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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 cycling

about 23 hours ago

The Old Lines Still Hold Part 4 — Terrain and Movement Across Apokoronas

The ride covered 21.2 km with 551 m of ascent and 551 m of descent, set along a rolling profile of repeated short climbs, broken descents, agricultural tracks, and interconnected movement corridors across central Apokoronas. Moving time totalled 1:20:48, with an ascent time of 0:44:21 and descent in 0:36:27. Gradients…

Time

1h53m

Distance

21.3km

Speed

15.6km/h

Ascent

560m

Descent

560m

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went cycling

3 days ago

THE OLD LINES STILL HOLD PART 3 — TERRAIN AND MOVEMENT ACROSS APOKÓRONAS

The ride covered 31.4 km with 707 m of ascent and 715 m of descent, set along a stepped rolling profile with repeated short off-road efforts building into a longer upland return across the higher ground of Apokóronas. Moving time totalled 1:53:45, with an ascent time of 1:10:21 and descent…

Time

2h37m

Distance

31.4km

Speed

16.6km/h

Ascent

710m

Descent

720m

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went mountain biking

5 days ago

The Old Lines Still Hold Part 2 — Terrain and Movement Across Apokóronas

The ride covered 38.4 km with 866 m of ascent and 871 m of descent, set along a stepped ridge-and-valley profile linking tarmac village roads, older agricultural tracks, descent lines, dry-stone field systems, river-valley approaches, and repeated return climbs across Apokóronas. Moving time totalled 2:18:39, with an ascent time of…

Time

3h35m

Distance

38.4km

Speed

16.2km/h

Ascent

870m

Descent

870m

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went mountain biking

7 days ago

The Old Lines Still Hold — Terrain and Movement Across Apokoronas

The ride covered 33.8 km with 736 m of ascent and 737 m of descent, set along a stepped rolling profile linking ridge roads, agricultural tracks, river corridors, and repeated contour-based climbs across the Apokoronas. Moving time totalled 2:17:43, with an ascent time of 1:15:37 and descent in 0:58:48. Gradients…

Time

3h29m

Distance

33.8km

Speed

14.7km/h

Ascent

740m

Descent

740m

went mountain biking

May 4, 2026

Apokoronas Enchanted Forest Circuit SOE Movement Ground

The ride covered 31.3 km with 671 m ascent and 674 m descent. Moving time was 2:08:47, with 1:14:05 ascent time and 0:46:41 descent time. Gradients reached +21.8% and –17.6%. Maximum speed was 55.0 km/h, with an average speed of 14.6 km/h. The route was 60% off-road, using compacted gravel,…

Time

3h44m

Distance

31.3km

Speed

14.6km/h

Ascent

670m

Descent

670m

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went mountain biking

May 1, 2026

White Mountains High Line — Sfakia Descent Route

The ride covered 24.6 km with 361 m of ascent and 1,313 m of descent, set along a high-altitude start followed by a sustained linear descent with three short climbs embedded early in the profile. Moving time totalled 1:51:07, with an ascent time of 0:37:03 and descent in 1:14:04. Gradients…

Time

3h39m

Distance

24.6km

Speed

12.7km/h

Ascent

360m

Descent

1,310m

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went mountain biking

April 30, 2026

Anopolis Plateau — Daskalogiannis Route

The ride covered 37.1 km with 923 m of ascent and 922 m of descent, set along a centralised climb followed by a rolling return profile with multiple shorter efforts. Moving time totalled 2:36:05, with an ascent time of 1:40:53 and descent in 0:55:12. Gradients reached +18.8% on the steeper…

Time

4h35m

Distance

37.1km

Speed

13.7km/h

Ascent

920m

Descent

920m

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April 30, 2026

Wow nice route

went mountain biking

April 21, 2026

Wells near Douliana

The ride covered 21.9 km with 562 m of ascent and 563 m of descent, set along a rolling, stepped profile with five distinct climbs and a final sustained return ascent. Moving time totalled 01:26:05, with an ascent time of 00:46:00 and descent in 00:40:05. Gradients reached +24.4% on the…

Time

3h33m

Distance

21.9km

Speed

15.0km/h

Ascent

560m

Descent

560m

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and went mountain biking

April 19, 2026

Mountain Bike Ride

Time

1h43m

Distance

14.5km

Speed

12.8km/h

Ascent

370m

Descent

370m

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went mountain biking

April 19, 2026

Kollitauros–Kryoneritis Mountain Ride

The ride covered 14.4 km with 500 m of ascent and 500 m of descent, set along a rolling high-mountain loop with four distinct climbs linked by ridge sections and a stepped return descent. Moving time totalled 1:07:09, with an ascent time of 0:38:19 and descent in 0:28:50. Gradients reached…

Time

1h39m

Distance

14.4km

Speed

12.1km/h

Ascent

500m

Descent

500m

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April 19, 2026

It was one of them rides where at every turn you have to stop and look at the view, the photo's don't do it justice, I suppose it's the down side of mountain biking in a stunning place

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