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Orwell Randonnee 2015

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  • 12-02-2015 6:13pm
    #1
    Ghosty669
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭


    Hi folks,
    Just wanted to let people know that we are finalizing the details for this years Orwell Randonnee and I'll be able to share them out next week.

    The date to keep free is the 2nd of May and the start/finish will be the same location.

    Once again, we've changed the route to keep things fresh and I can honestly say that this years route is the hardest we've ever had!

    We're keeping numbers again at 300 people so early entry is advised as we normally are well overbooked.

    Thanks


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    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Looking forward to getting back to this as I missed it last year on the morning of the event!


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    bazermc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    Love this event

    But worried with the line "hardest we've ever had". How is that possible?


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    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    bazermc wrote: »
    Love this event

    But worried with the line "hardest we've ever had". How is that possible?

    More ups and less downs and or flats!

    No carrot cake.


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    bazermc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭bazermc


    What distance is the spin/randonne generally?


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    quozl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    140km


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    check_six
    Registered Users Posts: 2,245 ✭✭✭check_six


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    More ups and less downs and or flats!

    No carrot cake.


    No carrot cake???? You monster!

    What kind of fiend could even conceive such a thing?

    Don't be putting ideas in their head!


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    Ghosty669
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭Ghosty669


    Good to see that the carrot cake is still valued!

    Fresh off the presses, here's this years details : http://www.orwellwheelers.org/events/748-randonnee-2015


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    daragh_
    Registered Users Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Now that's a decent leg stretcher.


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    #10
    quozl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    Signed up :)


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    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    I'll be doing exams. Pity


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    monkeyslayer
    Registered Users Posts: 911 ✭✭✭monkeyslayer


    Nice, I'm in. I don't have a cycling Ireland liscence, will I need to pay more on the day?


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    irishrover99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    Just signed up. Looking forward to it.


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    lissard
    Registered Users Posts: 531 ✭✭✭lissard


    Now that's one tough route, first 50k has a serious amount of climbing. If only the descent from Glencree to the base of the Wall were smooth - maybe one day Wicklow County Council will tidy it up but I'd say it's low on their list. Will definitely be there again - easily the best day out I had last year.


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    andy69
    Registered Users Posts: 661 ✭✭✭andy69


    I'm in :)

    Nice warm-up for the Marmotte :cool:


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    Ghosty669
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭Ghosty669


    monkeyslayer wrote: »
    Nice, I'm in. I don't have a cycling Ireland liscence, will I need to pay more on the day?

    No extra charge. You'll just need to sign an additional form on the day.


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    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,952 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Just signed up :).

    (Hopefully I'll have survived/recovered from LBL the Saturday before!)


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    Luxman
    Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Luxman


    Really tempted by this one, I am being selective this year with events otherwise I will be divcorced. Having done the WW200 past 2 years and this being being described in the past as similar but 'without the flats bits' I will sign up if its possible to sell my entry if I cannot go?


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    The tax man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭The tax man


    Signed up.


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    Jim Stynes
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Jim Stynes


    would love to sign up but i have the 200km Big Italian Bike Ride in Belfast the next day. Surely I wouldnt be fit for both


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    imskilguy
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭imskilguy


    Jim Stynes wrote: »
    would love to sign up but i have the 200km Big Italian Bike Ride in Belfast the next day. Surely I wouldnt be fit for both

    go for it Jim, you only live once :)
    Last year I did the Slieve Bloom Challenge the next day and thats my plan this year too (hopefully).
    I skipped the second feedstop on the Slieve Bloom (well only because the crew I was with wanted to skip it). I suffered in the final 14km (of 160km) because I had ran out of food. Dont know what it'd be like to do 200km the next day but if you got food into you quick and drove up and got a good rest, it'd be fine


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    whacker00
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭whacker00


    Was only on the Orwell site earlier this week looking for the dates

    Signed up

    Really suffered on it last year and it does not look like it gets any easier :):) can't wait


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    Doc07
    Registered Users Posts: 973 ✭✭✭Doc07


    Signed up, let's do it.


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    #24
    Jim Stynes
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Jim Stynes


    imskilguy wrote: »
    go for it Jim, you only live once :)
    Last year I did the Slieve Bloom Challenge the next day and thats my plan this year too (hopefully).
    I skipped the second feedstop on the Slieve Bloom (well only because the crew I was with wanted to skip it). I suffered in the final 14km (of 160km) because I had ran out of food. Dont know what it'd be like to do 200km the next day but if you got food into you quick and drove up and got a good rest, it'd be fine

    I don't know if I would be fit for 2400m of climbing on sat and then 2000m on the sunday, this early in the season. Although I am going to climb Mt Teide in April. That should help me!

    Why is this event so good? I like the look of the challenge!


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    billyhead
    Registered Users Posts: 9,543 ✭✭✭billyhead


    Tempted to do this as prep for the WW200. Did it in 2013 and found it brilliantly marshalled and the burger at the end was savage. Thought it was better then the WW200 personally as their are less crowds and not as much waiting at the food stop and oh yeh the carrot cake :D


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    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,952 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    billyhead wrote: »
    Tempted to do this as prep for the WW200. Did it in 2013 and found it brilliantly marshalled and the burger at the end was savage. Thought it was better then the WW200 personally as their are less crowds and not as much waiting at the food stop and oh yeh the carrot cake :D
    We could have a nice warm up spin from Rush to the start and a recovery spin on the way home to make it a 250k! :cool:


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah no will miss it this year. Great and tough event.


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    #28
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    In.

    Need an incentive to shift the great bulging gut.


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    #29
    WHEELSX2
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭WHEELSX2


    Now you're talkin. Smokin hot randonnee.


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    marty_crane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭marty_crane


    I'm in. 2nd time to do it-5 years after the first go.

    Was a great day then so I presume nothing's changed.


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    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users Posts: 6,367 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    marty_crane wrote: »
    Was a great day then so I presume nothing's changed.

    Nothing except the level of suffering apparently :D

    "we've changed the route to keep things fresh and I can honestly say that this years route is the hardest we've ever had!"

    I considered this till I googled The wall :eek: I don't think my sparrow leg would carry me up that on a triple :D


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