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First Nation Home Challenge March 2012

  • 06-12-2011 9:44pm
    #1
    emtroche
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    News from Team Joe Barr facebook page:

    Joe has been invited to be part of Team Ireland for the upcoming Sport Relief "First Nation Home Challenge" in March 2012. Joe will team up with the first lady of Irish Athletics, Sonia O`Sullivan, Rugby union star Patrick Stephen John and team Ireland captain, TV presenter Crag Doyle.

    Teams from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales will compete against each other over 1000 miles, in ...cycling, sailing, rowing and running. Each team will start in their capital city and race clockwise around the course. The first nation home wins.

    Repesenting England on the bike will be the legendary Chris Boardman and representing Scotland will be Graeme Obree.

    More details here www.firstnationhome.com


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  • #2
    chakattack
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    Tough competition for Joe barr, I wonder if the two old foes are still in shape?


  • #3
    Cookie_Monster
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    emtroche wrote: »
    Each team will start in their capital city and race clockwise around the course.

    how do they ensure it's fair, different weather conditions, different terrain, Edinburgh is very hill, London isn't, etc?


  • #4
    Lumen
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    how do they ensure it's fair, different weather conditions, different terrain, Edinburgh is very hill, London isn't, etc?

    England have got yer wan from Hollyoaks and Scotland have got a 41 year old ex-weather "girl".

    This isn't the Olympics :pac:


  • #5
    Cookie_Monster
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    Lumen wrote: »
    England have got yer wan from Hollyoaks and Scotland have got a 41 year old ex-weather "girl".

    This isn't the Olympics :pac:

    ah right, I should have looked at the link really, shouldn't I...


  • #6
    emtroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭emtroche


    Currently in Edinburgh with Team Ireland. Two tough cycling stages behind us. All team racers cycling in relay with Joe Barr riding the full distance so far.

    124 miles to Edinburgh today at an average of 20.5 miles an hour!

    All the team are giving it welly. More so than i expected and all are keen to make a race of it.

    All of us are taking this very seriously and are putting in huge efforts. However its a shame the organisation is so brutal. No publicity and no way of keeping an eye on rule infractions.

    Today this resulted in the Welsh team taking huge short cuts and beating our time by an hour which i can assure you is impossible.

    So the english team (consisting of Chris Boardman) will be on the road tomorrow and the scottish team (consisting of Graeme Obree) will be on the road on thursday.

    If you're interested in having a gander or maybe even keeping an eye out for route shortcuts you might go along to the route for a look.

    Heres a link to the route http://ridewithgps.com/trips/506636

    They will be starting at 7am from trinity college.

    As i said we're all putting in a massive effort here and everybody involved in the team is being super professional. Shame some of these other teams involved are making a sham of the event.


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