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My issue with it is not that they are taking Adrian's or Audax Ireland's route, it's that starting and finishing with a long ferry is not a great idea for a race.
I don't know how frequent the ferries are nowadays but how is it going to work?
At the start virtually everyone will be going for the same one. There must be a limit on how many bikes the ferries take. So do you wait for the start gun then immediately book your ferry before you start riding ... and find it is already booked by people who have reserved it before the start? Or try and get there as fast as to get in the queue?
Then on the way back, let's say you are in the lead and have raced your legs off and have 14 hours on the second placed guy. But there's only two ferries a day and the next three guys all come in together and just make your ferry. So instead of an ultra you are now racing a crit round Snowdonia.
From a racing point of view it just seems shit. In every other event ferries are a necessary evil when there is water to be crossed, not something that the event revolves around. If they want to have a race in Ireland, why not have the start and finish in Ireland too?
But what do I know - it's now sold out.