Wicklow 200 - 13th June 2010

Captain Havoc

Vélo wrote: »

I wonder will we see anyone doing the WW200 on the Dublin Bikes Scheme bikes?

I think you should propose this to blorg

Jawgap

....entry is now open.

I've "thrown my hat over the wall" - signed up for the 200!

ROK ON

Start in Gteystones.

Then onto Enniskerry for similar route to Shay Elliott. Then back to gteystones via Rathdrum, Avocaand Ashford.

lescol

W200 entry is now open!

Have paid, so am now committed to training. Bring on June 13th:D

Lumen

See, 3 into 1 does go

threads merged

Jawgap

Behold the power of the mod overlord!!!!:)

Blowfish

Is it just me or is there nowhere near as much climbing as last year? Maybe I'm missing something, but even as a newbie I'm kind of wishing it was a bit tougher.

mloc123

no UCD.. end of an era, kinda

Raam

Blowfish wrote: »

Is it just me or is there nowhere near as much climbing as last year? Maybe I'm missing something, but even as a newbie I'm kind of wishing it was a bit tougher.

Ride faster

lafors

Blowfish wrote: »

Is it just me or is there nowhere near as much climbing as last year? Maybe I'm missing something, but even as a newbie I'm kind of wishing it was a bit tougher.

Raam wrote: »

Ride faster

Do it on a fixie

I've entered too, need something to encourage me to get out during the miserable Irish winter!

Blowfish

Raam wrote: »

Ride faster

True, plus from looking at it, I've an extra ~25km trip each way to get to/from it.

Caroline_ie

Ah feck i was in a meeting will never have a low number now ...

mfdc

God damn it... cycling back from Greystones afterwards is going to suck, especially if the weather is bad UCD and the Wicklow 250 last year wasn't too bad, but an extra 40k on top of that will be a killer.

e: Ah hell and I've just realised that it means getting up at 4am to cycle down... bring back UCD

interested

Ive no idea regarding reasoning behind the change of start/finish and would have thought the route almost identical to last year apart from the initial 15 km and final 30 or 40.

I would reckon that the start and more specifically the finish in Greystones will be safer than trundling down through stepaside and in/around dundrum. Traffic on the newcastle/kilcoole road to Greystones should be non-existent as opposed to Enniskerry village on a sunday afternoon in June.

Chips Lovell

Start/finish in Greystones mean it will be more like the Wicklow 250 for me.

blorg

Missed that, start in Greystones is a pain in the neck to be honest.

Caroline_ie

blorg wrote: »

Missed that, start in Greystones is a pain in the neck to be honest.

Maybe the burgers and chips will be nicer ?

Beasty

Blowfish wrote: »

Is it just me or is there nowhere near as much climbing as last year? Maybe I'm missing something, but even as a newbie I'm kind of wishing it was a bit tougher.

Total ascent per Mapmyride was 1,815m in 2009 and will be 1,678m in 2010, an overall reduction of 7.5%
An extra 1.52km distance to make up for it though:)

Blowfish

Last time I was down in Greystones, there was an Asian place that did an all you can eat buffet on Sunday afternoons for €10. Wonder what they'd think of several hundred people in Lycra descending on them.

Beasty wrote: »

Total ascent per Mapmyride was 1,815m in 2009 and will be 1,678m in 2010, an overall reduction of 7.5%
An extra 1.52km distance to make up for it though:)

Ah ok, must have misremembered. I thought it was about 2,300m last year.

Lumen

Blowfish wrote: »

Ah ok, must have misremembered. I thought it was about 2,300m last year.

Garmin meters, probably.

Beasty

Blowfish wrote: »

Ah ok, must have misremembered. I thought it was about 2,300m last year.

It probably was, but Mapmyride significantly understates it (that's why I compared both of their figures)

Hopefully 665 participants will not have registered before me this time:)

blorg

Blowfish wrote: »

Ah ok, must have misremembered. I thought it was about 2,300m last year.

Depends on how you measure it; Garmins would put it substantially higher as they count every little undulation while MMR averages it out more.

72hundred

Greystones start. A little inconvenient, I really don't fancy the Wicklow 300 (including cycle from C'knock)!

fletch

Thank God for my THULE 591 Pro Ride Roof Carrier that's all I'm saying

Beasty

fletch wrote: »

Thank God for my THULE 591 Pro Ride Roof Carrier that's all I'm saying

Thank God for my big boot that's all I'm saying:)

ROK ON

Disappointed that main part of route is unchanged.
Would like to see Long Hill, Lugalla, Sally Gap, Wicklow Gap, SM & SE then Sally gap from Laragh down to Kippure Holiday camp and up the back of Kippure.
Btw my fantasy WW200 would start at bottom of stocking lane.

MadHatter

I won't be doing it this time, heading off on holidays on Fri 11th.

So if anybody wants to borrow a couple of Thule Outride bike carriers for the trek to Greystones you are more than welcome

dario28

Any-one got link to blogs on the day, do ya stop at shops along the way for munch

Training plans

General time plan for someone who is sub 85 min half marathon fit - and will be first big bike event

Anything else I should need to know

When will it sell out

Blowfish

dario28 wrote: »

Any-one got link to blogs on the day, do ya stop at shops along the way for munch

Training plans

General time plan for someone who is sub 85 min half marathon fit - and will be first big bike event

Anything else I should need to know

When will it sell out

Last years thread. Lot's of stuff in there, most of it wont have changed.

Lumen

dario28 wrote: »

General time plan for someone who is sub 85 min half marathon fit - and will be first big bike event

Get a few 100km spins in beforehand, you'll be fine. Sub-8 hours no problem with that level of fitness.

I can run that fast too. For about a minute.