Shay Elliot Memorial Race - May 12th 2013

velogirl

Just a preliminary reminder that The Bray Wheelers Cycling Club's event -

The Shay Elliot Memorial Race - will be held this year on the 12th of May.

This is a 140km A1 and A2 race through the beautiful Wicklow Mountains and over the climb of Glenmalure with a decent prize fund.

There will be some minor changes to the route from last year - a map will be published shortly

Sign on is in The Bray Wheelers Club House, Schools Rd, Bray, Co Wicklow (map on Bray Wheelers website) between 9am and 10.30am with the race starting at 11am.

More Details to follow closer to the event -

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buffalo

This is a handicap event, right?

velogirl

Not handicapped - a rolling mass start but has a good prize list for unplaced A2's

velogirl

velogirl

velogirl wrote: »

2 weeks from Sunday...............

velogirl

http://www.braywheelers.com/shay-elliott-2013/

Follow the link above for details of the changes to the Shay Elliot Course and for an updated course map

Plastik

Not much talk of the Elliott on here, not surprising given the field is restricted to A2 upwards.

Most prestigious 1-day race in the calendar. Good tough 140km route and what looks like challenging weather tomorrow. Any on here planning on signing on in the morning?

buffalo

I'd watch this instead of the Giro if it were televised. Was hoping to pick up the last of the points this month to get to A2 and qualify, but a certain windscreen ruined that plan. My money's on Mr Grieves!

Plastik

Philip Lavery monstered the route last year. Led from practically start to finish. It'll be interesting to see if he's home to defend his title. Good test too for a lot of guys a week before the Rás.

buffalo

Plastik wrote: »

Philip Lavery monstered the route last year. Led from practically start to finish. It'll be interesting to see if he's home to defend his title. Good test too for a lot of guys a week before the Rás.

SB says he's "expected": http://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/hotly-contest-shay-elliott-memorial-in-prospect-as-top-men-fine-tune-ras-form/

colm_gti

Plastik wrote: »

Not much talk of the Elliott on here, not surprising given the field is restricted to A2 upwards.

And most of them are too busy out on their bikes training to post on boards

Maybe that's where we're going wrong...

Plastik

Probably :pac: Hadn't seen that SB article, it's good. I'll try and post a few updates from whenever they roll through the spots I'm marshalling.

Plastik

Shaw took sprint prime after 13km @ Newtown

buffalo

Twitter updates at https://twitter.com/rachel_glendon from one of the support cars.

Plastik

Shaw took Elliott KOM. At finish now, 500m uphill headwind drag if there's a few together. Tough stuff

buffalo

Winners:

1 Conor Murphy (Eurocycles-Eurobaby)
2 Thomas Martin (Eurocycles-Eurobaby)
3 Damien Shaw (Aquablue)

(source: Twitter, confirmed by SB)

Plastik

Top 8 as Tweeted by Bray Wheelers - Conor Murphy, Thomas Martin, Eoin Morton, Damien Shaw, Martin Mizgayski, Art McManus, Sean Lacey, Andrew Meehan. Shaw 4th as opposed to the 3rd SB are reporting.

I didn't see the finish, was doing stuff about 300m before the line, but Shaw looked like he was going to kick on from there. Heard at the scene that he was pipped for 3rd though.

Photo of 1-2
https://twitter.com/wheelers_bray/status/333578257939169281/photo/1

buffalo

Morton! What a rider!

1750W

colm_gti wrote: »

And most of them are too busy out on their bikes training to post on boards

Maybe that's where we're going wrong...

Yip that'd be it

Muller_1

brief report and images here
http://www.braywheelers.com/shay-elliott-2013-results/

bazermc

What was the winners time? Curious to see how the fast these guys completed the course.

Plastik

They rolled out from Bray Wheelers clubhouse at 11 to a neutralised start a few km away on the N11. Winning two man break finished the 140km at about 2 35pm

bazermc

Plastik wrote: »

They rolled out from Bray Wheelers clubhouse at 11 to a neutralised start a few km away on the N11. Winning two man break finished the 140km at about 2 35pm

Cool thanks, that some time for this 140k - 3 hours 35!!!!!

trin duc

bazermc wrote: »

Cool thanks, that some time for this 140k - 3 hours 35!!!!!

Winner completed it in 3.25, maybe even a bit quicker

velogirl

Average speed over 40kph!

bazermc

velogirl wrote: »

Average speed over 40kph!

Faster than my wife drives!

Morrisseeee

Martin Mizgajski's strava file, savage stuff !!
Alot of guys did well on the ShayElliot climb yesterday, 3km @ 7.8%, averaging almost 20km/h, a nice calorie burner

Plastik

3.24.07 was the time for the winning pair according to IrishCycylingNews.

buffalo

https://twitter.com/Corndog1976/status/333633334523621376

UCD's Con Collis smashes a rear windscreen... I keep having flashbacks! :eek:

Eoin_Morton

I've done up a quick blog of the race, what a day!

http://eoinmorton.weebly.com/