ABOUT
Race around the Netherlands is a fully self-supported bike packing race.
The RatN is a do-it-yourself challenge.
You are your own ride organizer.
Understand that this is a personal challenge against the clock. Not against others!
It is 1890k in distance with 6800m of elevation.
The RatN has two categories – solo and pair.
Start and finish location:
De Proloog Cafe
Allemanswaard 27
3958 KA Amerongen
https://deproloog.cc/
Start time and date:
Start: May 1st at 0800 local time.
Official Finish: May 9th at 1800 local time.
RULES
1. Riders must complete the full course from start to finish under their own power.
2. Riders must be fully self-supported.
3. No Drafting at any time.
(pair riders may draft each other)
4. Riders must follow the Dutch laws at any time.
5. Riders are required to use a provided GPS device.
6. No prize money.
ROUTE
The start and finish is in the village of Amerongen, located at the Utrechtse Heuvelrug at the famous cycling cafe De Proloog. The route takes us first along the rivers Neder-Rijn and the Waal to the historic cities of Nijmegen and Arnhem (known from the film “A Bridge Too Far” about the Operation Market Garden). Next you leave the beautiful river landscape and the historic cities behind and the route takes you through the National Park Veluwezoom. The National Park is known for its endless heath fields, imposing country estates and of course one of the most famous hills in the Netherlands, the Posbank.
You will pass through the heart of Enschede and along the Dolmens in the province of Drenthe, prehistoric burial chambers where the cycle route passes by. After which the route leads you through the city of Groningen.
The wind starts to get stronger along the coastline. Instead of crossing the Ijsselmeer over one of the icons of the Dutch flood defense, the Afsluitdijk, riders will ride around the Ijsselmeer and will pass scenic harbors in the towns of Enkhuizen and Hoorn.
den Header the route takes you south along the Dutch coast. Beautiful beaches and dunes with little to no buildings, towards the port of Rotterdam, the largest port in Europe. First you will cycle through the city of Rotterdam and across the Erasmus bridge towards the Maasvlakte.
The route takes you further south over the Delta Park Neeltje Jans, which is part of the Dutch flood defense, in the direction of Vlissingen. A historic city due to its strategic location. In the Eighty Years’ War between the Netherlands and Spain, the city was in Spanish hands for a while.
You cycle along the Belgian border towards the hills in the province of Limburg. Where you hit one of the iconic Dutch hills, the Keutenberg with a maximum gradient of 16%.
If you have conquered the hills you cycle back through the beautiful river landscape of the Maas towards Nijmegen. Via the southern side of the rivers over the dikes you will finish at the cafe De Proloog.
PHOTOS
some impressions
EXTERNAL Information and support
We want to encourage people and businesses along the route to connect to the riders!
We want to inform all riders properly of all given external opportunities during the event!
Most important – it must be available to every rider!
Social media is not covering an information exchange with all our participants!
Therefore we want to provide a platform to share public or private external information to build a fair event environment.
Your business is on the route?
You want to share pictures you made from the riders?
You want to support all riders in any other way?
Please create an account and tell us and the riders who you are and what you are planning to provide!
Please Note that Adventure Bike Racing is not legally connected to any companies or persons listed here and just provides this as a framework of information exchange!
SPONSORING
Please consider using the links!
Cycling Insurance for UK residents!
REGISTRATION 2020
When and How much is the Registration?
Registration opens June 01st, 2019 and closes April 10th, 2020
Fee for Registration Solo category is 185 Euro.
Fee for Registration Pair category is 185 Euro.
For the pair category both riders have to register and pay. Please tell us your riding partner!
Fee for a one night stay the night in the hostel prior to the event is 35,- extra
First come – first served!
What you get for the fee:
The Route in form of a gpx file
Tracking device for the duration of the event
Official race cap
Pasta Dinner the evening before the start!
Welcome at the finishline in de Proloog cafe:
Shower, the option to sleep it off if you finish at night time!
Pictures we make during the event (can`t guarantee we have yours but we will try)
Publishing individual times on our website.
Refund policy:
65,-Euro refund until December, 30th 2019
Use the EVENT SIGN UP in the top menu if you already have an Adventure Bike Racing Account!
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RIDERS 2020
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RESULTS 2019
SOLO
Bas Vlaskamp, Netherlands // 4D // 1H // 3M
Daan Marsmans, Netherlands // 4D // 4H // 35M
Sam Thomas, Netherlands // 4D // 6H // 48M
Yves Conen, Belgium // 4D // 10H // 8M
Ashley Sharp, United Kingdom // 4D // 10H // 10M
Bart Verheijen, Netherlands // 4D // 10H // 10M
Hippy, Australia // 4D // 13H // 4M
Stephen Haines, United Kingdom // 4D // 15H // 56M
Robert Ferri, Virgin Islands // 4D // 19H // 33M
Tom Hudders, Belgium // 4D // 22H // 19M
Igor Talevski, Macedonia // 4D // 22H // 47M
Andy Lawrence, United Kingdom // 4D // 23H // 56M
Andrew Osborne, United Kingdom // 5D // 3H // 38M
Andras Regös, Switzerland // 5D // 5H // 52M
George Bennett, United Kingdom // 5D // 6H // 25M
Tom Williams, United Kingdom // 5D // 10H // 5M
Rob Meeuwessen, Netherlands // 5D // 11H // 10M
Erik Wallinga, Netherlands // 5D // 12H // 14M
Eddie Kouiss, Netherlands // 5D // 12H // 45M
Lamri Adjis, Netherlands // 5D // 18H // 3M
Jan-Dick den Das, Netherlands // 5D // 19H // 24M
Wybren Buijs, Netherlands // 5D // 22H // 13M
Aram Drake, Australia // 6D // 2H // 3M
Jack Peterson, United Kingdom // 6D // 2H // 19M
Carsten Honemann, Germany // 6D* // 3H // 58M
Richard Orton, United Kingdom // 6D // 4H // 45M
Stefan Anastasiei, Romania // 6D // 6H // 43M
Bregt Huizenga, Netherlands // 6D // 10H // 1M
Stéphane Billard, France // 6D // 10H // 41M
Sebastian Bönner, Germany // 6D // 10H // 53M
Bas Scherpenisse, Netherlands // 6D // 11H // 07M
Erik Vennemann, Netherlands // 6D // 11H // 14M
Onno Zuidema, Netherlands // 6D // 11H // 07M
René Rutten, Netherlands // 6D // 12H // 58M
Andrew Wilson, United Kingdom // 6D // 15H // 57M
Patrick Bruns, Netherlands // 7D // 6H // 21M
Kilian Wagner, Germany // 7D // 09H // 10M
Willem Pals, Netherlands // 7D // 09H // 38M
Berry van den Brink, Netherlands // 7D // 09H // 59M
Sheila Woollam, United Kingdom // 7D // 18H // 8M
Julia Freeman, United Kingdom // 8D // 7H // 50M
Susanne van Aardenne, Netherlands // 8D* // 11H // 41M
* +24H time adjustment for taken the afslusdike route
PAIR
Kevin Robison, United Kingdom // 6D // 7H // 7M
Jamie Robison, United Kingdom // 6D // 7H // 7M
Richard Hunt, United Kingdom // 6D // 18H // 37M
Gawaine Clark, United Kingdom // 6D // 18H // 37M
Adam Kramer, Netherlands // 6D // 20H // 17M
Nathan Streunding, Netherlands // 6D // 20H // 17M
Maren Barkowsky, Germany // 6D // 22H // 16M
Marc Alinski, Germany // 6D // 22H // 16M
Christopher Crawford, United Kingdom // 7D* // 7H // 31M
Pascal Gebing, Germany // 7D* // 7H // 31M
Dirk Martens, Belgium // 8D // 3H // 43M
Luc Van Ginneken, Belgium // 8D // 3H // 43M
Matteo Minola-Violino, Italy // 8D // 8H // 27M
Carmen Acampo, Netherlands // 8D* // 9H // 33M
Goedele Visser, Netherlands // 8D* // 9H // 33M
Andrew Slaven, Canada // 8D* // 9H // 40M
Matt Walker, United Kingdom // 8D* // 9H // 40M
* +24H time adjustment for taken the afslusdike route
RESULTS 2018
SOLO
Joris Cosyn, Belgium // 4D // 6H // 11M
Tjerk Bakker, Netherlands // 4D // 10H // 45M
Colin James, United Kingdom // 4D // 11H // 12M
Jason Schreurs, Netherlands // 4D //13H // 28M
Erik Wallinga, Netherlands // 4D // 14H // 35M
Adam Verhaar, Netherlands // 5D // 8H // 28M
James Holmes, Netherlands // 5D // 13H // 2M
Jamie Robison, United Kingdom // 6D // 4H // 19M
Onno Zuidema, Netherlands // 6D // 8H // 52M
Dean Strike, Australia // 6D // 11H // 48M
Erik Venneman, Netherlands // 6D // 16H // 5M
Rutger van Valderen, Netherlands // 6D // 16H // 30M // incl. 4H Penalty
William Luke Windsor, United Kingdom // 7D // 4H // 55M
Marc Wismans, Netherlands // 7D // 8H // 55M
Ralph Cullen, Netherlands // finish
Thijs Verbrugghe, Netherlands // dsq (fully self supported) // finish
Mathias Reygaerts, Belgium // dnf
Eric Kampherbeek, Netherlands // dnf
Lamri Adjis, Netherlands // dnf
Julia Freeman, United Kingdom // dnf
Olaf Rittgeroth, Germany // dnf
Eelco Weijmans, Netherlands // dnf
Jan-Willem Bobbink, Netherlands // dns
Christopher Greenan, Scotland // dns
PAIR
Giorsio Raboen, Netherlands // 5D // 16H // 50M
Alain Raboen, Netherlands // 5D // 16H // 50M
Dennis Kim, South Korea // dnf
Hana Kim, South Korea // dnf
Leon Lagerwerf, Netherlands // dnf
Bart Meerwijk, Netherlands // dnf
