If touring the UK doesn’t float your boat (the weather we ‘enjoyed’ this ‘summer’ might well have something to do that), how about heading abroad to clock some late-summer miles?

How to travel by air with your bike

The Alps remain an option – and, if you haven’t already been, should be somewhere you have to ride in your life if you get the opportunity – while there are plenty of other options where warm weather and blue skies are still on tap in September and October.

Seven training camp destinations

How about Tuscany, Mallorca, southern Spain or the Canary Islands? Or why not enter an overseas sportive to sample the European gran fondo scene? The Tour of Menorca, which offers three days of riding on October 16-18, and Granfondo Campagnolo Roma (October 11), run on closed roads in and around the Italian capital and a great way to combine a sportive with a city break, remain two of our favourite events.

How to choose a training camp

Whether it’s a few days in the sun, an oversea sportive, or an organised tour, an end-of-season break is a great way to bring summer to a close.