Win a place on next summer's Transcontinental Race from Belgium to Greece

The organisers of next year’s fifth edition of the Transcontinental Race have teamed up with sponsors PEdALED to offer one lucky cyclist a coveted place on the event – and to become an ambassador both for the race itself, and the Italy-based clothing firm.

As race founder Mike Hall explains in the video above, the place became free when Jacopo Porreca, who has ridden the Transcontinental Race twice, the first time as part of a pair, recently started working with PEdALED and will be on the road with them during the race.

To stand a chance of getting the place – as well as clothing from PEdALED and kit from other sponsors, Apidura, Lezyne and Kinesis – you need to ride 250km (or 300km if you live in the Southern Hemisphere) by 18 December and upload it to the Transcontinental Race.

As Hall explains, you’ll also have to supply a short video too – it’s not a case of just being able to show you can ride the distance self-supported, you’ll also be an ambassador for the race and for PEdALED.

The video needs to be no longer than 3 minutes and to be sent in by 22 December, after which the Trancontinental Race will put a shortlist on its YouTube channel to  a public vote – as they say, “we want the person to be someone who people really want to get behind and whose dot they will follow.”

You can see the terms and conditions and sign up to the competition here.

Transcontinental No. 5 starts at the iconic Muur van Geraardsbergen, Belgium on 28 July and finishes in Meteora, Greece - withe checkpoints along the way at Castle Lichtenstein in Germany, Montegrappa in Italy, the High Tatras in Slovakia and Transfagarasan in Romania.

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