Duleek Parish sponsored cycle

lennymc

Hi,

A friend of mine and fellow racer is organising a sponsored cycle in association with the Drogheda wheelers. The cycle is on this weekend, and is in aid of a new primary school for the boys and girls of Duleek.

The event flyer is attached.

It looks like a nice route through the meath countryside, and the weather promises to be reasonable.

Flyer attached, and contact details are available on it.

Thanks,
Lenny

lennymc

reminder - this is on this weekend. Should be a good event for a worthwhile cause!

bcmf

Lenny is Duleek the place near the cement factory/incerator?
If so I may head up as a few lads from work are doing it.

lennymc

bcmf wrote: »

Lenny is Duleek the place near the cement factory/incerator?
If so I may head up as a few lads from work are doing it.

yup.

Duleek

bren_mc

lennymc wrote: »

yup.

Duleek

Is the gaa grounds near where you have the marker on the map? Can't seem to find it on google street view.

lennymc

bren_mc wrote: »

Is the gaa grounds near where you have the marker on the map? Can't seem to find it on google street view.

ehhh. Im gonna say yeah, but in all honesty i dont know. It probably is Im sure it will be signposted. Give us a shout on the way over. (i assume your cycling across)

lennymc

gaa grounds location

looks like its just past the marker on the map.

bren_mc

lennymc wrote: »

ehhh. Im gonna say yeah, but in all honesty i dont know. It probably is Im sure it will be signposted. Give us a shout on the way over. (i assume your cycling across)

ok will do.

Jawgap

GAA Grounds are through the village.

Head along the main street, past the church, past the Spar (on your right) - stay that road and they're about 500m further on.

http://goo.gl/maps/OMA9a

Zorba

Looking forward to this, only my second sportive of the year !

lennymc

lovely spin this morning. great turn out. Over 100 riders signed on for the 80k spin. Andrew asked me to pass on his thanks to everyone who turned up for this.

Lenny

bcmf

Raging I had to miss this. Family (sons footie) commitments.

Lenny do you know if Drogheda wheelers are organising the same spins as they did last year in early/late November?

wav1

bcmf wrote: »

Raging I had to miss this. Family (sons footie) commitments.

Lenny do you know if Drogheda wheelers are organising the same spins as they did last year in early/late November?

Keven King Tour is on Sun Oct 2th[crankgate spin] ha ha.Same route as today.More details during the week.
Also we will be having our usual Louth Coastal Tour at the end of November.
Great day for todays spin and what a turnout.Thanks to Andrew for hosting.

wav1

Sorry bcmf that last post should read Sun Oct 27th.Bank holiday Sunday.

bcmf

Crankgate spin har de fecking har :rolleyes:
Great stuff. Will look forward to it.

Zorba

Really enjoyed this spin, very well organised and marshalled and there was a great turn out for a great cause.

Hopefully this will be on again next year.

Was a speedy enough spin, strava had 31.7km avg, 72km in 2hr15mins but my computer had an average speed of 31.9km, computer sounds better ! Quite enjoyed the mini race at the end even though it wasn't a race, makes me wonder should i give racing a bit of a go next year ?

bcmf

Zorba wrote: »

makes me wonder should i get racing a bit of a go next year ?

Yes. DO IT!

Zorba

bcmf wrote: »

Yes. DO IT!

Yeah racing will be sure to bring me back down to earth with a BANG!

bcmf

Only if you crash :P

Zorba

bcmf wrote: »

Only if you crash :P

Have no fear will use me daughters stabilisers !

adoks2008

Hi all , Andrew here from Organising Committee. Huge success for a number of reasons. The fantastic assistance from all cycling fraternity who helped steward and do lead cars, cycling family once again show what a great sport we have. To all the riders, who took part in the 80kms and 14kms spins, great to see the way they conducted themselves on the road, a credit again, this makes the organisers job very easy. Thanks to St Johns Ambulance - fantastic team. Thanks to Duleek-Bellewstown GAA club for their efforts. To all who supported us financially.

Finally many many thanks to all, hope all enjoyed and looking forward to next year already.

furiousox

As already mentioned above, great turnout, great marshalling and great foodstops.
Nice route with rolling hills, was quite warm at first but the rain cooled us down later on.
First decent spin for me in a month or two (bloody work getting in the way of cycling :rolleyes:)
Cycled over to Duleek so 95km for me door to door.
Hopefully will be an annual event?

Zorba

Anyone know if there's any pics of this up anywhere or will there be any in the near future ?

adoks2008

Thanks for the enquiry re photographs, yes - photographs of the event and a short video will be loaded up here and on Facebook later today Tuesday. Thanks again

lennymc

Photos available on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/duleekparish.sponsoredcycles/photos

bren_mc

lennymc wrote: »

Photos available on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/duleekparish.sponsoredcycles/photos

Do you have to sign up to facebook to see them or can anyone view? Can't get on to it in work anyway.

adoks2008

Bren, if you cannot get pics open I will make a copy on cd for you.

bren_mc

adoks2008 wrote: »

Bren, if you cannot get pics open I will make a copy on cd for you.

thanks adoks. the missus has an account so should be able to get them:)