The Circuit of Kent celebrates its 15th running this year on Sunday, September 9. The much celebrated south-east cyclo-sportive first ran in 1998, and has maintained its position as one of the best-organised events in the UK.
The event was one of the first to give challenge times based on age and gender, and its early success paved the way for numerous British sportives. Now the sportive calendar is packed with events from one end of the year to the other as cycling enjoys a boom in Britain.
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