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Corkagh Park - access ??

  • 08-05-2014 10:14am
    #1
    miller82
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    Do people know, is it possible to just turn up on a saturday morning to Corkagh Park and spend an hour or two spinnign around the track or is there a more formal procedure ?

    thanks


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  • #2
    morana
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    miller82 wrote: »
    Do people know, is it possible to just turn up on a saturday morning to Corkagh Park and spend an hour or two spinnign around the track or is there a more formal procedure ?

    thanks

    yeah i am sure it is.


  • #3
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    It's open to the public provided it isn't booked for any events. AFAIK, there's no public calendar where you can check if the park is booked, so it's a case of showing up and checking if it's free.


  • #4
    Chips Lovell
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    Actually, there's a calendar here you can check.
    http://www.cyclingireland.ie/page/about/corkagh-pk


  • #5
    nak
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    Saturdays are generally fine. Think Orwell use it for youth training on Sundays.


  • #6
    CramCycle
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    Once there is nothing booked there at the time, anytime I have been down there have been people using it form a few different groups who were just walking in.


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  • #7
    miller82
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    cheers folks.

    looking to use it for some interval training this weekend. decent size and surface for that kind of thing ?


  • #8
    couerdelion
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    miller82 wrote: »
    cheers folks.

    looking to use it for some interval training this weekend. decent size and surface for that kind of thing ?

    It's a 1.1km loop so depending on what kind of intervals you are doing it should be fine. If it's 4 mins at FTP then you might find the constant cornering a bit of a pain. If it's 20s sprints then it's excellent.

    Surface is fantastic.


  • #9
    miller82
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    couerdelion wrote: »
    It's a 1.1km loop so depending on what kind of intervals you are doing it should be fine. If it's 4 mins at FTP then you might find the constant cornering a bit of a pain. If it's 20s sprints then it's excellent.

    Surface is fantastic.

    cheers for that.

    hhhmm, was looking at longer intervals than that. minimum of 4 mins sort of thing


  • #10
    couerdelion
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    Well there's nothing to stop you hammering it round the track for 4 mins at a time then taking it easy for a lap or two to recover - I'd guess it would be more like racing with sprinting out of corners etc and specificity in training is always good.


  • #11
    buffalo
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    couerdelion wrote: »
    Well there's nothing to stop you hammering it round the track for 4 mins at a time

    It'll be tough to really hammer it unless you're very lucky and there's nobody else on the track. Anytime I've gone there's usually been a couple of wobbly kids, and it's not nice to be zooming past them.


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