Sunny weekends biking

[Morgan]

There was a fair bit of it, especially Saturday with the spin across to Ballinastoe, then there was the Awesome Club Chairman racing over in the west....

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This comment was originally posted at 18:24 on 27th January 2008.nnfeck but Saturday was one of the toughest spins in a while - started off in the main group from Taylors at around 9:30, as we prgressed through the day, various riders took advantage of the opt-out points, leaving the hardy few to fight on across the hills.


Met the worcies and Ryan at the bottom of the newly drainage-gulley-ified section from Prince Willies - a nice bit of technical entertainment along this section where bunnyhopping skills are the essential trick of the day.


Spun along with the lads for a while until Crone.
We split-up at Crone with Oisin, Dr. Rob, Mel and myself opting for the multi-switchback climb - wooh, what a tough one - the top section has drainage channels every 4 or 5 metres which really take max concentration and timing to get across.
Made it to the top eventually and hammered on down the singletrack. Met up with Richie and Conor down the bottom of the valley and then headed on up the far side, from here, Mel headed off toward Djouce while myself and Oisin headed over the style and caught up with Ollie and the lads.
When we got to the sleepers it was ridiculous - wind was just blasting us sideways off the boards every few metres - Ryan had warned us about the gales but we couldn't let Ollie and the lads get one-up one us, we were off the boards nearly as much as we were on them, finally got to the end then down into Ballinastoe and headed home via the road as we were just too wrecked for Djouce/Powerscourt.
60 tough km altogther, I was weak with hunger by Enniskerry, thankfully Oisin had some surplus nosh in the form of a Tracker bar and ham sambo - chomped them down and that gave me enough energy for the rest of the trip home - thanks Oisin!
The stream water running off B'stoe is very nice by the way - I'd definitely recommend it when you're looking at empty water bottles!
Thanks also to Richie for the lumps of syrupy flapjack which tasted really really good, must shop at Tesco in Naas from now on...

This comment was originally posted at 8:45 on 28th January 2008.nnwell, I had a big bowl of porridge, with raisins, nuts and sugar, then 2 nutri-grain type bars during the spin, but really messed-up not taking energy gels or money - what was I thinking?...anyway, the flapjacks certainly helped, definitely need more food/bars etc.. for the next one, next time we have to get Djouce and Powerscourt in, though I doubt somehow whether we'd entertain this type of a spin on a Saturday before a K-Capital race!

[Morgan]

This comment was originally posted at 22:00 on 28th January 2008.nnThe Connacht race was good fun. Really short course - 14 laps for seniors! Not very technical but there was a short climb, a short descent and a jump. Big ring for the entire race. Came 4th in the end, although I did an extra lap and thought I'd worked my way up to third. Alas.
Thinking of heading to one of the Munster races now. We'll have to get some kind of club league going before the K-Capitals too.

This comment was originally posted at 22:03 on 28th January 2008.nnDevestated (that a bit much? Nah....) not to get out. Weather on Sunday was incredible. Will be back for savageness gone deadly this week!!!!

This comment was originally posted at 11:16 on 29th January 2008.nnJust myself and Belgian Nigel out last night, nice easy pace on the uphills since we're both savage(ly unfit) followed by some great descents on nice mostly dry tracks, though they'll be nice and muddy again now i'd imagine.


That new track near the end of the boneshaker is mental .. thankfully am far too chicken to attempt anything without taking a good look first, otherwise i'd have ended up in a heap at the bottom of that gap jump!


Timed it all well too .. the lights died about 5 minutes into the road spin home

This comment was originally posted at 22:34 on 29th January 2008.nncheers tom .. good to be back out on it .. though i suspect this weekend might be a total loss again (in biking terms) due to boozing and women!


not that i'm complaining mind you!


;-)

[Morgan]

This comment was originally posted at 21:19 on 3rd February 2008.nnTest comment.