Mt Leinster Challenge this saturday (21st) - Climb comparison

saccades

Slaney CC Mt Leinster challenge this weekend and just wondering how savage the main drag up the Corrobutt gap is compared to stuff like the wicklow gap/shay elliot climbs.

Is it a steady drag or steep at the start/end?

Time constraints by the fun police mean I'll only be doing the 100km route.

aimnburn

Ah its yerself!

I did it the opposite (and easier) way a couple of weeks ago. That descent was long and fast so I expect it to be a difficult climb, especially as we'll be doing it twice.

saccades wrote: »

Time constraints by the fun police mean I'll only be doing the 100km route.

Well, some of us will be doing it twice

I expect it to be more like the climb from Laragh up the Wicklow way. Them legs are gonna burn!

07Lapierre

Did the 140 route before... The first ascent has a steep section at the beginning and then gets a bit steeper in the middle. It then levels off a bit from there.

The second ascent is grand... Steady from the start.

(Not from the area so don't know the road names)

TheBlaaMan

Corrabut is tougher than the Shay Elliot from Laragh, by a fair margin. It is far shorter but will hurt........and dont worry anyway, there'll be a photographer at the top to document the walk-of-shame if anyone dismounts, so that will be enough motivation to keep you going!

You only climb the Corrabut once, the second time up is from Bunclody

fat bloke

Steep side is like "the wall" down by powerscourt / djouce - short, steep. Other side is like sally gap - long, draggy and rampy.

saccades

@aimnburn :tips hats: will keep an eye out for the bike again. Would love to do the 140km now that the fitness is back to pre-Xmas levels but the extra 90 mins or so will use up more brownie points than are in existence so 100km it is.


@TheBlaaman Humm, I m 100kg and can feel it all on steep climbs, this is gonna hurt even with a 11:32 cassette and a compact. I'll practive my gurns in the mirror.

aimnburn

saccades wrote: »

@aimnburn :tips hats: will keep an eye out for the bike again. Would love to do the 140km now that the fitness is back to pre-Xmas levels but the extra 90 mins or so will use up more brownie points than are in existence so 100km it is.

I hear ya. I had this in the calendar for some time and I missed out on Orwell due to a Christening, which I wasn't told about until two weeks before the event! It was actually that weekend that I did some of this route in reverse the day after the Christening.

Weather is looking a bit poxy for Saturday but will hopefully improve. Some sections are very exposed so wind / rain will make it a handful. I also didn't like those cattle grids. It was wet and foggy went I did it. I actually got off the bike and walked over them as they just looked lethal. IF its wet on Saturday I'll do the same again.

saccades

I had the W200 in the calendar since my 2014 spin, but a first communion and now Simply effin Red have announced they are doing a concert in Cork on the saturday night before the event on the sunday and the missus and all potential baby sitters are going so I can't do it.

I'm ignoring the weather - it'll be nice with a wind on our backs on the way up . Think I'm ok with cattle grids, bit like roots on a mtb trail, I'll know when I see them.

Eamonnator

The cattle grids have been replaced.

http://www.slaneycyclingclub.com/?page_id=33

borris4

Corrabut Gap is short at 1.5km but no give on it and ramps up to 20% at the top.
Take it handy early on, and enjoy the pain.
Tougher than any climb on W200.
But to put it in perspective, the climb from the Nine Stones to the Mast on Mt Leinster is just as steep and twice as long.

cython

Eamonnator wrote: »

The cattle grids have been replaced.

http://www.slaneycyclingclub.com/?page_id=33

Think that's old news from last year's edition, to be fair, as they were new enough ones up there for the RAI last September-ish, and I remember that same post from the run up to that

borris4

Yep, all the grids have been replaced. Road surface on the descent is poor, and significant risk with on coming traffic as the lower section is blind and very narrow.
Still a fantastic place to cycle.