Mount Leinster Challenge 2015

MichealD

Just a heads up to everyone that entry for the 10th Mount Leinster Challenge Sportive has recently opened. Saturday May 16th is the date, 140km & 100km routes and entry is again restricted to 300 riders with online entry only and no entry on the day. Plenty of places taken at this stage so don't leave it too late if you'd like to take part!

Entry remains at €25 for CI members, €28 for non CI and entry by this link only - http://registration.precisiontiming.co.uk/events/preview?id=194



Both routes climb Mount Leinster from the Carlow direction climbing the infamous Corrobutt Gap while the longer 140kph route takes in a 2nd ascent of the mountain this time from the Bunclody side.



More information, routes, maps and link to register at http://www.slaneycyclingclub.com/?page_id=33




100s of pictures from last years event including some boardsies here
http://pix.ie/liamr/albums








The Mount Leinster Challenege hosted by Slaney CC

Great cycling, great company, great climbs, great foodstop!

MichealD

Only a small number of places still available for this years Mount Leinster Challenge. Entry will probably close tomorrow so if you would like to take part this is you last call!

andy69

MichealD wrote: »

Only a small number of places still available for this years Mount Leinster Challenge. Entry will probably close tomorrow so if you would like to take part this is you last call!

it's been a bit quite of late....just checking are we all systems go for tomorrow?
Really looking forward to this, and (dare I say it) YR are giving a nice forecast for the day too!!

fat bloke

Signed up. Looking forward to it.

MichealD

andy69 wrote: »

it's been a bit quite of late....just checking are we all systems go for tomorrow?
Really looking forward to this, and (dare I say it) YR are giving a nice forecast for the day too!!

Definitely all systems go! Today's prep started at 6.30am this morning and two road crews are out marking roads as we speak. Alarms set for 3am tomorrow in this house to start baking again!

We have one hiccup landed on us this week. The Leinster council have scheduled a minor match between Wexford and Dublin for the Bellefield ground at 3pm tomorrow. This will restrict some of our access to parking and dressing rooms so shower facilities will not be available in Bellefield but at another sports facility about 500m away. Awkward but only informed this Monday and too late to seek an alternative venue.

Apart from that everything looks go on the route. The three cattle grids on Mt Leinster have been replaced since last year and are much more user friendly.

Entry is full and hopefully the weather will play its part. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.

andy69

MichealD wrote: »

Definitely all systems go! Today's prep started at 6.30am this morning and two road crews are out marking roads as we speak. Alarms set for 3am tomorrow in this house to start baking again!

We have one hiccup landed on us this week. The Leinster council have scheduled a minor match between Wexford and Dublin for the Bellefield ground at 3pm tomorrow. This will restrict some of our access to parking and dressing rooms so shower facilities will not be available in Bellefield but at another sports facility about 500m away. Awkward but only informed this Monday and too late to seek an alternative venue.

Apart from that everything looks go on the route. The three cattle grids on Mt Leinster have been replaced since last year and are much more user friendly.

Entry is full and hopefully the weather will play its part. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow.

oh great! it's gotta be the best foodstop there is - thought I was bad having to get up at 6am, don't envy you at 3am! wow!

and that's great news on the cattle grids - they were badly in need of an update alright! I won't miss the bunny-hop-lottery over them old ones! ha!:)

Jim Stynes

Good luck for tomorrow Andy!

DirkVoodoo

Looking forward to this, haven't done it in a few years but always had good memories from it!

MichealD

andy69 wrote: »

oh great! it's gotta be the best foodstop there is - thought I was bad having to get up at 6am, don't envy you at 3am! wow!

and that's great news on the cattle grids - they were badly in need of an update alright! I won't miss the bunny-hop-lottery over them old ones! ha!:)

You can still bunny hop them if you like but this year you also just cycle over them! Picture below of the first of three grids on Mt Leinster.

(Like all cattle grids we advise riders to cross with care, slow down but not too slow, make sure you keep your front wheel straight, 90deg to the bars, and it's not a good time to take your hands off the handlebars!)

Buzwaldo

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This will restrict some of our access to parking and dressing rooms so shower facilities will not be available in Bellefield but at another sports facility about 500m away. Awkward but only informed this Monday and too late to seek an alternative venue.[/quote]

Where are the revised shower facilities? Might park near there for convenience. Thanks.

MichealD

Buzwaldo wrote: »

Where are the revised shower facilities? Might park near there for convenience. Thanks.

Enniscorthy Astro Turf centre, adjacent to Co Wexford Community Workshops, opposite Maxol service station which is just 100m from entrance to Mt Leinster Car Parking.

andy69

Well done MichaelD and all the team, really enjoyed the event, really well organised and everyone very helpful and friendly, Great day out and great weather too! Incredible views out from the top of the hill.

was very hard to leave that foodstop!!

My Garmin battery went flat so I don't have times etc, but it felt like we flew round it :-)

fat bloke

Great day. Fair play to all involved. Fabulous weather. That view from the road up the side of Mount Leinster is stunning.
Both times!

I had to drag myself out of that foodstop before I ate myself into a sugary stupor!

NeedMoreGears

Only just made it out of the food stop before the sausages arrived. Close run thing , otherwise I would still be there.

Big thanks to Slaney for usual great day out. Managed to get under five hours at last so well pleased.

Buzwaldo

Great event. Managed the 140 today and dare I say the second ascent was easier (probably because I feared worse). Thanks to the Orwell group who I slotted in with. Big representation today from them.

bog_savage

Thanks for a great event guys , wish we had a hill like that in the midlands .
Made me realise I need more big hill training , the locals were climbing like raped goats compared to me

fat bloke

Will pics be posted up anywhere as a matter of interest?

fondriest

fat bloke wrote: »

Will pics be posted up anywhere as a matter of interest?

Lots of pics on Sean Rowe's Facebook page .

fat bloke

None of the corrabutt suffer pics up yet

MichealD

fat bloke wrote: »

None of the corrabutt suffer pics up yet

You are still blinded from seeing stars due to a lack of oxygen on the Corrobutt!!

Sean Rowe uploaded over 400 photos on Saturday evening. ( He took over 2500 pictures!!)

You can find them thru his own page and they have been shared on the Slaney CC facebook page. Follow this link : https://www.facebook.com/sean.rowe.545/media_set?set=a.10207099678434897.1073742147.1369415804&type=1

There are also other photos on the Slaney facebook page.

MichealD

Many thanks to all the participants in the MLC on Saturday who made it such an enjoyable day to be part of. We put a lot of effort into the day and its nice when the one thing we can't organise - the weather - plays its part. We hope you finally had the wind on you backs on the way home to Enniscorthy. Well done to everyone who took part.

As mentioned in the previous post there are a mountain ((sorry!) of great photos taken by Sean Rowe on his and the Slaney facebook pages and retweeted on @liamruth. The mountain looked fantastic but the pictures don't show the fierce wind and chill at the top.

Two riders left their helmets behind which we have safe. One owner made contact this morning. If you are missing your helmet get in touch. We also recovered a bottle cage still in one piece. Again if you lost one get in touch.

Finally the event could not work without the amazing and unseen work and untold hours that the women of the Kiltealy and Bellefield feed stops put in. Simply speaking if we did not have them we would have no Mount Leinster Challenge.

Hope to see many of you again next year.

andy69

I had the camera rolling on the bike at various points around the course. Here's a link to the video...

https://youtu.be/XQzAVqb0Rv4

....broadband is pretty poor here, so I just uploaded it at low quality but it still came out alright I think

fat bloke

Nice one. Found em.

For anyone else struggling to find themselves. There are a lot of extra pics in the "mobile uploads" album that aren't in the Mount Leinster 2015 one.

fondriest

andy69 wrote: »

I had the camera rolling on the bike at various points around the course. Here's a link to the video...

https://youtu.be/XQzAVqb0Rv4

....broadband is pretty poor here, so I just uploaded it at low quality but it still came out alright I think

Thanks Andy my arse is now famous. Judging by the footage I was talking to you a couple of times during the day I was in the grey kit on a white Colnago.

MichealD

fondriest wrote: »

Thanks Andy my arse is now famous. Judging by the footage I was talking to you a couple of times during the day I was in the grey kit on a white Colnago.

In fairness Fondriest your arse was always famous.


It was just in a different forum.......!

andy69

fondriest wrote: »

Thanks Andy my arse is now famous. Judging by the footage I was talking to you a couple of times during the day I was in the grey kit on a white Colnago.

ah good man, yeah that's right - nice to meet you

did your mate get the KOM in the end? I think I was doing about 7 or 8km/h on that segment - oh to be able to fly up them hills!!

fondriest

andy69 wrote: »

ah good man, yeah that's right - nice to meet you

did your mate get the KOM in the end? I think I was doing about 7 or 8km/h on that segment - oh to be able to fly up them hills!!

Yeah he went up it at 17.7kph , I hate climbers :-)

andy69

fondriest wrote: »

Yeah he went up it at 17.7kph , I hate climbers :-)

:eek: wow!! Fair play, that's seriously impressive going!