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Orwell Sunday Spin Today

  • 07-02-2010 9:35pm
    #1
    LastGasp
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    Headed out this morning on the Orwell Sunday Step-up Spin. Hammered off from Dundrum to Firhouse/Tallaght, out to Blessington, Valleymount, Lacken, Kilbride, Butter Mountain, Brittas, Tallaght, Dundrum. Started off with about 16/18 riders, but the pace was pretty hot (for me anyway), and some dropped off fairly early on. We were doing a few "intervals" for race training, the first one involved lashing up the Embankment fairly hard, regrouped at the top. Then the next was along the back of the Lakes between Valleymount and Lacken with a fairly steep finish, and regrouped again. We were supposed to do a 3rd, which didn't happen as boss man Dave had punctured in Lacken and didn't get back up in time to organise it, which was just as well !
    There was a general "every man for himself" melee down the Embankment back into Tallaght (maybe that was the 3rd interval). We came up behind the slow group near Tallaght, and I followed them right to retrace our outward route from earlier. I don't know where the rest of the step-up group got to - I found myself at the front of the slow group, and then I left them behind and headed back to Dundrum on my own. Bumped into Short Circuit along the Dodder on his way to work.
    Good tough spin, 90kms, average 28.6kph, definitely a new record for me for a relatively hilly spin. Group included El Tonto, Rottenhat, Buffalo, Lukester and probably a few more. We passed Godihatethehills several times as each group punctured in turn and we leap-frogged each other.

    edit: but where was Dirk Voodoo - missing in action !


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  • #2
    montac
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    That was some pace up the Embankment this morning! I got dropped a few times throughout the day, but it was a great day to be out on the bike. Happy to make it home in one piece too!


  • #3
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    LastGasp wrote: »
    edit: but where was Dirk Voodoo - missing in action !

    I was hoping this would go unnoticed, but I guess not. I can no longer face the disappointed looks from rottenhat and El Tonto anymore.

    What happened? Well, I was out but I wasn't really drinking at all and made a conscious effort to leave early. Got home at 1:45, set the alarm and in bed at 2:15. I woke up at 8 am, shoulders stiff, tired and the weather outside looked as bad as Saturday. "HTFU....HTFU.....htfu...ht-ah feck it" and back to bed I went".

    It capped off a bad week of training, I think my motivation is fading fast and the season hasn't even started yet!

    *hangs head in shame.


  • #4
    iregk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭iregk


    So thats who you lot were. Was wondering who the huge group was remounting as I was half dead arriving at the shop in Lacken.


  • #5
    buffalo
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    LastGasp wrote: »
    I don't know where the rest of the step-up group got to - I found myself at the front of the slow group, and then I left them behind and headed back to Dundrum on my own.

    About ten people headed straight on down the N81, to continue on various routes home, rather than heading back via Dundrum. That was probably the majority of the step-up group.


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