Race Around Ireland on the road

emtroche

All the solo's are underway in the Race Around Ireland. A big crowd turned out in Navan with an even bigger crowd expected on Wednesday night for the teams.

Postitions so far at Time Station 1 at 42.7 miles:
1 Joe Barr 2hr 7min
2 Paul Nolan 2hr 15min
2 Holger Roethig 2hr 15min
4 Mark Pattinson 2hr 18min
5 Fabio Biasiolo 2hr 22 min

emtroche

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Raam

At least one Boards poster is on this, Shaungil.
Hope it goes well.

Greenman

Heard about it on the Pat Kenny show, I wish them well.

I remember doing the 1,000 K in 1988 and the 1,200 K in 1990 there was not too much traffic on the road in those days.

I liked the night riding.

emtroche

Few photos of the start

One of Joe Barrs weapons. Check out the handlebars! Joe has 2 campervans, a van, a car, 2 motorbikes and a camera crew with him!!


Italian rider Fabio Biasiolo. World Number 1 ultra marathon cyclist and true legend.




Click here for more photos

emtroche

Mark Pattinsons crew are posting regular updates on twitter

sy

Great photos emtroche, especially the one of Fabio Biasiolo striding towards his destiny! See he is prepared for the Irish Summer. Used to race with PJ Nolan many moons ago.

emtroche

Forgot to credit Jacqui Sheenan for photos. Thanks Jacqui!

Caroline_ie

I hope the lady wins GO GIRL!!!!!!!! She is the Ultracycling world Champ 2008 and she won the race around Slovenia this year.

Greenman

emtroche wrote: »

Forgot to credit Jacqui Sheenan for photos. Thanks Jacqui!

Yes great photos, how is the weather in Ireland ATM??

emtroche

Weather is pretty good. Bit cold at night but dry. Looks like it might stay dry for the week which would be a minor miracle!

velopeloton

Well done Emmett and all at Navan Road Club.
Best of luck to Paul Nolan.

RobFowl

Raam wrote: »

At least one Boards poster is on this, Shaungil.
Hope it goes well.

A swords cc team as well (mad b*stards )

Raam

RobFowl wrote: »

A swords cc team as well (mad b*stards )

Gonna have to keep an eye on their progress on the site. They were in the paper a few weeks ago (North County Leader, I think?)

@Emtroche, if you see the Swords lads, wish them well

RobFowl

Caroline_ie wrote: »

I hope the lady wins GO GIRL!!!!!!!! She is the Ultracycling world Champ 2008 and she won the race around Slovenia this year.

It's a strange one but in ultra endurance events it's thought women have the potential to be faster than men.

Nice story here about Beryl Burton the greatest British cyclist ever !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton

In 1967, she set a new 12-hour time trial record of 277.25 miles – a mark that surpassed the men’s record of the time by 0.73 miles and was not superseded by a man until 1969.While setting the record she caught and passed Mike McNamara who was on his way to setting the men's record at 276.52 miles and winning that year's men's British Best All-Rounder. She is reputed to have given him a liquorice allsort as she passed him. Apparently, McNamara ate the sweet.

ednwireland

fastest time through donegal town 3am tomorrow morning dont think i'll stay up may take the camera out for stragglers tomorrow

read that schedule completely wrong 6:15 tonight will be out with camera

emtroche

Joe Barr has reached Time Station 4 at Mlin Head. Time of 14hrs 10mins. 16.7mph average.

Fabio is in second place at 15hrs 09 mins.

blorg

Good luck to all competing and hope you do well with the weather. Having ridden with Joe leading our group in the Tour of Ireland sportive I would have to hope for him to win, great guy and savage rider. Having held many of the long distance Irish records I hope his local knowledge and indeed acclimatisation to our weather and roads comes through for him.

As a side note the miles are doing my head in, I am having to convert it all back into metric, the system most of this island uses

emtroche

blorg wrote: »

As a side note the miles are doing my head in, I am having to convert it all back into metric, the system most of this island uses

Theres a downloadable schedule on the website with all the distances in miles and kilometres.

Joe is travelling at 26.9kph

Bikerbhoy

Any ideas on this guys as to where is the closest location to Dublin that we may see Joe Barr and as many riders as possible during daylight hours and what day might we be talking about... Im sure by the time they reach the east coast they will need all the support they can get..



Thanks in advance.

delboyfagan

RAAM,

Derek from swords team here in camper at 7.45pm.

Gilbride is starting from Navan at 8pm and him and Johnnie are doing first four hrs between them.

Myself and Henry ared doing six hr stint from midnight,

I will update during race.

Rgds

ednwireland

terrible photos sorry but nipped out after work, still looking fresh

RobFowl

See Joe Barr is slipping back a bit, still clear in 2nd though. Fabio Biasiolo going clear.

Nice to see the Swords lads going well, 3nd in the team standing averaging over 18 mph (sorry blorg)

Also look at the race number for the ladies team :cool:

blorg

Good luck to you and the rest of the Swords lads Derek!

Esroh

The top 3 teams are coming past my door in the next while anyone got any shoutouts for me to give

Raam

Esroh wrote: »

The top 3 teams are coming past my door in the next while anyone got any shoutouts for me to give

Shout out to the Swords lads from Peter

Esroh

Ok a bit of an update
Team no experience are 27 min on the my clock ahead of An Post Team Connacht (who due to being taken off course by the Gardai at the very start have a 10min allowence) the lead is actually 17 min
Team Swords are just about 50min behind.
They have now gone into the heart of Connemara, where the roads are dead and the climbs although not long(on a normal spin) are going to be a B**T**d after 24 hours. Its also getting cold now.

Saw a few Solo guys this morning and they were suffering
All these Riders deerve respect. If they passing near you check the Timetable and give them a Shout.

honkjelly

Go Joe!! and massive respect to everyone doing it.

honkjelly

Man the penultimate stage is a killer! Slievemane, Shay Elliot and then up to the sally gap cross roads by the glenmacnass waterfall :eek: That's tough enough when your legs are fresh!!

blorg

honkjelly wrote: »

Man the penultimate stage is a killer! Slievemane, Shay Elliot and then up to the sally gap cross roads by the glenmacnass waterfall :eek: That's tough enough when your legs are fresh!!

I think you get to a point where to an extent it doesn't really matter any more. Although certainly you feel the strain going up a hill!

Raam

Some photos here: http://northpolecycling.wetpaint.com/

PeadarCorbally

ednwireland wrote: »

terrible photos sorry but nipped out after work, still looking fresh

Thanks an awful lot for the photos. If anyone else has any please email them to racearoundireland2009@gmail.com. It doesn't matter how bad they are, we want photos for the website. They would be much appriciated

Bikerbhoy

Hi there... can anyone help me ...what time are the first riders due into the last timestation in Enniskerry at as I cant seem to be able to open the schedule on website....thanks

PeadarCorbally

Its 1257.5ml/2023.3km from the Start to Enniskerries. An Post and No Prior should be there sometime around midday tomorrow. Those two teams are having some battle.

Bikerbhoy

PeadarCorbally wrote: »

An Post and No Prior should be there sometime around midday tomorrow..

Thats great thanks alot

blorg

Just thought I'd bump this as the race has completed.

Joe Barr won the solo with only 4 out of 11 starters completing (!) really emphasises what an effort it is.

All teams completed with Team No Prior Experience taking the win- this team includes Boards Time Trial champion superlav (doing RAAM last year probably helped him there too mind.) Swords CC came fourth.

Well done all to everyone taking part.

emtroche

What can i say? After travelling the country for the week all i can say is i'm in total awe. I can honestly say that this has been one of the most incredible experiences i've ever had. What these people have achieved is nothing short of phenomenal. Some of the racers who have ridden RAAM, Race Around Slovenia and other races like this have said without a shadow of a doubt this is the hardest cycling event in the world! I'll try and put up a bit of a report and some photos later as the sleep deprivation has me quite cabbaged!

Well done to everybody who not just finished the race but had the balls to enter it in the first place.

ROK ON

My lift to Killarney train station this morning was passed by a few of the guys heading through Glencar Valley on Friday. He said that one guy overtook him as he was driving and the guy (dressed in blue) was on a bike.
Couldnt get over the speed. I explained to this man what they were doing and he couldnt believe me.

I am pretty disappointed in that the passed by my house, but I couldnt get the timetable on the website to open for me, so I missed seeing them.

Anyway, congrats to that bunch of crazies.

petethedrummer

Has anyone got a ballpark figure for how long Joe Barr would have slept during this event? or would he have slept at all?

blorg

There is an article on Cycling Ulster here that mentions the sleep issue:

Not content with merely completing the event however, the former Irish international took the lead as the race travelled north, passing landmarks such as the Giant’s Causeway ahead of Fabio Biasiolo of Italy. Barr was also leading the race which was granted World Cup status by the Ultra Marathon Cycling Association for 2009 when he tackled the infamous Gap of Mamore in Donegal.

As the race went westwards however, Biasiolo decided to go without sleep in order to take the lead, a decision which may ultimately have proved his downfall. Biasiolo was in front from Sligo until he retired in the early hours of Saturday morning, after passing Kinsale (Cork). The World ranked number 1 endurance cyclist had just checked in at the fourteenth of eighteen time station’s dotted throughout the country.

Joe definitely would have slept, as to how much I don't know. You could possibly have a rough stab based on his average speed for the whole event of 19.70km/hr vs 31.61 km/hr for the winning team who would have had someone on the road at all times.

shaungil

Hi All,

Proper report in a few days. Savage event great fun learnt a lot about myself and the other guys. Started v well actually passed An Post a couple of times on the road and were very near up to Sligo. Then Derek pulled out with an injury so it was all plans out the window with myself and the two other lads now doing much longer stints esp at night.
Mentally was savage but an amazing support crew. My hardest was Clifden To Galway on the bog roads and up some climsb near Oughterard. Lads said I looked drunk gettin off the bike at 5.00 in the morning, I can't remember. About 7 hours sleep in total for me in three and a half days. Maybe 400 miles on bike
Got intoa great battle with the third palce team on the final day as we passed each other ont eh road a few times which reall kept us going. As it got dark on the second last stage we went for it and got into Enniskerry only ten minutes down. But at that stage we were all on empty. 33% more miles on 33% less rest just kicked in and we lost half an hour on the last stage.
Loads learned (bigger crew, use two cars, don't get a rider injured) and definitely would like to give a bash again. Everyone on team and crew has said they want to do again despite the fact we all absolutely trashed ourselves , fell over in van force fed ourselves maybe slept an hour and then got ready for the next stint. As it was a team and we were battling adversity I thnk we went even harder and shows you can give the human body a serious doing over but it can still keep moving. (Blorg think you might have said that)

Will give a more detailed report and more stats on distance when I can get my head together but would highly recommend this event as a mental challenge to you guys.

Shaun

Slideshowbob

any pics up on the web of the event?

hunkymonkey

Well done Shaun, that battle for third place really made the event for my team. Can't recommend this event highly enough to others, the organisers put a huge amount into it. A lot learnt. Enjoy the rest Shaun, ya earned it!

chakattack

Will this be on again next year?

PeadarCorbally

Don't worry the race will be on again next year. Any feedback anyone has about the event would be more than welcome. Caroline Van Den Bulk the only female soloist and 1 of only 4 finishers in the solo event thought it was tougher than RAAM.

billy.fish

petethedrummer wrote: »

Has anyone got a ballpark figure for how long Joe Barr would have slept during this event? or would he have slept at all?

When i run the stats i can give an idea on how much/little the AnPost boys slept anyway

And allot of other things from the blood,saliva, uring, etc we took!

emtroche

Just sorting through a load of photos at the moment. Hope to have them uploaded tonight. Sorry for the delay.

Also apologies for any problems people experienced with the website, whether it was trouble downloading the schedule or slow updates. All this stuff is going to be looked at very closely for next year.

So it looks like there is going to be a next year! I have to say, i'm overwhelmed by the response from people who took part and also from the amount of people enquiring about next year! Although i think you're gonna have to give us a couple of weeks to get over this one!

emtroche

emtroche

Have some more photos uploaded
Solo start by Michael Maree Click Here

Wouldnt think this was Navan!


Fabio Biasiolo


Joe Barr

Team Start by Jacqui Sheenan Click Here

Padraig Marrey (An Post Team Connaught)


Colm Laverty (Team No Prior Experience)


Bikedock Belles

The Race Michael Maree Click Here

Mick Brady (An Post Team Connaught) - Gap of Mamore


Ian Geraghty (Beara 4) - Gap of Mamore

stuartm9999

Any objections to me using one of your mamore gap images on the wild Atlantic way audax website?

Beasty

stuartm9999 wrote: »

Any objections to me using one of your mamore gap images on the wild Atlantic way audax website?

You would need to PM the posters involved directly to seek their permission. I'm closing this thread