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Chain Gang CC Sportives 2010
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High Nellie wrote: »Is there a food stop or will we have to load up?
We'll have a foodstop and (a) waterstop(s) on all the routes to allow riders to fuel up - no need to load yourself up like an overworked domestique! There'll be a food stop in Dingle for Conor Pass Challenge and Blasket Blast participants and on in Camp Village Community Centre for those taking the Camp Cruise family cycle. Waterstops will be in Dingle (for BB riders coming back from Slea head) and Keel (outside Castlemaine, and for both BB and CPC riders).
We'd always recommend that riders bring a bidon or two on the bike and bring the energy products they'd normally use due the demands of these routes/distances. It's always better to have them and not need them than the opposite.
In any case our preferred LBS, O'Halloran Cycles, and High5 are to provide us with some goodies to distribute at sign on to help with these things
And there will be food and refreshments in Tralee when everyone gets back also!0 -
Just in case anyone has any difficulty finding the start point at CBS, The Green just open this LINK and put in your start point and it will give you directions right to the front gate 0
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CheGuedara wrote: »Just in case anyone has any difficulty finding the start point at CBS, The Green just open this LINK and put in your start point and it will give you directions right to the front gate
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CheGuedara wrote: »Hi all, abc def gh
Just dropping a post on behalf of my club to make people aware of the opening of registration for our sportives to be held in September.
The Chain Gang CC, Tralee is happy to announce the 2010 edition of the Conor Pass Challenge, Kerrys premier challenge/sportive cycle.
In addition to this classic 110km course the Club will also be hosting a 30km family friendly cycle – the Camp Cruise and a 150km challenge cycle running the complete Dingle Peninsula called the Blasket Blast.
To ease entrants registration and to allow for better planning, online entry for the cycles has been set up for this year’s events via the following link - https://regonline.activeeurope.com/chain_gang_sportives - with entry pricing as follows:- Camp Cruise 30km (10-18 years) - €5
- Camp Cruise 30km (18+) - €10
- Conor Pass Challenge (16+) - €10 with Cycling Ireland Licence, €20 without
- Blasket Blast (16+) - €10 with Cycling Ireland Licence, €20 without
Registration will also be available on the morning of the event but with the addition of a €5 late registration fee.
We are also happy to announce that our event accommodation partners, the Carlton Hotel Tralee, has kindly offered an event accommodation rate for participants travelling to Tralee for our 2010 sportive challenges. Participants wishing to avail of the discount will be able to book accommodation at the Carlton Hotel Tralee, just 2 minutes from the event start point, (CBS secondary school, Tralee) for the dates surrounding the event for just €45 B&B per person sharing/night (normally €80) or €70 single supplement B&B/night on mentioning the event at time of booking by phone - (066) 7199100 - and by presenting their event registration email on check in.
Route details and postal entry forms have been attached here and while every effort has been made to include as much information as possible, if you have any queries about your route don’t hesitate to drop a line at info@thechaingang.cc and we'll do our utmost to see you right.
We hope to put on a great set of cycles this year, with all the stops being pulled out to put on what we endeavour to make a brilliant day on the bike.
Come to Tralee and take on what we feel are the best challenge cycles, in some of the most spectacular countryside both Kerry and Ireland has to offer.
Kind regards,
Darragh Crowley
Club Secretary
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good to knowCheGuedara wrote: »We'll have a foodstop and (a) waterstop(s) on all the routes to allow riders to fuel up - no need to load yourself up like an overworked domestique! There'll be a food stop in Dingle for Conor Pass Challenge and Blasket Blast participants and on in Camp Village Community Centre for those taking the Camp Cruise family cycle. Waterstops will be in Dingle (for BB riders coming back from Slea head) and Keel (outside Castlemaine, and for both BB and CPC riders).
We'd always recommend that riders bring a bidon or two on the bike and bring the energy products they'd normally use due the demands of these routes/distances. It's always better to have them and not need them than the opposite.
In any case our preferred LBS, O'Halloran Cycles, and High5 are to provide us with some goodies to distribute at sign on to help with these things
And there will be food and refreshments in Tralee when everyone gets back also!
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Heh, relax ya grumpy git !
Whats it like being a Kerryman in Cork today ?
crashoveroid wrote: »Murph we are talking about the way back not the pass.0 -
Heh, relax ya grumpy git !
Whats it like being a Kerryman in Cork today ?
Ahh Murph did something happen. I only remember the lack of covrage of Roche and his great tour.
As for the climb i will never be known to be a climber in fact i prefer short sharp climbs ones.
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Hi all, just back in front of a computer now with time to touch base.
The Club would like to say thanks and a massive well done to everyone who came down to Tralee to take part in Saturdays cycles.
Riders faced some testing routes made even more so by a really unexpected headwind out the Dingle peninsula and we were completely blown away by the level of support for the event in the numbers that came and the distances some travelled to do so. Really amazing, so thank you once again - it's one thing to put the planning and organising together to make an event but it's nothing without participants to enjoy it and it was great having you with us.
We also have to express our gratitude to those that gave their time to help with the marshalling effort on foot, on motorcycle and in car, the manning of the food and water stations, provided medical and motor support - without their efforts the event wouldn't have been half the success that feedback so far suggests and we hugely appreciate everything they did for the club, riders and event.
I spent the day providing mechanical support whilst acting as Broom 3 (serving the Conor Pass Challenge route). It was my first time seeing things from the support point of view and it was a definitely a different day to the norm but a really rewarding one when you hear reviews like those on this thread and the kind words recieved from riders after the route and since then.
My role for the day involved getting those that punctured up and going as rapidly as possible for the most part (with one unlucky rider needing assistance just before the depart!) but there was some unexpected bits that saw me removing cranks by the roadside to extricate a chain lodged (read as welded) around the inside of the bottom bracket and refitting it, straightening out of true wheels and attempting to fix lacerated tyres. In between going up the road up to assist those in need and back to sweep I got to snap a few pics of riders - sorry to the speed demons at the front but they're all from the mid/tail end of the group but maybe there'll be someone there people know - I'll upload them as soon as I can.
Once again thanks to everyone who came over to Tralee to take part, to everyone who contributed their time to seeing the event run and to everyone who's posted such kind words.
We're always interested in trying to improve and build on things for next year so any suggestions, observations or criticisms* anyone has feel free to post them here or drop an email to sportives 'at' the chaingang.cc and we'll see if we cant take things on board to make the 2011 Chain Gang Sportives even better.
Both the Club and I personnally are very proud that you enjoyed your day in the saddle with us and I look forward to seeing you in Tralee next September 17th!
*We're still trying to figure what went wrong with the showers - they were supposed to be nice and scorchio, if I had an inkling they'd have been otherwise we'd have figured something out to see things right0
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