Monaghan County Cycling Championship

EMYVALE CC Monaghan

Emyvale cycling club are hosting a County Monaghan Championship road race on Friday 20th July at 7pm. The race is for senior cyclists(male & Female) and a winners medal will be presented. To be eligible you must be either, living, working, resident or born in County Monaghan. The race distance will be 50 km and will start at Tommy Martin fuels at Ballybay Rd, Monaghan town. It is hoped to make this an annual event.

EMYVALE CC Monaghan

Forgot to mention, riders will be handicaped acording to their licence.Shoer faclities also available

EMYVALE CC Monaghan

Sign on is at 6pm,at Tommy Martin Fuels Ballybay Rd Monaghan Town, entry fee 10 euros, A competition licence is also required, a 1 day licence can be purchased for €10.
Shower (not Shoer) facilities are available at "Fitness Habit" Gym.

Ice Cube

Hi ,

What's the route for this race ? Is there a map available ?

emylad

http://goo.gl/maps/JgSv

Undulating course. starting at tommy martin fuels heading for Ballybay turning left for tullycorbet, Ardaghy and back onto Ballybay road.

EMYVALE CC Monaghan

yes thats correct, it will start & finish at the Seat Garage on the Ballybay Rd, travel to Ballybay, turn left before the town and travel to Tullycorbet , then Ardaghy and back to Monaghan. Twice around this route, it almost 50km

G rock

forgive the stupid question, but when you say handicapped according to license i presume anyone with a leisure license (but purchasing a competition license on the day) will be grouped together?

Consey

Would this be a silly thing to enter for someone in their twilight years who hasn't raced before? Know that route pretty well even though I left the county many moons ago. Route really tempting!

I should clarify, should have said veteran years, do plenty of club spins, 100km etc have done WW200 etc this year but have no racing experience. Am I likely to watch all the better riders zip past me and complete the last 30k on my own? Cause if so I could come down anytime and just go round myself, and not be getting in everyone's way on Friday!

EMYVALE CC Monaghan

No you should enter, this is the first year and the interest so far has been from all types of riders,

EMYVALE CC Monaghan

Race held Friday 21.7.12, There was 32 entrants.
The winner was Patrick J Mc Kenna,Tedavnet 2nd=Ciaran Cosgrove, 3rd= Barry Hughes Emyvale. Ist Lady was Eve Mc Crystal. 1st Vet was Stephen Cassidy Emyvale. Geprge Mc Carron from Cyclo sports Emyvale sponsered the prizes.