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Swords Club League 2/6 Clonalvey
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02-06-2010 10:16am#1
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Holy undulations batman that's a effin' savage course. Some real nice tight right-handers, a real nice one at the bottom of the hill after the church after Clonalvey, where I lost the run of myself and found myself a bit too far over the road on the last lap going round the right hander, nearly said "hello" to a car - Note to self: cars and bikes not a good mix for bone preservation.
Started in group 2, even the first time up the draggy bits on the main Naul road the group was pushing a bit, but most in the group managed to keep the heads a bit sensible and not blow it to smithereens within the first 2 miles!
Then off the main road, onto the cyclo-cross bit, nice bit of braking at the sharp left before the kicker up the hill, and on up and up to the school, tough section that, think it tailed off some folks, but at least you're going up so you don't notice the tight bends as much. Over the top, nice sharp lefthander and down the descent with a real nice blind right hander at the very end of it, when you're flying. This was actually a part of the course where the group2 got strung out a good bit, splintered into 2's and 3's and not until we were nearly back at the Garristown road did the group really get back into a rhythm again.
The whole first lap was savage, I thought I was going to pack the whole way around it, just not warmed up properly I think [although a bit hard to "warm up" for that circuit
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On the 2nd lap, on main road group got working a bit again, some lads very strong. Kept it all together on main road, and on up to the school again, felt a bit better this lap. Again flying down the descent group strung out again and took another while to regroup, started working again on the Garristown rd.
3rd lap, on the Naul rd, we start catching bits of the group ahead, and one lad screams off on his own! I think he thought we were only going up the hill 3 times [as opposed to 4] and off he went. He caught one lad out of the group ahead, but then we just kept working a bit and caught him anyway. So we're back onto the cyclo cross bit again, and then up the hill, and he takes off again bursting for the line at the school, at which point he promptly pulls up and stops!
Rest of the group goes by him, to complete the race. Down the descent, bit hairy coming round the right hander with an oncoming car, but we got thru fine and no harm done. Onto the Garristown rd again, and the other groups catch up with us.
So speed goes up a bit, grab onto the bunch, and am able to hold them along the whole of the drags along the main Naul rd, down the turn off at the cyclo cross bit - get to the left hander at the bottom and: uh-oh, seeing stars, crystals cannot take it captain, drop off a bit at the back. Tried to get back on, but elastic broken and they're flying, so pushed it as much as I could to get to the line.
Happy enough with effort, and how I got on when with my group; also glad to get that course done so it is "imprinted" into the PAIN/pleasure sensory parts of my brain :eek:0 -
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We definitely pushed far too hard on the first lap - as mentioned above I was recording something approaching 350w normalised power for the first half lap when in other races this season it has been nearer 300w. Average speed for the first lap was 34.4 kph, and we managed to drop some decent riders.
Started in group 2, even the first time up the draggy bits on the main Naul road the group was pushing a bit, but most in the group managed to keep the heads a bit sensible and not blow it to smithereens within the first 2 miles!
Then off the main road, onto the cyclo-cross bit, nice bit of braking at the sharp left before the kicker up the hill, and on up and up to the school, tough section that, think it tailed off some folks, but at least you're going up so you don't notice the tight bends as much. Over the top, nice sharp lefthander and down the descent with a real nice blind right hander at the very end of it, when you're flying. This was actually a part of the course where the group2 got strung out a good bit, splintered into 2's and 3's and not until we were nearly back at the Garristown road did the group really get back into a rhythm again.
The whole first lap was savage, I thought I was going to pack the whole way around it, just not warmed up properly I think [although a bit hard to "warm up" for that circuit)
I am not sure who was pushing it (it wasn't me this time, but I do hold up my hands to doing this in a couple of earlier races, purely as a result of naivety). It wasn't any of the "regular" triers either - I think we were all feeling it a bit on the first lap. Bottom line was it was counterproductive, resulting in some of us wasting energy to get back on, particularly on the second and third laps, meaning we were unable to contribute as much later This resulted in an overall drop in speed leaving us struggling when we were caught.
I know one or two pushed it up the hills - I even did it myself a couple of times when I had the momentum going - I guess we should perhaps have made more of an effort to re-group, rather than pushing on at the front. Hopefully we'll learn our lessons for next time - I know mc2000 and one or two others in the group were calling for this at the time, but it did not seem to register with some.0 -
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He was hanging onto my wheel for getting on for half a lap as I was trying to reattach myself to group 2. When it became clear I wasn't going to make it he dropped off to join in with the larger bunch! Never once gave any indication of doing an ounce of work - just wheelsucked all the way (obviously until the final sprint!)He was disqualified on that basis, if protests will be re-disqualified for "irregular sprinting "
Results are up on the website now0 -
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