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Bog Week 2 Day

  • 01-05-2012 9:37am
    #1
    ryan_sherlock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭


    Event was run last weekend so not much to do about it now other than put it on your calendar for next year. Seriously, especially if you are an A3 (they get good handicaps - we barely caught them both days) racer. The area was stunning, roads good (okay, some very bumpy roads but nothing dangerous), not much traffic and great organization.

    Hopefully with more promotion they will get a bigger field, but everyone there had a tough race (As a side note, my power files indicate that the final day was harder, but shorter, than when I finished second in the Des Hanlon).

    I wrote about my race here: http://ryansherlock.blogspot.com/2012/05/2012-connemara-bogweek-2-day.html

    And here are a few photos I took of the course: http://ryansherlock.blogspot.com/2012/04/where-i-get-to-race-connemara.html


Comments

  • #2
    jimbo28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭jimbo28


    Well done on the win.It truly is a spectacular part of the county with stunning scenery.(Ahem........Western lakes are holding the polkadot challenge leisure cycle around these parts in two weeks time if anyone is interested).I go out that part of galway a few times during the summer when im at home.Its kinda lord of the rings...esque.


  • #3
    8kvscdpglqnyr4
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    Well done Ryan - very dominant performance from start to finish.

    It was a great race and very well organised - well done to Western Lakes. It was a challenging circuit on both days with the wind really taking it's toll.


  • #4
    Colonialboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭Colonialboy


    yes amazing scenery, I spent two years in the mid 90s cycling there when studying in the furniture college, happy days. The roads are surprisingly good and some great loops, locals really friendly, even in the winter when the weathers bad something about the place made the spins tolerable.

    You know your just retracing the steps of one of Irelands great cyclists. Oliver St. John Gogarty - surgeon, poet,writer, friend of Joyce, persona in Ulysses, only schoolboy to win an FAI cupwinners medal, and holder of the Irish 20Mile time trial record, might have been the first man under 1 hour in Ireland. Regularly cycled against professionals around Trinity grass circuit and lived near Tully Cross where Bog Week race went.
    what am I saying you have the trophy its his name on it.


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