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The sportive calendar now runs for 12 months and there are no shortage of rides to provide a late-season test of form.
The Circuit of Kent (Sunday September 7) is a popular late-summer sportive which offers 80km and 130km routes through the rolling Kent countryside, with entry available on the day.
The Etape Cymru (Sunday September 14) is one of the toughest events on the calendars and pits riders against an endlessly lumpy 88-mile course in north Wales. Online entry closes on Monday September 8.
The Exmouth Ex-Terminator (Sunday September 21) gives riders the choice of 42, 60 and 93-mile routes, starting and finishing just outside of Exeter and promising “quiet lanes, patchwork fields and spectacular village.”
You can find a full sportive calendar on the British Cycling website.
