NPS season under way
The NPS season kicked off with a great race up north on sunday, in Glenarm Forest Park. MAD had a sizable contingent, with 8 of us taking to the start line (plus Cait from UCD who was honorary MAD for the day), on a course that included some tight twisty singletrack, some fast straight singletrack, some sketchy gripless sections and a killer steep fireroad climb.
Cait had a great race taking 2nd in the Elite ladies with Mel taking a well deserved 3rd place in her first race of the season, for MADs only official podium. Unfortunately for Judith the mechanical chain gremlins struck causing her to retire.
In the U16s class, Shane took 4th wiht Ciaran just behind in 5th place.
The sports race was great fun, despite chasing hard i just could not catch Daniel who took 7th place for MAD, with myself in 8th, Arek in 10th and Mr Diamond taking a great 13th in his first ever race. Hopefully we’ll get some good photos courtesy of Marta who was busily snapping away whenever i walked up any of the hills (dammit).
Round 2 takes place in Ballinastoe next Sunday which is so close to us that there’s no excuse for not getting out and giving it a try. As Tom would say .. Bring on the Power!
April 30th, 2007 at 11:38 am
And thanks for Paddy doing the bottles and the lend of his pump!
April 30th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Well done folks.
Some great results in there
April 30th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Congratulation to everybody, I’ll have cd with heroes’ photos in Ballynastoe. Full make up and some suntan for sunday please, I’ll do more photos!
Marta
April 30th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Good game guys
Certainly looked like mad brought THE POWER to that race! Lets push for a massive attendance at Ballinastoe
April 30th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Well done!, some great results there people,…might even b tempted to do B/stoe myself, MAD are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with,… BOTP!!!
May 1st, 2007 at 11:50 am
lolz rofflez
May 1st, 2007 at 3:21 pm
oh and if any nice people out there can offer a lift on sunday it would be most appreciated!
May 1st, 2007 at 5:00 pm
lolz rofflez??
May 1st, 2007 at 8:57 pm
I can offer one, maybe two lifts on Sunday. I’m aiming to be there for 9-30 ish if thats ok. I dont want goodies or anything for the lift, but a loan of a jersey would gaurantee a lift home as well as your choice of music for the journey ( so long as i approve !)
Does anybody know what course is being used? Will some of the DH course be in it?
conor.conneff @ Gmail….
May 1st, 2007 at 11:43 pm
get with the internet linguo tom!
sheesh!
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:36 am
Hey Conor
not even the organisers know the route yet, everything is quite vague about this race, but people from various clubs (I’m one of them) have offered Sorrento a hand-out so I expecting a good race as a result.
Anyone that’s free to lend a hand on Saturday please let me know.
Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
What advantages would helping on Saturday bring?
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:46 am
first bit i get, but… rofflez.,,,,help me out here
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
i dont get it either!
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:35 pm
jeez you’re all so out of touch with the mop headed youth of today (i.e nigel!)
haha
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 pm
err….advantages?…errrr….too many to list I’m sure, just can’t think of one offhand…….errrr…oh yeah, you’d get very familiar with the technical aspects of the massive amount of fireroad - cool!!!
May 6th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
hey Arek, those photos are really good, I’ll try get them uploaaded really soon