3 rock training this week: Hardship and Woe

[Fergal]

in a last gasp effort for more points in the final K-Cap, I'll be doing some training up 3rock on Wed and Thur this week, leaving Taylors at approx 7pm.


this will not be any type of fun, in fact, it will be anti-fun, but that's the way it is.


it will involve short steep sprints up various sections from the lower car park to the path which joins the middle of the boneshaker, doing rock n roll backwards, and a long fireroad climb or two....


see - I told you... anti-fun, but good for you....

[Richie]

I'll be there on Thur if I can get a tyre for the bike Fergal. I'll txt ya either way.

[Fergal]

grandiose!

so you ripped your tyre? ripped the sidewall was it?

any possible way to mend it (stitching + glue + patch) without having to fork-out for a new one?

[Richie]

Need to take a good look at it when I have some time. I will defo be able to use it with a tube - its not ripped, well not that I can see. I'll probably just stick the Titus's front wheel on and swap disc's.

[ollietrex]

Reckon I should be out on Thursday... Was out last night and there was every man and his dog from Epic up there. Road training tonight, fun fun fun...

[Oisin]

I should be able to make it Thursday also.


Richie - that's a Schwalbe tyre right? I ripped the sidewall on a Nobby Nic UST once and it worked with patching and a tube for a while but eventually split too badly. Sidewalls don't seem very strong on Schwalbe tyres. Good luck with it.

[TomH]

God Richie, that must be tiring...

[Barrydanzig]

was up 3rock tonight from around 6 to 8 and it was nice and painfull. lots of technical climbs trying to get the ability back, and to finish off the night i met tom while he was out on a drive!


it seemed like everyone was out tonight doing a bit of training.


hellfire tomorrow night, should be fun.

[Fergal]

some MAD vandal wrote a pornographic message on my car when I was up there, guess I should keep it cleaner....


anyway, so I went up Kilmashogue for the 2nd time ever I think - my god - what an awful lot of hardship just to get to the frickin' aerials eh?

in fairness though - the sunset looked great from that end, and I found a cool jump spot in the process, also I got to do KDM - well most of it, there's a few fallen trees wreckin' the buzz up that way

oh but the size of that new house between the 'shogue and 3rock - wow

there's a lot of trail building possibilities out that end of the hills too...

[Barrydanzig]

so you got my message then eh?!

[Richie]

Won't make tonight, did not get around to sorting out the bike properly. Will try to get out with Barry tomorrow in Leadmines if I get my ass in gear this evening and get the it sorted. Might try organising one of these anti-fun spins on Tuesday evening, providing ye're not all tapering off that is :-)

Yep Oisin, its a Schwalbe nobby nic, the walls are like frickin paper. Was going to get the UST version, but since you had the same problem, I'm beginning to have my doubts. Any recommendations on a good UST tyre?

And you're right Tom, it is a deflating experience! BOOM BOOM!


On an unrelated note - accuweather.com are predicting Sunny periods with a high of 10 degrees and wind gusts of 49kph.... for the last k-capital race on the 20th! You heard it here first folks!

[Morgan]

I won't be out this evening either - I'll have my own hardship and woe at the physiotherapist. I think my knee is going to fall of. This might delay my return to awesomeness a bit.

[ollietrex]

Richie, I just put a set of Maxxis UST Cross Mark on my bike and they are really nice. I know Fergal and others rave about them and Oisin has won a few races on them so that seems good enough proof to me.

[Richie]

Sorted, cheers Ollie.

[Fergal]

a good tough one tonight - 3 sprints from lower to upper Ticknock car park, then another 3 up the kicker to the path to the mid-boneshaker,

up the boneshaker, then up, up, UP to the top of Fairy - great view

across the fun schlomp to 2 rock and down the bog of anti-traction suction to the puddley-path

along this until the drop to Satellite Run then out the exit and down the rocky path to the old MAD CC entrance, hard right and thru rock n roll,

then up the little kicker onto Blue Oyster trail, into the lower MAD CC,

fast climb up the fireroad to do rock n roll a 2nd & faster time, then Blue Oyster, Crossmax, Aggro and finished with a rocket-sled blast down the ultra-rocky canyon-of-carnage to the road and back to Taylors, training and fun all in the one spin.

Great.

[Scrivo]

Beginning to feel like a beginner going out with Fergal and Oisin... In a different league of fitness, am going to have to work hard before C'welan. Screw the Leaving Cert, have to get my priorities right on this one..


Reccommend heading out with people a bit quicker than yourself, really makes you push it to stay ahead/ keep up.

[Fergal]

but you passed the tests myself and Oisin craftily laid for you:


after the 6 sprints:

"want to climb the boneshaker Steve?" ....silence...


later that evening:

"want to race to the top of that fireroad Steve?"

"oh yeah man!! fireroads climbs!! oh brilliant - oh yeah let's do it!!!"


now there's a lad with the right attitude!


mmm...that shepherds pie was NICE......