Munich to Istanbul · part 10 of 10 · Turkey
Ride from Edirne to Istanbul on your smart trainer
Across Thrace by Lüleburgaz and Çorlu to the Sea of Marmara at Silivri, and along it into Istanbul, to Sultanahmet.
In Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop, with a smart trainer or on the keys. No subscription, no card. The iPhone app is coming.
- Distance
- 291 km 181 mi
- Climbing
- 2,287 m 7,502 ft
- Highest point
- 233 m 763 ft
- Steepest 200 m
- 8.0%
- At 45 minutes a ride
- about 5 weeks
Along the way
- 0.0 km 0.0 mi Edirne
- 68.9 km 42.8 mi Babaeski
- 97.9 km 60.9 mi Lüleburgaz
- 158.6 km 98.6 mi Çorlu
- 208.0 km 129.2 mi Silivri
- 253.4 km 157.5 mi Büyükçekmece
- 291.3 km 181.0 mi Istanbul
About the road
The last part of Munich to Istanbul crosses Thrace through Babaeski, Lüleburgaz and Çorlu, reaches the Sea of Marmara at Silivri, and follows the coast past Büyükçekmece and its long Ottoman bridge into Istanbul. It finishes in Sultanahmet, between Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque.
If you have ridden all ten parts, this is where the journey ends.
Also known as Edirne–İstanbul by bike, Thrace by bike, Via Militaris.
How to ride it on your trainer
- Open longvoie in Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop. It is free: an email and a code to sign in, no password, no card.
- Connect your trainer: any smart trainer that speaks FTMS (Wahoo, Tacx, Elite…), or a power meter, and a heart-rate strap if you have one. No trainer yet? Ride on the keys.
- Pick Edirne to Istanbul. longvoie sets your trainer's resistance as the road climbs and eases it as it falls, and you ride it in 3D, on the real street.
- Stop whenever you like. Your next ride starts from the metre you stopped at.
| Your usual ride | Edirne to Istanbul takes |
|---|---|
| 30 minutes | about 8 weeks |
| 45 minutes | about 5 weeks |
| 60 minutes | about 4 weeks |
| 90 minutes | about 3 weeks |
At three or four rides a week, and a steady 25 km/h plus an hour for every 1,000 m up.
Take the road with you
The route is free to download as a GPX file, for your bike computer, Komoot, Strava or another trainer app: edirne-istanbul.gpx.
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Route © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. Heights from the Copernicus DEM, through Open-Meteo.