An Post Rás Diary

LCD

www.thebikestation.ie

If anyone has nothing better to do or likes reading about self induced torture I hope to keep a daily Rás diary here. Pre-race entry is up. Roll on Dunboyne Sunday

lennymc

looking forward to reading it! Best of luck LCD.

Jocry

Best of luck, cant wait to read the blog

fondriest

Best of luck. Enjoy !

zurbfoundation

good luck, tis some craic! Just don't stay too late in the bar in the Green Isle on Saturday night!!

wav1

zurbfoundation wrote: »

good luck, tis some craic! Just don't stay too late in the bar in the Green Isle on Saturday night!!

Do you mean just him or us all??Some traditions have to be upheld im afraid.

rckfld

Good luck

zurbfoundation

wav1 wrote: »

Do you mean just him or us all??Some traditions have to be upheld im afraid.

just the riders, till about Wednesday anyhow, if ur still standing after that, drink away.

Raymzor

Best of luck

pprendeville

Great read. Very funny. Keep the humour up.

wav1

zurbfoundation wrote: »

just the riders, till about Wednesday anyhow, if ur still standing after that, drink away.

Riders not welcome at night stages until at least Thursday .BTW i'm still not buying.

LCD

wav1 wrote: »

Riders not welcome at night stages until at least Thursday .BTW i'm still not buying.

Stage 1 wet, fast & a bit scary. New diary entry on its way. Finishec in bunch lots of crashes

greenmat

Great read, well done, looking forward to more.

pprendeville

You certainly have a way with the pen or the keyboard or whichever tool you use to write. Great post and keep them coming.

Solobally8

pprendeville wrote: »

You certainly have a way with the pen or the keyboard or whichever tool you use to write. Great post and keep them coming.

+ 1 great read. Best of luck for the rest of the week.

thebouldwhacker

Good luck LCD. I hope you do well and stay away from crashes.

LCD

Cheers for compliments. Today should be up soon. Appreciate loads of retweets @lcaomhind & use #ras2014

another tough day!!

LCD

Stage 3 is on its way! Relatively easy day

albert kidd

LCD wrote: »

Stage 3 is on its way! Relatively easy day

keep it lit bud.

its been a good read so far.

Scrappy600

That's a great read. Well done and good luck for the rest of the ras and blog...

moonshadow

Great day for Aiken and Nulty , Aiken really put it up to them c'mon the wee county !

jimzy

Brilliant updates, best of luck for the week!

Theresalwaysone

Good read. Rob Mac is a relation of mine. He'll be gutted you called him an Ozzie. Ozzie by circumstance. Irish by the grace of God.

LCD

Noticed last night at dinnef I didnt have usual appetite, then stomach wax not feeling good. Diarrhoea 4 or 5 times during the night. Collapsed in hotel this morning. Came round & managed some breakfast but diarrhoea still happening. Started the stage & swinging from the gun. After 60km iwas taking tows from cars to just hang onto the grupetto. Knew I couldnt do another 120km. 2 other guys on team had same thing & we all packed it. Gutted absolutely gutted. All the training & scarificez for less than 4 days.

daragh_

LCD wrote: »

Noticed last night at dinnef I didnt have usual appetite, then stomach wax not feeling good. Diarrhoea 4 or 5 times during the night. Collapsed in hotel this morning. Came round & managed some breakfast but diarrhoea still happening. Started the stage & swinging from the gun. After 60km iwas taking tows from cars to just hang onto the grupetto. Knew I couldnt do another 120km. 2 other guys on team had same thing & we all packed it. Gutted absolutely gutted. All the training & scarificez for less than 4 days.

That's 4 days that most of us will only ever dream about. Total respect.

maloner

Sorry to hear that

stecleary

Unlucky man. I was enjoying the updates.
Head up and be proud of getting through what bit you did

thebouldwhacker

Heart breaking. Looking forward to the 2015 diary.

lennymc

bad luck LCD.

3102derek

tough break. Diary was a great read.

How does it work, if you fail to finish a stage are you kicked out of the whole thing?

surripere

Hard luck mate, sorry to here that. Enjoyed the read, thanks. Chapeau on riding the Ras.

Green&Red

Hard luck LCD

Scrappy600

tough luck lcd. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Bambaata

Sorry to hear that Liam!

smcclaw

Gutted for you. I hope you find something else to target for the season and make the best out of all that training

DKO

Very sorry to hear about this, really gutted for you, best of luck for best of season.

michael196

LCD wrote: »

Noticed last night at dinnef I didnt have usual appetite, then stomach wax not feeling good. Diarrhoea 4 or 5 times during the night. Collapsed in hotel this morning. Came round & managed some breakfast but diarrhoea still happening. Started the stage & swinging from the gun. After 60km iwas taking tows from cars to just hang onto the grupetto. Knew I couldnt do another 120km. 2 other guys on team had same thing & we all packed it. Gutted absolutely gutted. All the training & scarificez for less than 4 days.

@LCD, did u get into the broom ?

michael196

michael196 wrote: »

@LCD, did u get into the broom ?

ok just checked, u did not get into the broom. We had three lads in the broom today, an Australian Team Subaru Albion was the first. Same symptoms, . Race doctor over the radio announced an outbreak of vomit bug and diahorea on the Race.

the Australian was in bits, shivering no energy. THe Broom carries blankets for riders needing attention. THe Australian lad, took the blanket, wrapped up, tuned up the heat, and fell aspleep in the front of the cab. Subsequently we picked up louth south and Louth north riders, all the same symptoms. Each had the same dinner choice back in Lisdoonvarna.

Puts the Australia Team Suburu Albion in jeopardy astheir team is now reduced to 2 (?) 3(?).

Raymzor

your updates will be missed-they were giving a very good insight. fair play for giving today a go. you must have felt miserable on the road. savour the experience of the first four days-you have a lot to be proud of.:)

shefellover93

Boggles my mind how people can actually ride these distances day after day!

Fantastic diary LCD and gutted to hear about you pulling out. If the first few days have shown anything it's that you're more than capable of riding the whole thing! As someone already said, eagerly awaiting the 2015 diary!

pprendeville

Echo everyone else commiserations. Fantastic diary (much better than Roche's or Deignan's). Maybe they're was something worse around the corner like a bad crash or something so try and keep positive. Still a lot of races to be be done and you can tell the mother in law you pulled out as you wanted more family time. Good brownie points to be earned.

ryan_sherlock

My race didn't exactly go to plan, but in the spirit of keeping a diary, I wrote up something:

http://ryansherlock.blogspot.ie/2014/05/2014-anpost-ras.html

For the first time, no video blogs each day - maybe that was the problem!

albert kidd

ryan_sherlock wrote: »

My race didn't exactly go to plan, but in the spirit of keeping a diary, I wrote up something:

http://ryansherlock.blogspot.ie/2014/05/2014-anpost-ras.html

For the first time, no video blogs each day - maybe that was the problem!

good read also.

what did you mean by having garmin you can tell exactly what happened?

ryan_sherlock

albert kidd wrote: »

good read also.

what did you mean by having garmin you can tell exactly what happened?

Well - not *exactly* - about a second before speed went to zero, I know what cadence, Wattage, speed etc... I was doing.

albert kidd

ryan_sherlock wrote: »

Well - not *exactly* - about a second before speed went to zero, I know what cadence, Wattage, speed etc... I was doing.

have you now:D

all the best with the injuries...hopefully your back pounding the roads soon.