Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
Thursday
- Race/race training - MAD Club course - Outside Ticknock car park 7.30pm. Everyone welcome including other clubs! Please leave your cars outside the gate.
Saturday
- Early Spin - Massies and Hellfire - 7am (Shane Lavelle)
- Martin’s Fun Ride
Meeting:- Taylors for 10am
To:- 3rock - 1/2 way up FC and onto WW - to Woccas - over to wet Tibradden - down Boulderdash - through Pineforest - blast down Masseys trail (conditions in this section are fine) - Taylors (pint of Miwadee and packet of king crisps!….. ).
Duration:- 3hrs hrs max
Fergal’s gang are more than welcome to join us for the tibradden and boulderdash decents if they like
(more bodies flying through the air and you will get to see Ben doing his Spiderman 2 impression down boulderdash!! that’s a treat!) - Fast Sat spin - Taylor’s pub at 830am.
Map to Taylor’s pub
Sunday
- Connacht XC League, Clarenbridge Co. Galway. Stephen Scrivener will be doing this. Please contact him for race details.
- We’re going to do a fairly long spin around Crone and Djouce. Pace will be constant - ‘awesome to savage level’. We will meet at Crone car-park at 10am. Map here - http://iol.ie/~imra/map_location_crone.html . If you have a lift to offer then please post a comment on the website blog.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
Nigel
0879335403 poloholemint@gmail.com
February 28th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
if there are any lifts going from south dublin to Crone on Sunday, may I have one please?
Nigel 0879335403
February 28th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
If anyone has space, could I get a lift to Taylors for Saturday for Martin’s fun spin? Am in Cabra, but can meet in city centre too!
Cheers!
February 28th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Hey, this should be a good week for MAD by the looks of things!
If anybody is interested in racing on Sunday please contact me and state whether you need or can offer a lift. stephen_scrivener@yahooDOTco.uk
This is the perfect chance to fine tune or develop race tactics for the k Capital cup (which is next week!!)
February 28th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I’ll be heading down to Clarenbridge as well Steve - but down on Friday and back on Monday.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
i am going to but on saturday so no can do with a lift i have directions and a bad google earth map if you want it
March 1st, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Martin’s Fun spin sounds great. Can non-members just show up or should they contact someone first? If so who?
FYI I’ve been cycling/commuting for years and MTBing at weekends for the last 6 months. I’m well used to climbing so shouldn’t slow anyone down.
Cheers, David.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:55 pm
david
just come along meeting at taylors at 10
if ypu need more info
contact me at
shane.geoghegan@gmail.com or
0862110505 phone after 3.30 please
March 1st, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Thanks for the reply Shane. It would be great to hook up with a gang that knows the way! Maybe see you Sat. Cheers.
David
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 am
a 7am spin? …and people were saying 8:30am was early..good luck with the attendance at that one
I may be joining the 8:30 one, my flight gets in at 6am, depends on whether I get any sleep on the plane….god I feel fat!
big-ass breakfasts (more like dinners, just with coffee), genuine Italian-American pizzas and the best cheesecake in the country…yep, K-Cap training is goin’ REAL well….mmmm…now where did I leave that donut….
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
Good spin on Three Rock last night. There was a respectable turnout - I’d guess about 14 brave souls. Starting from the aerials we did laps down the boneshaker, into the woods to the big gap jump and then back up to the aerials, all at top speed. After five laps I was getting pretty tired and the descending got very ropey - a few crashes on the descent. Finally managed six laps - Ryan was on around 8. People headed off when they’d had enough but four of us (Oisin, Ryan, Nigel and myself) stayed on and rode the full club course and then down towards the blue light and home. Started to get a tiny leg cramp on the way home so I think I’d done enough for one night - nearly 4 hours on the bike, not bad for mid-week.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 am
Last night was savage. For anyone wanting to get fit for racing that’s a great wee course. The steep section meant you really had to pedal and balance the bike properly and then fly on on the tarmac… Then make sure your not to tired for the boneshaker and the sloppy section through the forest.
Checked my Garmin when I got back - I did 9 laps
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:38 am
Morgan,
Great stuff last night! did 4 laps with Richie, Shane L and Colm and we blasted back to the cars from the ariels! If that does not get you fit nothing will….
I’ve a long way to go but that savage Ryan! DEADLY!! I was convienced he’s a 1.8 deisel engine on the rothar! more power to yah Ryan!
Great turn-out and two new faces!
in recovert mode for Sat
Martin
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm
me legs!!!!!
Saturday was great though. Good to join up with Martin’s group after the 830 spin.
Any offers for a lift on Sunday? will bring sweeties
0879335403
Nigel
March 3rd, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Great ride today lads! big turn out as per usual! a few regulars and a few new faces!
nice one Fergal, Nigel et al for joining us and partaking in the mud bath on tribradden!
Rock On,
Martin
See yis all at race training on Thursday!
March 3rd, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Thanks to Martin and all at MAD for making me welcome on your 10 am spin on Saturday. Really enjoyed it and hope to see you again in the not too distant future.
David
March 3rd, 2007 at 5:44 pm
nice one Fergal, Nigel et al for joining us and partaking in the mud bath on tribradden!
Thanks for the honourable mention!!!
I have to concur, that was a great day’s riding. Early morning start with 4 of us booting around 3 rock, then joined Martin’s gang of 16(!!) for a trip over the Col du Fairycastle and Mont Tibradden.
Great spin, great weather, great group
Sean
March 3rd, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Sean, your like the background staff! it would never happen without your presence!
ROCK ON !
March 3rd, 2007 at 8:54 pm
in the words of our glorious leader,
ROCK ON!!!!
March 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
lovely weather and a great gang out today.
The early spin was ideal, good pace and good to see Sean back out on a ‘proper’ bike!
some of the newer people were flying today, particularly Karen, on her sisters bike, ripping along, great to see it.
David looked like he was having fun too, a great choice of new bike on his part I must say…Martin would agree too…
Oisin ‘FitzSavage’ was in top form again, he’ll be having fun come race time….
Nigel’s new bike was looking hot - until Tibradden, where half of it got sucked by a swampy bog, as did most of everyone’s bikes.
’til the next time mud lovers!
Fergal
March 4th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Crone to Djouce spin is cancelled due to weather concerns.
It’s awful out that way at the moment and is going to get worse.
I’m trying to text as many people as I can.
Apologies,
Nigel
March 5th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Shame about the bad weather on Sunday. It cleared up later in the afternoon but the ground would still have been totally water logged. A lot of roads were flooded around Wicklow. I should have gone biking on Saturday instead.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Yeah, im the same Oisin. Held out for the race on Sunday by studying on Saturday. Weather was too miserable to bother at all then…
March 5th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
steve ross would have given you a lift to the race on sunday should have asked him aswell
March 5th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Nah, myself and Alan decided against it. Was storm gales blowing the whole way over apparently…
March 5th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Who is “steve ross”?
March 5th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I wiil hazard a guess that he is the punctuation elf, who steals comma’s..
..Steve, Ross would have etc…
March 6th, 2007 at 9:59 am
March 6th, 2007 at 10:15 am
the weather picked up over that way
it was lashing up to about 10 then it stoped
ryan i forgot to put the coma in