140km Terminator cycle april 29th

David Harford

Tried out the route last sun. anyone doing it is in for a treat.

Check out www.kilbridegfc.com for more details

Seve OB

won't be able for 140k, but I think I will give the 80 spin a go.

Does anyone know much about this, I've not seen anything about it till now.

Don't even know where kilbride is!

David Harford

Kilbride is near blanchardstown dublin 15 just inside the meath border. The 80k is a nice spin. The event will be well marshaled with food and water stops along the way. check out www.kilbridegfc.com and you will find all you need to know about the event. tks

Seve OB

took a look on google maps at the map location on their website and it looks like a country boreen with nothing but farmland on it....

is this the right spot?

http://www.kilbridegfc.com/location/

velo.2010

stevieob wrote: »

took a look on google maps at the map location on their website and it looks like a country boreen with nothing but farmland on it....

is this the right spot?

http://www.kilbridegfc.com/location/

http://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=53.453787,-6.395937&spn=0.000006,0.00721&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.45393,-6.395942&panoid=2NOjT-FtTkIfCdcz1nJN7w&cbp=12,269.21,,0,4.74

This seems to be it. I signed up for this a good while back and nearly forgot about it. If I spin out and back that will be 180km+ for the day. Ouchy! I think I might just do the 80km as I don't really have the legs for the longer event. Looks good though!

David Harford

Yea thats the right place...

Seve OB

nice one

I wonder will there be many doing it

for anyone interested i think i just found the MAP MY RIDE

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/fullscreen/70669624/

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/fullscreen/70296188/

David Harford

Yes a good few have registered online. hope the weather is good

happygoose

Are there food/water stops on the 140km route?

David Harford

Yea food and water stops. also food at the end..

lennymc

looking forward to this. cant remember if I registered online or not tho. LOL. guess ill find out Sunday. Have a couple of people from the club doing the 80k aswell.

alexanderomahon

Weather not looking too bad
http://www.weather-forecast.com/locations/Dublin/forecasts/latest

David Harford

Yea event goes ahead...

t'bear

Just registered....for the 40k The pins are not up to 80k yet.

Eamonnator

On the 140K cycle, at about the 76K mark, The route goes along a lane, just outside Drogheda. Be very careful on this lane, the road surface is horrible and it carries more traffic, than you would expect from such a lane. When two cars meet on this lane, One has to stop and reverse.
In fact, I don't understand, why the organisers are bringing the cycle down this lane. It would be very simple to avoid it. It would take about
3K from the distance and would, in my opinion, make the event safer.

alexanderomahon

At what distances are the stops on the 140k?

Eamonnator

Will the route be marked ?

velo.2010

A grand day out.

Went with the intention of doing the 80km and ended up doing the 140km plus the commute to and fro. Some wind out there!

Smallish group headed out on the 140km. Stayed with them till after half way then found myself out on my own and just pushed on - I think my long distance legs have finally come back! Didn't go back to the clubhouse at the end as I wanted to keep moving for home. Thanks to the lads for the company on the way out to Drogheda even though it was difficult to talk/hear in the wind.

Fair play to the moto-marshalls for a great job and the ladies driving round the course ready to hand out water and bars.

Stats: 181km @27.7kph.

lennymc

i had planned on doing the 140, but wussed out when we passed my house, stopped and had a cuppa, a bit of grub, change of clothes, and did the 40k or whatever back to the start. 114k total. Just didnt have the legs today. (was in wicklow yesterday - all the excuses coming out now. i better HTFU for the pyrenees!!) That wind was a killer. Well done velo. what bike were you on? I was in the yellow jacket on a black boardman with yellow tyres.

velo.2010

lennymc wrote: »

velo. what bike were you on? I was in the yellow jacket on a black boardman with yellow tyres.

Canyon AL. Was that your mate with the tri-bars?

lennymc

no, didnt know him.

Eamonnator

velo.2010 wrote: »

Canyon AL. Was that your mate with the tri-bars?

I was in your group today. I was on a Planet X.
That wind was a hoor. Still I enjoyed it in a perverse kind of way.
The organisers deserved a better turn out.

daviddenis

I along with about 6 more were behind the main group who were doing the 140km as the pace was so quick. We averaged 24km which was al-right with that wind. There was no water stops only one at the 40km stage. The route was badly marked in places with only a sheet of paper that had folded together. When we arrived back to club house there was no hot food or water.

For €25 expected more!!!

Never Again

velo.2010

daviddenis wrote: »

I along with about 6 more were behind the main group who were doing the 140km as the pace was so quick. We averaged 24km which was al-right with that wind. There was no water stops only one at the 40km stage. The route was badly marked in places with only a sheet of paper that had folded together. When we arrived back to club house there was no hot food or water.

For €25 expected more!!!

Never Again

Sorry to hear your experience, David. Quite often with a new event there are inevitably holes in the organisation that need to be ironed out in the future. And its just not the small sportives that suffer in their infancy - read about the Etape Cymru!

With the wind following us initially the pace was high and the 140km split very early on. I can only presume that the moto marshalls may have missed that fact and believed the group I was in were the only ones doing the 140km. They may have thought you guys were just doing the 80km. I could have pressed on a bit earlier than I did but wasn't sure of the route. When I did the marshalls actually went out of their way to race ahead of me and marshall the corners before swinging round and going back to the following group. In the end they left me to it as we approached the last 10-15km.

I can't relate to the afters as I headed on home but would agree it would be a mistake not to have water or hot water for tea at the end. Cold food/sandwiches would have been fine for me.