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Little Lumpy Cycling Sportive

May 18 2025

Surrey South East

Date Confirmed

Distances: 40, 69, 124, miles

Difficulty: Difficult terrain with longer, steeper hills

Limited to: 500000 Participants

What goes up must come down!

For 2025, we thought we would go back to just our three routes Epic, Challenge and Sport. The Epic is almost as long as last year’s Ultra, but without having to climb Duncton Hill twice. The Sport remains the same, but we have also made the Challenge a bit more challenging!

The Start/Finish remains at Woolmer Hill, with all riders (Sport, Challenge and Epic) taking the same route to South Harting and the first Sport feed station. The Challenge and Epic peel off at South Harting and go to Charlton for their first feedstop via Butser Hill

Little Lumpy - Four courses in one.

Sport

40.2 miles (64.7 km) with 3,174ft (966m) of climbing and two feed-stops at South Harting and Lurgashall. Avoids the South Downs but still has a testing climb towards the end.

At South Harting you will wave goodbye to your madder colleagues doing the Challenge and Epic routes as they head off to the first of several climbs over the South Downs. Your route will take you back through the pretty villages of Elsted, Cocking, Lodsworth and Lurgashall, with a testing climb at Blackdown, before finishing at the top of Woolmer Hill.

Challenge

69 miles (111.1km) with 4,977ft (1,517m) of climbing, over the South Downs four times and with three feed-stops.

The Challenge follows the same route as the Sport towards South Harting, when along with the Epic, it turns west just before South Harting to join the B2146 after Torberry Hill. The route takes you to Buriton and then continues under the A3 to Oxenbourne, where there is a sharp climb up to Butser Hill. After the feed-stop at Chalton, the route takes you to Finchdean, Rowlands Castle and back to South Harting (feed-stop) via West Marden and Compton. The route back home is via Elsted, Didling, Cocking, Heyshott Green, South Ambersham, Selham, Lodsworth, Lurgashall (feed-stop) and Blackdown.

Epic

124.7 miles (200.7km) with 8,366ft (2,550m) of climbing, five ascents of the South Downs and four feed-stops.

The route is the same as for the Challenge to Chalton and Rowlands Castle. Then the route continues via Lavant, Westhampnett, Maudlin, Halnaker, Boxgrove, Tangmere, Oving and Westergate. Here we have made major changes from last year, with the route going via Barnham to Walberton where there is a feed-stop. The route then takes you to Fontwell (and the cycle underpass) to Slindon and up over the Downs to Houghton, via Madehurst. The route now continues through Houghton and Amberley Station along the B2139, turning left through Rackham and back to Coldwaltham and then along the A285 to Upwaltham via Duncton Down and then, as before, East Dean, Goodwood, Singleton, West Dean, Chilgrove, East Marden, Compton and back to South Harting. Thereafter, it follows the other routes.

Little Lumpy Cycling Sportive

Start Located At: Little Lumpy, Woolmer Hill Road, Haslemere, Surrey, GU27 1QA

07860 263055

Registration Fees

Route	Distance	Climb	To 31st Dec	Jan 1st - Apr 30th	May 1st - 16th	On the day
Epic	124.7 miles	8366ft	£32.50	£37.50	£45	+ £10
Challenge	69 miles	4977ft	£27.50	£32.50	£40	+ £10
Sport	40.2 miles	3174ft	£22.50	£27.50	£35	+ £10