Lloyds National Road Racing Championships
Aberystwyth, 28 June 2026.
Riders who competed in 2025 will once again feel a sense of familiarity with a similar route around Aberystwyth. After a processional start on the seafront, the road races will head out of town towards Llanfarian as far as Trawsgoed on a picturesque yet testing 23.4km anticlockwise loop, before heading back towards Aberystwyth passing Y Gors. The peloton will be challenged across three laps for the women's race and five laps in the men’s race, before action moves onto the finishing circuit.
The finishing circuit of 12.4km - four full laps for the women’s and five full laps for the men’s race - use the start and finish point on the seafront as its central focus, running along almost the entirety of the promenade, past the old college and the castle grounds, before a technical section through the old harbour that loops out over Trefechan bridge.
Such is the testing nature of the course; there is a maximum gradient of 8.7% through Southgate to be tackled each lap. The narrow technical descent from Moriah back to the main A44 will be a test of bike handling skills as the riders reach the final few kilometres of each championship. From there, the race heads back into the town before concluding on the seafront promenade after 128km for the women and 187km for the men.
Event start times:
- Elite/U23 Women: 08:45
- Elite/U23 Open: 13:45
More information on the British Cycling website.
