Orwell Randonnee 2014

Orwell Randonnee · 30-04-2014 1:21pm

Hi

The water stop is in Manor Kilbride with the main food stop in Laragh.

Regards

buffalo wrote: »

I might be missing this detail somewhere, but where's the food stop this year? I need to know how long I'll have to race to be first for cake!

Lusk_Doyle · 30-04-2014 1:26pm

Orwell Randonnee wrote: »

Hi

Thanks for that. We are driving the course tonight and will check it out.

Regards

A real man would ride the course to get the absolute most authentic feel for it in order to report back.

StaggerLee · 30-04-2014 1:28pm

Left it way to late. If anyone has a spare entry, I'll take it. PM me.

Orwell Randonnee · 30-04-2014 2:36pm

It is a bit awkward to "cycle" the course and to carry road marking material as well.

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quote="Lusk_Doyle;90170964"]A real man would ride the course to get the absolute most authentic feel for it in order to report back.[/quote]

Lumen · 30-04-2014 3:06pm

Orwell Randonnee wrote: »

It is a bit awkward to "cycle" the course and to carry road marking material as well.

First world problem. Third world solution.

Peterx · 30-04-2014 3:41pm

buffalo wrote: »

Also, where are the major Strava KOM segments that I should be concentrating on? Will these be marked on the course?

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Lusk_Doyle · 30-04-2014 3:48pm

Orwell Randonnee wrote: »

It is a bit awkward to "cycle" the course and to carry road marking material as well.

That's what your domestiques are for, silly!

J Madone · 01-05-2014 8:02am

Wold be very grateful for an unused entry if anyone can't make it..
Thanks in advance
J M

smcclaw · 01-05-2014 8:56am

Also looking for a spare entry if available

audiRon · 01-05-2014 9:20am

I won't be able to make it on Saturday. PM me your details and we can arrange a swap

smacl · 01-05-2014 9:29am

Also won't be able make it this Saturday for anyone looking for an entry. Second year in a row missing it, which is a royal pain.

billyhead · 01-05-2014 9:49am

I have a spare entry available which I already send a pm to SmcClaw and JMadone too to let them know before the folow up posts by Audiron and smacl

Fig roller · 01-05-2014 10:24am

Orwell Randonnee wrote: »

Hi

Just to let anyone who has registered for the event an email will be going out to everyone in the next couple of days with information about the day and the option to register on the Friday night before the event.

Looking forward to seeing you all on the 3rd -

Has this email been sent out yet as I have yet to get one (have received registration confirmation email)

outfox · 01-05-2014 10:30am

Fig roller wrote: »

Has this email been sent out yet as I have yet to get one (have received registration confirmation email)

Received it yesterday.

doozerie · 01-05-2014 10:50am

buffalo wrote: »

Also, where are the major Strava KOM segments that I should be concentrating on? Will these be marked on the course?

I think that the food stop should be at the base/start of the toughest climb/KOM of the day, to aid in the cake-digesting process. If you don't get the KOM, you have to go back down to eat more motivational cake and try again.

buffalo · 01-05-2014 11:27am

doozerie wrote: »

I think that the food stop should be at the base/start of the toughest climb/KOM of the day, to aid in the cake-digesting process. If you don't get the KOM, you have to go back down to eat more motivational cake and try again.

If it worked for Rás Mumhan...

J Madone · 01-05-2014 3:32pm

billyhead wrote: »

I have a spare entry available which I already send a pm to SmcClaw and JMadone too to let them know before the folow up posts by Audiron and smacl

Thanks for all the messing , after pm-ing me to say I could have it and agreeing on payment he sells it to someone else, better to keep it in thread from now on,
First class messer.

J Madone · 01-05-2014 3:33pm

audiRon wrote: »

I won't be able to make it on Saturday. PM me your details and we can arrange a swap

Hello Is entry still available?
Thanks

smacl · 01-05-2014 3:35pm

J Madone wrote: »

Hello Is entry still available?
Thanks

I still have an entry here if you're interested.

audiRon · 01-05-2014 3:45pm

J Madone wrote: »

Hello Is entry still available?
Thanks

PM sent

J Madone · 01-05-2014 4:47pm

smacl wrote: »

I still have an entry here if you're interested.

Hello, im meeting up with Audiron tomorrow, his was the first reply in thread to keep it fair,
Thanks for the offer all the same

smacl · 01-05-2014 5:00pm

J Madone wrote: »

Hello, im meeting up with Audiron tomorrow, his was the first reply in thread to keep it fair,
Thanks for the offer all the same

No worries, enjoy the event.

abc_xyz · 01-05-2014 5:17pm

I'm looking for an entry if yours is still free smacl?

smacl · 01-05-2014 5:35pm

abc_xyz wrote: »

I'm looking for an entry if yours is still free smacl?

Yep, PM sent.

J Madone · 01-05-2014 5:44pm

Is there much to getting the names changed for new participants for entrants who cant make it?

brayblue24 · 01-05-2014 5:44pm

I have a spare entry here due to injury if anyone needs it

Orwell Randonnee · 01-05-2014 6:38pm

If you want to swap entries we need to know the same details as you filled in when registering as we need to have it on the sign on sheets.

All transfers need to be with us by 23.00 tonight

J Madone wrote: »

Is there much to getting the names changed for new participants for entrants who cant make it?

smacl · 01-05-2014 8:41pm

Orwell Randonnee wrote: »

If you want to swap entries we need to know the same details as you filled in when registering as we need to have it on the sign on sheets.

All transfers need to be with us by 23.00 tonight

Looks like may well go unused so, no response as yet from abc_xyz and I wasn't planning on using the computer again this evening. Free for whoever wants it, I'll check again briefly at about 22:30.

MD1983 · 01-05-2014 8:54pm

smacl & brayblue24

ill take both entries it if still available? I am looking for two entries PM me please if they are available.

thanks

MD

brayblue24 · 01-05-2014 8:57pm

MD1983 wrote: »

smacl & brayblue24

ill take both entries it if still available? I am looking for two entries PM me please if they are available.

thanks

MD

Yeah mine is here. I'll send you a PM now

smacl · 01-05-2014 9:19pm

MD1983 wrote: »

smacl & brayblue24

ill take both entries it if still available? I am looking for two entries PM me please if they are available.

thanks

MD

PM sent, all yours. Enjoy!

abc_xyz · 01-05-2014 10:03pm

Any entries still free? Looks like I missed the window on smacl

clog · 01-05-2014 10:59pm

I've one PM me quick

abc_xyz · 01-05-2014 11:11pm

clog wrote: »

I've one PM me quick

PM sent

Orwell Randonnee · 01-05-2014 11:20pm

Can you send the details to the email address orwellrandonnee at gmail.com

Orwell Randonnee · 01-05-2014 11:45pm

Folks

This is just to let you know that we are no longer taking Transfers of entries as the Sign On Sheets etc need to be printed off in time for the event.

For everyone who has registered thank you - for the people who transferred their entries over to other people thank you as well.

Once the event has been completed and we have time to recover I will post links to the photo's of the event - remember to smile.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday.

slap/dash · 02-05-2014 12:01pm

Second thoughts now: sick until a few days ago and bike in shop all week. Imma suffer amarach

J Madone · 02-05-2014 1:05pm

audiRon wrote: »

PM sent

Thanks Audiron for a hassle free deal

daragh_ · 03-05-2014 8:28am

Enjoy the day all.

If anyone wants to bring me home some cake that would be nice.

03-05-2014 3:51pm

Great but tough day out. I didn't do the turn off for Enniskerry and just continued on home, because I was struggling. The food stop was amazing. 137km all in for me.

Am looking forward to seeing the photos to see my descent into suffering from happy (viewpoint) to not happy (Wicklow Gap).

Now to order and eat all the takeaway food.

The tax man · 03-05-2014 4:37pm

I was very tempted to do the same and take the shortest route home from Glencree but the lure of the burger and chips was too strong.:)

Cramped coming up Glenmacnass and had to take it easy from there to the finish. Thank god for that tail wind from Laragh.

Big thanks and well done to Orwell for a great event,brilliant food stop in Laragh and at the finish. Also fair play to those marshals that braved the elements up over the Gap and along the descent to Powerscourt, warning riders of the dodgy surface and bends.

Absolutely knackered now.

DaithiMC · 03-05-2014 4:52pm

daragh_ wrote: »

Enjoy the day all.

If anyone wants to bring me home some cake that would be nice.

It was a good day - thanks Orwell for a well organised event, friendly marshalls, and a great course.

Daragh, not sure you would have wanted a bit of the carrot cake having been dragged over Glenmacnass and Sally Gap! Actually, by Enniskerry it would have been too tempting for me regardless of its state!

slowcyclist · 03-05-2014 4:58pm

Thanks all at Orwell; excellent event again.

goose06 · 03-05-2014 5:58pm

Great job, first time doing it and the carrot cake lived up to it's reputation.

nilhg · 03-05-2014 6:06pm

First time for me to do this event, very impressed with the whole organisation and marshalling, really well thought out and organised, plenty of food at the stop and I think the minestrone soup brought life back to my broken spirit.

Great to to see a part of the country that I'd never been to before, I know they're close enough to me but I'd never been to Glencullen or Glencree before, or up over the featherbeds.

I hope the chap who came off coming down the Sally Gap towards Blessington is OK, I came by a minute or two after it happened, plenty of people with him so didn't stop but it looked a nasty one.

Wishbone Ash · 03-05-2014 6:15pm

There was some sort of incident on the Wicklow Gap road near Turlough Hill at around 3pm. Several ambulances and a Garda car left the scene and headed towards Laragh. I was hoping no cyclists were involved but I couldn't see as I was way back in a traffic queue. The road was closed for about 20 or 30 minutes.

Lumen · 03-05-2014 6:22pm

Sometimes I see people stranded pathetically at a sportive and my inner fake-audaxer* thinks "pah! fix your own bike! where's your self-sufficiency?".

Well, today that clown was me. After 50km my front mech cable snapped, so I continued on the 34t.

Then at 70km my 11sp chain snapped on the way up Wicklow Gap.

Card out, on the phone to mechanical support, chain fixed and on my way in a few minutes for another 70km or so of spinning and coasting on the small ring.

I therefore declare the Randonee clown-proof. Great day out, flawless organisation.

Hope the crashees are OK.

(* I'm too weak to be a real audaxer)

slap/dash · 03-05-2014 6:24pm

good day. cramped climbing out of laragh but wasnt so bad. the final 20k or so started to hurt. well done all

purple cow · 03-05-2014 6:43pm

Saw one of the guys who crashed. He was dropped back to St. Benildu's at the finish. Apparently he needed 40 stitches in his head, he was fairly well bandaged up. He was from the Lakeside Wheelers club. Was talking to one of his club mates at the end. One of the ladies from the club was taken to hospital with concussion after falling at Wicklow gap.

Fantastic organisation. The marshalling was top class. Will definitely do again next year.

Hope all from the Lakeside Wheelers are OK

Zen0 · 03-05-2014 6:57pm

Thanks to all at Orwell. Fantastic day out.

Orwell Randonnee 2014

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