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Worth taking out a racing licence now....

  • 01-05-2014 8:23pm
    #1
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭


    So after a hard winters training and getting fit at the last min I had to withdraw/put my racing plans on hold.
    Now hopefully from late May onwards I should be able to join chaos HOWEVER this effectivley means just June and July -> August hols -> then whatever races appear in Sept.
    So is it worth taking out a licence at this 'late' stage considering the racing season is loaded towards Ras season in May!
    Boarsd'ies speak to me.....


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  • #2
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Yes. Always yes.


  • #3
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Yes. Always yes.

    Aye you have 5 months with races almost every weekend in leinster, plus our club league, plus Drogheda Wheelers 6 week Summer league. Lots of racing, alot of it very close to home.


  • #4
    Plastik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭Plastik


    Yep.


  • #5
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Aye you have 5 months with races almost every weekend in leinster, plus our club league, plus Drogheda Wheelers 6 week Summer league. Lots of racing, alot of it very close to home.
    Thanks.
    However....cant do midweek races due to work commitents.
    And how do you manage to get 5 months
    Considering it will be the last weekend of May/First weekend of June before I can pin a number onto my back and am away for a good chunk of Aug!


  • #6
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    bcmf wrote: »
    Thanks.
    However....cant do midweek races due to work commitents.
    And how do you manage to get 5 months
    Considering it will be the last weekend of May/First weekend of June before I can pin a number onto my back and am away for a good chunk of Aug!

    If you made the effort to get into shape for open racing, would be a shame to waste it, especially if you can't get the LC license and do the Club League due to work. The license fee is a drop in the ocean of the costs of open racing anyways with 15 euro sign on and 100+ km round trips in the car...


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  • #7
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    A quick scan of the CI calendar shows that realistically I could get to 7 races in June /July.
    I reckon it will take about 2 weeks hard work to get back the strenght/speed I had back in late Feb/March and hopefully that would be enough to make sure I dont get my arse handed to me by lads who have been racing since March.

    2 weeks for 7 races and whatever pops up in Sept.


  • #8
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Inquitus wrote: »
    If you made the effort to get into shape for open racing, would be a shame to waste it, especially if you can't get the LC license and do the Club League due to work. The license fee is a drop in the ocean of the costs of open racing anyways with 15 euro sign on and 100+ km round trips in the car...

    dont forget buying bikes!!

    bcmf - it is worth it. There are a load of races coming up between now and september.


  • #9
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    lennymc wrote: »
    dont forget buying bikes!!

    Buying them is fun, it's the crashing that sucks!


  • #10
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Buying them is fun, it's the crashing that sucks!

    i know that feeling.


  • #11
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    lennymc wrote: »
    dont forget buying bikes!!

    bcmf - it is worth it. There are a load of races coming up between now and september.

    Don't forget about cx in winter!


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  • #12
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    bcmf wrote: »
    A quick scan of the CI calendar shows that realistically I could get to 7 races in June /July.
    I reckon it will take about 2 weeks hard work to get back the strenght/speed I had back in late Feb/March and hopefully that would be enough to make sure I dont get my arse handed to me by lads who have been racing since March.

    2 weeks for 7 races and whatever pops up in Sept.

    Two weeks you say? I'm about to put that theory to the test quite soon myself!


  • #13
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Two weeks you say? I'm about to put that theory to the test quite soon myself!

    Well last Thursday I would have said at least a month BUT after how I felt today I would say 2 weeks.


  • #14
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    bcmf wrote: »
    Well last Thursday I would have said at least a month BUT after how I felt today I would say 2 weeks.

    Lets check in again tomorrow to see how you're feeling then!


  • #15
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    bcmf wrote: »
    Well last Thursday I would have said at least a month BUT after how I felt today I would say 2 weeks.

    Looked good today, I'd say you'd get around A4 even now.


  • #16
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    So 19 pb's on the usual sat spin with some into a headwind.
    The case is becoming compelling....


  • #17
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,763 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    bcmf wrote: »
    So 19 pb's on the usual sat spin with some into a headwind.
    The case is becoming compelling....

    Take it out now online, one space left in the club car for Wexford tomorrow :-)


  • #18
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Take it out now online, one space left in the club car for Wexford tomorrow :-)

    Would love to.. but my hands are tied till after the 15th at the very earliest.:(


  • #19
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,393 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    bcmf wrote: »
    but my hands are tied till after the 15th at the very earliest.:(
    Please!!!!

    What you're up to with RobFowl is of no interest tp the rest of us ....


  • #20
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Beasty wrote: »
    Please!!!!

    What you're up to with RobFowl is of no interest tp the rest of us ....
    Shhhhhh... Behind closed doors and all.

    He makes me wear some sort of hodge podge concoction of a Utd/City/Chelsea jersey and whips me.





    Oh and BTW dont wave back. Thursday late afternoon driving thru Balrothery!


  • #21
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    bcmf wrote: »

    He makes me wear some sort of hodge podge concoction of a Utd/City/Chelsea jersey and whips me.

    Squeal like a pig, boy......


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  • #22
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,393 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    bcmf wrote: »
    Oh and BTW dont wave back. Thursday late afternoon driving thru Balrothery!
    ... was more concerned with extracting myself from a potentially sticky situation...


  • #23
    wav1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭wav1


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Squeal like a pig, boy......
    Just go buy a licence bcmf.Dunsany next Sat morning done and dusted for midday will be your starter for ten.
    Getting it hard to get this deliverance stuff out of my head though.
    Will be avoiding Robfowl during the ras this year.


  • #24
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    wav1 wrote: »
    Just go buy a licence bcmf.Dunsany next Sat morning done and dusted for midday will be your starter for ten.
    Getting it hard to get this deliverance stuff out of my head though.
    Will be avoiding Robfowl during the ras this year.
    Nothing I would love more (Dunsany not deliverance) but as I have said the 16th of May is the VERY EARLIEST I can start and the 18th is out then whole of the following weekend. This is the crux of my dilema.


  • #25
    lennymc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭lennymc




  • #26
    killalanerr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭killalanerr


    It looks like you have made up your mind to come back just a word of warning be carefull or soon you will be takeing time off work to train and attend races not that i would do any of that sort of thing.cant get That pigy stuff out of my head now . . Not nice :)


  • #27
    wav1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭wav1


    killalanerr wrote: »
    It looks like you have made up your mind to come back just a word of warning be carefull or soon you will be takeing time off work to train and attend races not that i would do any of that sort of thing.cant get That pigy stuff out of my head now . . Not nice :)
    Think i'll bring my banjo on the ras now mate.


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