Saturday 26 April 2025
We are delighted to announce Sportive Kinross will return on Saturday 26th April 2025, entries will be opened at 00:00 hours on 1st October on Entry Central and there will once again be a reduced early entry fee.
First off a huge thank you to all who supported Sportive Kinross 2024, be you a rider or a volunteer and of course our wonderful sponsors Bandrum Nursing Home, Bandrum provide support and care for a broad range of ages. So if you are thinking about a nursing home or adult care services give them a call.
The Sportive Kinross has been going now for 15 years! Originally conceived to promote Kinross Cycling Club and increase membership, the event has gone from strength to strength and remains just as popular as it did when we took a leap into the unknown with the 2011 event
What you said to us Fifteen years ago about Sportive Kinross
“Just to say thanks for the well organised event today, really enjoyed it. Faultless organisation and really friendly. Hope that you will be running it again, as I would definitely enter” PB
And what you said to us 2024
“Thank you to all at KCC for all their hard work in making this happen every year (Lockdown excepted). Had a great run on the red route this year, baltic again with momentary big hailstones near Forteviot🤣 but lots of fun (type 2😉). All the very best, hopefully see you again next year all things being equal 👍” CC
“Thank you so much! Really enjoyable event!” - KB
In 2025 for the first 100 entries the entry fee will be £25.00 as they were in 2011, for the next 200 its £30 (a £5 reduction on the full price of £35).
Entries open 01/10/2024
Great event!
"Just wanted to say, folks, that this was my first proper Sportive, and I was thoroughly impressed by every aspect of the organisation. Only Blue route for me today, but I'll definitely be back next year for Red or Black. Many many thanks to everyone involved in organising it - great effort by everyone". - AK
Congratulations on a great event.
"We have to say a big thank you and congratulations for organising such a great event. We cycled the red route and as we did it became apparent just how much thought must have gone into the organisation. The amenities at the Campus made it a great place to start and finish. We stopped at the first food station where it was wonderful to have proper toilet facilities. We also have to mention whoever made the tablet, it was lovely!(I hope we left enough for everyone else?). Thanks to the marshalls en-route it couldn't have been much fun standing about in all that rain. We were absolutely frozen when we arrived at the finish but you'd saved the best till last - Hot Food to heat us up, you had indeed thought of everything!!" Thank you from Debbie,Jenny & Cathy.
We figured you might like some numbers from 2024.
Highest ever percentage turn out of riders for the event at 79% of those signed up.
589 Starters with 582 completing their nominated route.
153 Blue Route Finishers
232 Red Route Finishers
197 Black Route Finishers
At the feed stations there were over
500 bananas
800 cakes
300 savouries
300L of bottled water
We spent over £3,000 for catering at the school
Bought around 700 chocolate biscuits to go with the souvenir mugs.
Hired 1 van
Had over 50 volunteers out on the weekend including the lovely people from CHAS.
We gave away over 50 event beanie hats to volunteers
The event raised over £6,700 for CHAS and we rounded it up to £7,500
We made further donations of over £1,000 other local good causes including the charity Broke Not Broken, KLEO, SSPCA, Dunning Primary School and the Kinross-shire Fund.
