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Alan McWilliams

E-MTB rider based in Western Crete, documenting off-road routes across mountain, rural, and historic terrain.

Routes are personally ridden and field-verified, recorded with GPX data, clear grading, terrain notes, and surface accuracy. The emphasis is on rideability, access, and realistic conditions rather than headline distance or speed.
Many routes follow older paths, resistance landscapes, battlefield ground, and working rural or sacred sites. Historical context is included only where it arises directly from the ground being ridden, with attention to place-names and land use over time.


Off-road riding in Crete involves linking existing tracks, older paths, and rural access routes with short road sections, reflecting the absence of a way-marked E-MTB trail network and the terrain’s settlement-based structure.
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went mountain biking

Yesterday at 08:26

Morning Ride

Time

3h31m

Distance

27.4km

Speed

15.3km/h

Ascent

640m

Descent

640m

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went mountain biking

November 7, 2026 at 06:33

Morning Ride

Time

2h18m

Distance

24.6km

Speed

16.1km/h

Ascent

560m

Descent

570m

went mountain biking

November 3, 2026 at 06:59

Morning Ride

Time

2h49m

Distance

27.2km

Speed

15.6km/h

Ascent

650m

Descent

650m

went mountain biking

October 29, 2026 at 06:58

Morning Ride

Time

2h31m

Distance

30.7km

Speed

17.2km/h

Ascent

630m

Descent

610m

went mountain biking

October 27, 2026 at 07:05

A Morning of Questionable Decisions

https://emtbcrete.gr/a-morning-of-questionable-decisions/

Time

3h07m

Distance

29.9km

Speed

15.6km/h

Ascent

670m

Descent

670m

went mountain biking

October 25, 2026 at 07:23

The Day Greece Said No From the Mountains of Epirus to the Battle of Crete28 October 2026 — The 86th Anniversary

Every year, on 28 October, the blue and white flag of Greece appears across Crete. It hangs from balconies and village houses, above shopfronts and public buildings, and along the streets where schoolchildren assemble for the annual parades. Church bells ring, wreaths are laid at memorials, and communities gather to…

Time

3h42m

Distance

37.2km

Speed

15.5km/h

Ascent

850m

Descent

850m

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went mountain biking

October 18, 2026 at 05:54

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

3h46m

Distance

32.1km

Speed

14.7km/h

Ascent

820m

Descent

830m

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went mountain biking

October 8, 2026 at 06:54

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

1h54m

Distance

18.5km

Speed

17.2km/h

Ascent

420m

Descent

420m

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went mountain biking

October 6, 2026 at 06:25

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

3h15m

Distance

31.0km

Speed

15.6km/h

Ascent

680m

Descent

690m

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went mountain biking

October 5, 2026 at 06:48

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

0h42m

Distance

10.6km

Speed

18.9km/h

Ascent

260m

Descent

260m

went mountain biking

September 24, 2026 at 05:02

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

3h11m

Distance

36.3km

Speed

17.8km/h

Ascent

680m

Descent

690m

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went mountain biking

September 22, 2026 at 04:53

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

3h15m

Distance

28.9km

Speed

14.6km/h

Ascent

610m

Descent

610m

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went mountain biking

September 20, 2026 at 05:02

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

4h07m

Distance

42.4km

Speed

16.0km/h

Ascent

890m

Descent

890m

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went mountain biking

September 13, 2026 at 05:01

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

2h42m

Distance

27.6km

Speed

15.1km/h

Ascent

610m

Descent

620m

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went mountain biking

September 10, 2026 at 04:56

The Sound of Silence

Something is missing from this ride. There are no photographs, no account of what I saw, no explanation for the tracks I chose or the places I stopped. Only a line across the Cretan landscape and a collection of statistics that reveal precisely where I went, but almost nothing about…

Time

3h16m

Distance

38.4km

Speed

15.6km/h

Ascent

820m

Descent

830m

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