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St Patricks Day Race - Saturday 17th March

  • 12-03-2012 2:41pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭


    Province: Leinster
    Promoter: Usher R.C.
    Contact Details: Alice Sheratt, 087-2929913
    Time/Sign On Details: Dunboyne soccer club 11.00am
    Categorys: A1,A2,A3,A4
    Distance: T.B.C.

    Any more info on this?

    I know it's early in the week... but heard mention of Dorey's Forge circuit at the weekend - is this usually a handicap or separate races?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭ragazzo


    This used to be a handicap race but was changed to 3 separate races in 2010.

    This was due to the huge numbers signing on. A1/2 race together. A3 have their race and A4 also have their race.

    Course is usually Dorey's Forge/Culmullen and the Finish line is at the nursing home on the Summerhill Road. (about 5k before Dunboyne. You pass it on the way out but the next time you see it should be in the sprint)

    It is usually a good, fast race and the circuit is as safe as you will get.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    Many boardsies heading to this on Saturday?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,581 ✭✭✭uberwolf


    joker77 wrote: »
    Many boardsies heading to this on Saturday?
    Me anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭buffalo


    joker77 wrote: »
    Any more info on this?

    From http://www.irishroadclub.com/

    Sign on will be at Dunboyne Soccer Club (2km from Dunboyne on Summerhill Road) from 09:30 until 10:45.

    Racing starts at 11am departing Dunboyne Soccer Club towards Summerhill and joining the Doreys Forge circuit with each race completing 2 laps of the circuit before racing back towards Dunboyne to finish outside the Nursing Home.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭buffalo


    PS Any boardsies heading out from the northside with space for a passenger and a bike? I could roll out I know, but I'm feeling lazy.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭jimbo28


    Im thinking of it, anyone know how long it is? Theres drinking to be done while watching the rugby/football and that takes energy:)...............energy that i dont want to waste racing a bike!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    jimbo28 wrote: »
    Im thinking of it, anyone know how long it is? Theres drinking to be done while watching the rugby/football and that takes energy:)...............energy that i dont want to waste racing a bike!
    Cheap night out if you go racing for the morning.
    Based on last Saturday, I was home and lunched and even had time to read the paper before bussing into town for a pint before kickoff.
    obviously I'll be going racing before tucking into a westvleteren :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭Plastik


    Anyone know what time the A4 is likely to start - I need to get some flight clearance :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    Plastik wrote: »
    Anyone know what time the A4 is likely to start - I need to get some flight clearance :)

    probably 11:10 or something around that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭Rocketpocket


    any major hills or drags on the circuit that could split it up?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43 moch


    any major hills or drags on the circuit that could split it up?
    Yes there is one hill known as Doreys forge that will probably be just hard enough to split the A4 group anyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭levitronix


    thats where it spilt last year about 10 of us got away


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭jimbo28


    Is this the circuit for the race in Dunboyne tomorrow lads, Would 2 laps all in be about 70-80k?

    http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/32849544/


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    That's the lap. Start and finish are different though for this race, on the Dunboyne - Summerhill Road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭polariz


    Can I get a licence on the day or do I have to have one in advance?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭killalanerr


    polariz wrote: »
    Can I get a licence on the day or do I have to have one in advance?
    Get it on the day just go to the HQ early and they will sort you out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,032 ✭✭✭FrankGrimes


    Thinking of giving this a shot. Does anyone have a link to a route of the actual full A4 course that could be used to upload it to a Garmin as for a race I imagine it'd be very helpful to know exactly how far away the finish is? I'd normally do this myself but amn't sure of the start and finish location for this one. Thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 doedoe


    anyone any idea of the race distance ? thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,142 ✭✭✭buffalo


    62.3km I think. :p

    Well, bit of a boring race in the A4 - no splits at all - so thanks to those who livened it up by crashing out. ;) Hopefully nobody was injured badly - only witnessed one, just after Dorey's Forge the second time over, guy in red fell over in the ditch. On the straight. I reckon it must have been one of those slow but inevitable falls, where you know what's coming, but powerless to stop it. Again, as per early season races, some crazy riding. People taking silly risks on the other side of the road coming into blind corners. Couple of commissionaire cars passed us, we'll see if anyone gets cited.

    Got saturated and frozen on the way home. Coming through Clonsilla, it looked like it had been snowing - about an inch and a half of hailstones on the ground. And then Croke Park traffic. bleagh. Bring on the Des Hanlon!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭jimbo28


    Ya, bit of a balls of a race, one of the most dangerous ive been in for the last while.Terrible riding-all out down the hills, traffic jams up them! Had a few digs off the front but to no avail, nobody seems to want to get away and the few that do are hampered by lads who dont know how to jump across without taking the whole race with them:rolleyes:.Couldnt see ( literally) on the run into the finish-mixture of sun and rain so just rode in.Dont think i have the bottle for them type sprints anymore.Anyways...............1.Porter 2. Milan san remo finish 3.Porter/rugby..............hope that horse didnt get to much of a fright:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭Dutchie


    doedoe wrote: »
    anyone any idea of the race distance ? thanks

    63.91. if you fiinshed in the lead bunch, average speed was 37.8 kph


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,278 ✭✭✭kenmc


    I saw 2 crashes, that lad falling up the hill at Doreys, and then just before rejoining the road after Doreys saw some lad bounce across the road into the ditch on the right. Think he may have taken one with him. Some lethal riding, most of it by one-dayers from what I can see. When I heard the horse kicking I thought someone had actually crashed into it.

    Once the rain came down I decided that there were too many idiots who couldn't handle the conditions, and I wasn't going anywhere near the business end of it. Half expected to actually pick up a place by carrying my bike over a large pileup, but glad to see there were no bodies littering the finish area.

    Tough race, glad I wasn't cycling home from it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    I was out training and stopped to watch the 1st bit of the race on your right turn down the Mullagh.
    I came across a SouthDublin CC guy who had crashed in the A3 bunch further up the road. He was bleeding from his head, arm, finger and leg and wasn't sure his collar bone was ok.
    He told me the other guy who was involved in the crash came down in front on him when his tub rolled.
    I didn't see an ambulance. Was there one? The guy was on the side of the road and and one of my former team mate who was a the scene had to call his wife to pick him up.
    SDCC guy : I hope you're alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,278 ✭✭✭kenmc


    I never actually saw an ambulance near the start, now that you mention it. Guess they were all in at the parade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭Plastik


    6th today in the A4 for me. First ever race :)

    in terms of mental riding, towards the end of the first lap there was a guy in the A4 bunch on the left side of the road. i don't know if we were passing him or if he was in the race because he had a gillet on and I couldn't see a race number. He answered his mobile ..... I couldn't believe it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Caroline_ie


    kenmc wrote: »
    I never actually saw an ambulance near the start, now that you mention it. Guess they were all in at the parade.
    I never saw one after the 4 groups passed me the first time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,306 ✭✭✭dave_o_brien


    I never saw one after the 4 groups passed me the first time.

    I saw one near the club before the start...

    For me, it was an enjoyable first open race. The league is great for setting you up for these I think; some of the riding was awful, and would have gotten you bawled out of it in the league.

    Either way, had little to no expectations before hand, but was feeling good with 2-3km to go, thinking about pressing on and contesting the sprint when a puddle filled pothole decided that my tyre needed a bite. Oh well, at least I survived.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭killalanerr


    Cold and wet A4 think i picked up a chill, i enjoyed the race but i was just outside the placings finished with loads of legs but i could not find a way through.
    Poor show its not good enough that a rider with broken bones is left on the side of the road to make their own arrangements plus their was one major junction with no marshals at it lucky the lead car was able to stop the cars this in turn left a bunch of up to 100 riders with no lead car hairy stuff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    I couldn't believe the amount of official cars going up the bunch (a4 anyway). I think in all the races I did last year someone went up maybe twice, but there were 4 or 5 today.

    Worst was the fact that when (I presume - I couldn't see) the final car went up, it was followed by two or three normal people. One driver in an a4 was a bit up the bunch (solid white line) when a car came against and he pulled in on the bunch :rolleyes:

    Anyway, besides all that, I have two observations:
    1) if people are using the other side of the road to overtake, fine, if they are using it to overtake with a solid line, then okay, but make the overtake. Car is called, first thing that is done is jam on the brakes, second thing swerve left, once passed retake your position on the wrong side of the road :rolleyes:
    2) Orwell, do you do "up and overs" during winter training? I'm just curious. If so, do you outline the benefit of slow down after moving across as opposed to lining it out and dying 30 seconds later then looking back to see why no one else is interested in doing any work.:confused:

    Anyway, the latter is just a jest I have no doubt that I have a lot to improve too so I really shouldn't comment on others' failings, but I enjoyed the race today, bar the weather. I wore myself out bringing the group from Dorey's Forge after a split probably due to the incident, and I hadn't eaten enough/enough energy to keep up that pace in the final run in.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭Pablo Rubio


    Plastik wrote: »
    6th today in the A4 for me. First ever race :)

    in terms of mental riding, towards the end of the first lap there was a guy in the A4 bunch on the left side of the road. i don't know if we were passing him or if he was in the race because he had a gillet on and I couldn't see a race number. He answered his mobile ..... I couldn't believe it.


    Seen that myself.....He wasn't in the race we were just passing him by,and his son won the A1 Race.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭fago


    6 lads taken down last weekend in loughrea when a tub rolled off, and again today. Are they not being glued properly - a race seems the wrong place to find out there's problems with them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 623 ✭✭✭J Madone


    Plastik wrote: »
    6th today in the A4 for me. First ever race :)

    Well done my man, knew you would be fine!
    A great start


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    fago wrote: »
    6 lads taken down last weekend in loughrea when a tub rolled off, and again today. Are they not being glued properly - a race seems the wrong place to find out there's problems with them.

    There's a rumour going round that people are using Tufo sealant to "glue" on their tubs. :pac:


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