers to people who are not cis men, and stands for: Frauen: Women, Lesben: Lesbians, Intergeschlechtliche: Intersex, Nichtbinäre: Non-binary, Trans: Trans, and Agender: Agender.
Provisional race details
Registration: 27th July 10:00-16:00 CEST
Race start: 27th July 2025 20:00 CEST
Finish party: 14th August 19:00-23:59 CEST
Finish cut-off: 14th August 23:59 CEST
Applications: open 2nd - 31st December
Open to: solo entrants or pairs
Cost: £510 per rider + refundable £130 tracker deposit
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About the Race
The Transcontinental Race is the definitive self-supported bicycle race across Europe. At the sharp end it is a beautifully hard bicycle race, simple in design but complex in execution. Factors of self reliance, logistics, navigation and judgement burden racers’ minds as well as their physiques. The strongest excel and redefine what we think possible, while many experienced riders target only a finish.
The Transcontinental is a single stage race in which the clock never stops. Riders plan, research and navigate their own course and choose when and where to rest. They will take only what they can carry and consume only what they can find. Four mandatory control points guide their route and ensure a healthy amount of climbing to reach some of cycling’s most beautiful and historic monuments. Each year our riders cover around 4000 km to reach the finish line.
Mike Hall
The man who started it all. Mike Hall devised the Transcontinental Race and ran all editions until his tragic death in 2017. Find out all about the inspiring maverick whose spirit remains the beating heart of everything Lost Dot do.
Lost Dot
We preserve and nurture Mike Hall's legacy of fair and self-sufficient racing, championing integrity, equality and inclusivity, creating opportunities for unique and beautiful journeys of self discovery to share with as many people as possible.
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The Route
TCRNo11 extends eastward like a tear line across Europe. A permission slip for a new decade of adventure, where change is the only constant. Riders of the Transcontinental have long learned to accept this aphorism, facing each day, each kilometre, and each new reality as and when they arrive. The most successful adapting, overcoming, and thriving in each fresh scenario.
As our riders do, so must the race change and adapt. Thriving in order to survive, redrawing the Transcontinental map. Starting on Europe’s far western edge, where pilgrims have ended their journeys for a thousand years, our riders go further west still, to Fisterra, the windswept cape which Romans believed to be the end of the world. From here, the route treads an almost horizontal line across the continent, crossing fewer parallels than any previous TCR and finishing less than two degrees north of its start.
At the race’s northernmost point, the Strada dell’Assietta, our flashback through history becomes more recent. It was here, as Ibbett chased down Hayden, the race took in its first off-road parcours. After traversing the Alps we swing south, exploring previously unreached roads in the Apennines of Italy, before crossing the Adriatic Sea to the Balkans, the Danube, and finally Constanta - Ancient Rome’s Tomis.
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