Leinster Road Race Championships 2013

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Details of Leinster R/R Champs 2013

Sun Aug 25th
Venue Dunlavin
Time 11.00am
Promoted by Cycling Leinster
There will be 3 races on the day on the 24km circuit.[Kevin Mc Inerney Mem circuit
The A4 only race will be 3 x laps [72km] and is a non championship race as A4 is designated by Cycling Ireland as a non championship category

The A3/Jun/Woms race will also be 3 x laps [72km]with Leinster Gold,Silver,and Bronze medals to the three different categories plus team medals if the requirements are met for them.
The A1/A2/Vets race will be 4 x laps 96km] and again there will be Gold,Silver,and Bronze in each category plus team medals.
Before anybody has a go at me re the vets,the situation is as followss
There are lots of vets who are either A1 or A2 and therefore could not ride in the A3 race.So a vet who is A3 and wants to be eligible for a vets medal will have to ride the A1/A2/Vets championship.Its the only realistic way we can run it as everybody can be included this way.
For the past few yrs the Eddie Tobin race in Bunclody has doubled as the Leinster champs.This yr it will be a stand alone event and in essence is an extra race on the calender.Because it is being run by the committee and not a club,offers of help re stewarding,driving etc would be most welcome.More info to follow nearer to the time.
Also it has been agreed to run a 3 stage league at the end of the season to replace the old midweek Leinster 3 day.These races will be on 3 Saturdays on Aug 31st,Sept 14th,and 21st.It should extend the racing season somewhat.First one of these has been provisionally fixed for Donadea,Co Kildare.

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Those eligible to ride must meet one of the following

1 be a member of a Leinster registered club
2 Reside in the province
3 Unattached but have Leinster noted on your licence
4 Be a member of an overseas team but your last Irish address was in Leinster

There would be riders who would be eligible to compete in a few different provincial champs e g reside in one province and ride with a club in another.
The important factor here is that you may only ride one provincial champs in any one season so if you have already competed in another provine you cant ride this one.

GlennaMaddy

let me be the first to ask awkward vets questions wav1 ;-)

will the vets medals be awarded to the first 3 unplaced vets?

I presume your CI licence must say 'VET' to be considered for the vet's race, or are we talking about the UCI Masters category here (+50 yrs I think).

smurphy29

Ah great, had it in my head this cut off at A3 for some reason. Delighted to see the season extend into September also. Joy unconfined! Will the A4s have their own races in the Leinster league, or are they handicap chases?

This looks like the course. And what a course!

http://www.strava.com/activities/1408925

Beasty

GlennaMaddy wrote: »

let me be the first to ask awkward vets questions wav1 ;-)

will the vets medals be awarded to the first 3 unplaced vets?

I presume your CI licence must say 'VET' to be considered for the vet's race, or are we talking about the UCI Masters category here (+50 yrs I think).

I'm sure wav1 will have definitive answers, but when I did the Leinster TT champs last year I had to choose which catehgory I was taking part in

As I understand it the vets category in Ireland is for riders who will be aged 40 or over at the end of this calendar year - UCI Masters categories kick in at 35 I believe

RobFowl

Beasty wrote: »

I'm sure wav1 will have definitive answers, but when I did the Leinster TT champs last year I had to choose which catehgory I was taking part in

As I understand it the vets category in Ireland is for riders who will be aged 40 or over at the end of this calendar year - UCI Masters categories kick in at 35 I believe

UCI Masters kick in at 30 would you believe!

wav1

GlennaMaddy wrote: »

let me be the first to ask awkward vets questions wav1 ;-)

will the vets medals be awarded to the first 3 unplaced vets?

I presume your CI licence must say 'VET' to be considered for the vet's race, or are we talking about the UCI Masters category here (+50 yrs I think).

Cycling Ireland lic will have to have the vet category
The Gold,Silver,and Bronze will be awarded to the first three vets OVER THE LINE in the A1A2/Vets race.Any A3 vet who wants to be eligible for a medal
has to ride the A1/A2 race as we cant bring the vets who are A1 A2 back down so the A3s will have to move up.A3 vets can opt to ride the A3/Jun/Womans race and be eligible for an A3 medal.Hope all this makes sense.

Beasty

RobFowl wrote: »

UCI Masters kick in at 30 would you believe!

I wondered about that - Track Masters events start at 35 so I went with that ...

brainstorm

The A4 only race will be 3 x laps [72km] and is a non championship race as A4 is designated by Cycling Ireland as a non championship category

Can non Leinster based A4's (club or otherwise) take part in the A4 race, since its non championship or do the same rules apply as mentioned in post #2

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brainstorm wrote: »

Can non Leinster based A4's (club or otherwise) take part in the A4 race, since its non championship or do the same rules apply as mentioned in post #2

As its non championship A4 riders with a full competition licence from any region can ride this race.

dario28

wav1 wrote: »

As its non championship A4 riders with a full competition licence from any region can ride this race.

What time is the A4 race at ?

wav1

dario28 wrote: »

What time is the A4 race at ?

All 3 x races will be on the circuit at the same time.Please everybody note that the time of these events have CHANGED TO A 1.00PM START.This is to facilitate church goers in the Dunlavin area.Full details mid next week.

lukemv

What time is the Race in Donadea on the 31st at? Please be anything after 3pm!! What categories etc. Reply before then greatful, thanks, luke !

Casati

wav1 wrote: »

Cycling Ireland lic will have to have the vet category
The Gold,Silver,and Bronze will be awarded to the first three vets OVER THE LINE in the A1A2/Vets race.Any A3 vet who wants to be eligible for a medal
has to ride the A1/A2 race as we cant bring the vets who are A1 A2 back down so the A3s will have to move up.A3 vets can opt to ride the A3/Jun/Womans race and be eligible for an A3 medal.Hope all this makes sense.

Although its an odd rule, CI do not permit A3's to ride in a separate A1/A2 races

wav1

Unfortunately a bit of bad news on this one folks.These Championships are now deferred to Sun Sept 22nd at the same venue.Following a meeting last night and due to a number of reasons which i will try to explain in a minute,this decision was taken.
Firstly for one reason or other there are a lot of the people needed to run the event missing on other duties that weekend.It takes about 25/30 staff including drivers and marshalls to do it right and this couldn't be guaranteed.
Theres also a clash with the Nat Youth Champs which would take away a lot of the technical staff such as comms and photo finish.I can only apologise for this deferral and would like to say that they will DEFINITELY go ahead on the new date,when we will have a full compliment of crew,to put on a proper Championship event.To be honest i feel bad about this,and can only apologise again.I contacted some people this morning about the possibility of maybe rescheduling one of the Leinster based events,that were cancelled earlier in the season,but i'll have to wait and see on that one.

fondriest

Well it makes the winter break a week shorter :-)

lennymc

CX season starts on the 22nd.

wav1

lennymc wrote: »

CX season starts on the 22nd.

Where?

lennymc

wav1 wrote: »

Where?

grange castle, Clondalkin.

wav1

lennymc wrote: »

grange castle, Clondalkin.

Well riders themselves will have to make the choice.A week longer on the road or week earlier in the muck.Theres no other slot available between the origanal date and new date,with Nat Track champs,St Tiernans race etc.

lukemv

If the national are pushed back to the 22nd , then can they take on new entries, because i wanted to enter the junior TT & road race but was on holidays for the August date, but am available for the Septamber 22nd date. Because of the change, is the entries deadline pushed back accordingly im saying. thanks

wav1

lukemv wrote: »

If the national are pushed back to the 22nd , then can they take on new entries, because i wanted to enter the junior TT & road race but was on holidays for the August date, but am available for the Septamber 22nd date. Because of the change, is the entries deadline pushed back accordingly im saying. thanks

Think you misread the post lukemv?This is nothing to do with Nationals.This is LEINSTER ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIPS.National Junior road and TT Champs go ahead this weekend in Omagh as scheduled.

lukemv

sorry excuse me, typo on my part! (national & leinster)

simongerrard

Where is the online entry for the leinster rr championships

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simongerrard wrote: »

Where is the online entry for the leinster rr championships

no pre entry required.On the day entries only.Race start time will be 1pm in Dunlavin on Sept 22nd.Sign on will open in the local hall at 11am.

Knockna Ray

So the Championship event scheduled for Dunlavin this coming Sunday 25th Aug will take place same venue Sunday Sept 22nd. Any update on the very promising 3 league events set to start Sept 31st at Donadea?

smithslist

Knockna Ray wrote: »

Any update on the very promising 3 league events set to start Sept 31st at Donadea?

Surely that's Aug 31st as theres only 30 days in September....is it every Saturday startig from Aug 31st or 3 events over that week-end?

Knockna Ray

Yeah, thks Smithslist, meant Aug 31st. Can anyone lay it all out nice and simple for us here down the back of the classroom......

Raymzor

howya wav1? i was at a wedding a few weeks ago in listowel-your best wishes note was read out by the best man! for the 3 league races is there a4 category? is it open the same way as the main event on 22nd? im now living in leinster but a member of a munster club with an a4 racing licence. thanks in advance

wav1

Raymzor wrote: »

howya wav1? i was at a wedding a few weeks ago in listowel-your best wishes note was read out by the best man! for the 3 league races is there a4 category? is it open the same way as the main event on 22nd? im now living in leinster but a member of a munster club with an a4 racing licence. thanks in advance

Looks like 31st is not going to happen.Find out now theres a clash with the final round of the ICL which takes place the same morning.Always a problem.I hope very much that the other 2 will and yes it will be open to all.Hope you enjoyed that wedding.Really nice people and gret cycling folk.

duffyshuffle

wav1 wrote: »

Looks like 31st is not going to happen.Find out now theres a clash with the final round of the ICL which takes place the same morning.Always a problem.I hope very much that the other 2 will and yes it will be open to all.Hope you enjoyed that wedding.Really nice people and gret cycling folk.

Hi wav1, any update on dates/distances for the other races besides the champs?

Knockna Ray

Any updates on this series of racing for Sept?

Harrybelafonte

Just realised that the Leinster Track Champs are on the day before. Full weekend for some.

lapierreracer

@WAV1

Hi, is there any more details on the donadea race this saturday 14th september, start time, sign on time and location and a route map, please can you get back to me soon
thanks

joxerjohn

Hi Wav1. Can you confirm please if this event will be going ahead on Sept 22nd. at 1 pm as per previous posts. The reason I ask is that there is currently no entry in the CI calendar and so I wondered if the event might now be cancelled altogehter ?

Thanks

J

wav1

joxerjohn wrote: »

Hi Wav1. Can you confirm please if this event will be going ahead on Sept 22nd. at 1 pm as per previous posts. The reason I ask is that there is currently no entry in the CI calendar and so I wondered if the event might now be cancelled altogehter ?

Thanks

J

Leinster R/R Champs go ahead in Dunlavin on Sun Sept 22nd at 1pm.There will now be a total of 4 races on the day as follows.
1 A1/A2/Vets Gold,Silver,and Bronze in each category
2 A3/Jun Gold,Silver,and Bronze each category
3 Womans Gold,Silver,and Bronze [also incorporates the Womans Jun Nat R/R Champs.
4 A4 race [this is a non championship race as per C I rules]so is open to riders from all provinces.
Meeting tonight to nail down the details.We would be delighted if club members from Leinster who are not racing would volunteer to help.Lucan club have volunteered to cover the drivers for the Womans race.More of the same would be very welcome.You can PM me in regard to same.
A1/A2/Vets champs are 4 x laps 96k
A3/Jun champs and womans champs is 3 x laps 72k
A4 race is 72k

wav1

lapierreracer wrote: »

@WAV1

Hi, is there any more details on the donadea race this saturday 14th september, start time, sign on time and location and a route map, please can you get back to me soon
thanks

Orwell have rescheduled their postponed Hammond Mem races for this coming Sat 14th,which is now a TT in Roundwood.

lapierreracer

so the donadea race is canceled

joxerjohn

Thanks WAV1 for clarification. Will send PM.

wav1

Right folks.Meeting tonight and alls good to as per details in post earlier today[or yesterday at this stage].Just one further detail.Decision tonight NO A+ Championship so these riders will be omitted.

greenmat

smurphy29 wrote: »

Ah great, had it in my head this cut off at A3 for some reason. Delighted to see the season extend into September also. Joy unconfined! Will the A4s have their own races in the Leinster league, or are they handicap chases?

This looks like the course. And what a course!

http://www.strava.com/activities/1408925

Is above the circuit that will be used next week?

Cond0r

greenmat wrote: »

Is above the circuit that will be used next week?

Also looking for confirmation that this is the circuit?

Inspector Coptoor

How do you get involved in races like this?
I'm new to cycling and am interested in a competitive outlet. Albeit at a low level.

Cond0r

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

How do you get involved in races like this?
I'm new to cycling and am interested in a competitive outlet. Albeit at a low level.

Kind of off-topic for this thread. I'd advise searching this forum for threads on that topic, as it comes up frequently!

wav1

Yes thats the circuit.The old Kevin Mc Inerney race circuit.

smurphy29

Sticky bottle preview saying A4 is two laps, which would be 48k. First post on this thread says three. wav1 can you clear this one up? Thanks!

wav1

smurphy29 wrote: »

Sticky bottle preview saying A4 is two laps, which would be 48k. First post on this thread says three. wav1 can you clear this one up? Thanks!

3 x laps it is for A4s

greenmat

wav1 wrote: »

3 x laps it is for A4s

Grand, because I think an A4 race has to be over 50km to award points to top 8.

wav1

Great to see riders mad for action and still chasing that elusive upgrade even in late September.

greenmat

wav1 wrote: »

Great to see riders mad for action and still chasing that elusive upgrade even in late September.

Tried last weekend but the puncture gods put an end to my quest.

wav1

Lads/Lassies could still do with a few more marshalls for Sunday.PM me if you can help at all.All Ireland football thing is taking a lot of help away.Thanks.