A New Brunswick man is getting ready to embark on a European ultra-distance race where bikers plan their own route.
How riders travel between checkpoints is up to them
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Jul 18, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Fredericton’s Luis Cardoso will compete in a race that takes him across multiple European countries by bicycle. (Michael Heenan/CBC)
A New Brunswick man is getting ready to embark on a European ultra-distance race where bikers plan their own route.
Luis Cardoso of Fredericton will be starting the Transcontinental Race on Sunday.
The race begins in Trondheim, Norway, with checkpoints in Flåm, Norway, the Tatrus Mountains in Slovakia, Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Leskovik, Albania. The finish line is in Kalamata, Greece. With some restrictions, how each cyclist navigates that route is up to them.
Cardoso said his route as it stands is around 5,000 kilometres but he’s managed to shave several hundred kilometres off of that route by making changes.
“[I’ve] really been working on it for months really — the route part of it,” he said.
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