Deenside Ladies Sportive

DWheelers

Calling all Lady Cyclists! Deenside Wheelers are delighted to announce that they will host a ladies only sportive.

The sportive will start at 10am in Wandesforde National School, Castlecomer on Easter Monday April 9th.

We will have two route options, a 50km and 100km route.

All of the details can be seen on our website: www.deensidewheelers.com/events/ladies-sportive

Any questions don't hesitate to contact us or post your queries here.


Deenside Wheelers.

jimm

Why ladies only? If it was a race I could understand, but a sportive?

I see it's to raise money for a womens refuge, fair enough, but you may well be losing out on vital funds for your worthy cause.

thebouldwhacker

DWheelers wrote: »

Calling all Lady Cyclists! Deenside Wheelers are delighted to announce that they will host a ladies only sportive.

The sportive will start at 10am in Wandesforde National School, Castlecomer on Easter Monday April 9th.

We will have two route options, a 50km and 100km route.

All of the details can be seen on our website: www.deensidewheelers.com/events/ladies-sportive

Any questions don't hesitate to contact us or post your queries here.


Deenside Wheelers.

Great idea! shame that its such short notice though his would have been the perfect thing for my gf to aim at if she had more notice.
Maybe a reminder earlier next year?

Baet of luck!

DWheelers

Hi jimm, ladies only because we want to encourage more women to take up cycling and from talking to them we found they would prefer an event where there are women only on the roads. We also found that there have been similar events in the U.K and they worked brilliantly, surely it's worth giving it a try!

Hi thebouldwhacker, we did have a thread on this earlier in the year but unfortunately it attracted little attention and so we posted this one as a reminder. We have also had the info on our website and Facebook page for quite some time, as well as mentioning it on Twitter. It's on the CI calendar and we've e-mailed as many clubs around the country as possible. Sorry if none of these attracted your attention. However, the 50km route is very achievable and many of our own female members will be on the route on the day, a lot of which have only started in the last few weeks.

Thanks for the interest, maybe you could pass on info to anyone you think may be interested.

Deenside Wheelers

DWheelers

The Deenside Wheelers Ladies Sportive is now only 3 days away and the final update is now on our webpage, www.deensidewheelers.com/events/ladies-sportive
Any last minute questions give us a shout

Deenside Wheelers

Captain Havoc

Can I come in drag? :pac:

To be fair to Deenside, they do host really good events and are the jammiest club in the country when it comes to weather (I've probably just jinxed that though )

DWheelers

If it's enough to convince us I'm sure you'll be allowed to cycle, shaved legs would be a minimum though.

We're in the middle of negotiations for the weather at the moment so fingers crossed.

Chips Lovell

DWheelers wrote: »

shaved legs would be a minimum though.

You might have a sticking point there. Or at least the razor might have.

DWheelers

Well done to all the courageous women who cycled in very tough conditions yesterday raising money for Kilkenny Womens Refuge from oganizing committee and crew and specially the food sponsors EUROSPAR Castlecomer. A huge thanks to everyone who took part in and helped in the running of the ladies sportive, we hope you all enjoyed the day and we're looking forward to next year already. First bunch of pictures now up on our website, www.deensidewheelers.com, to see them all just check out the gallery. Full report coming soon with more pic's...