Tell us about your cycle today part III

It's going to be cool and wet tomorrow morning until about 11ish. You'll be climbing from the point you hit the N81 until your goal. The tomb itself is on top of the mountain. Bring other shoes, you'd be foolish to try climbing a boggy mountain in cleats. You can deduct at least 3C from the suggested temperature once you're on top of the mountain. Bring/wear the most breathable jacket you own and possibly spare socks!

Your original suggestion of Lough Tay is only 8 km further on but you'll have to climb over Sally Gap to get there. It's easiest from the Manor Kilbride side but it's gonna hurt anyway.

Best of luck.

thanks for all the tips, weather was a lot better than expected till we got up into the hills, got pretty cold and damp then and my knees starting giving out about it! Didn’t manage to climb the last bit on foot as we couldn’t find an obvious pathway and were a bit wary about leaving the bikes alone, we decided to get the flask out and have a coffee and a bikki and 2 other lads arrived and decided to skip the foot climb as well. I havnt been on the bike in 2 or 3 weeks and my body wasn’t long in telling me, I had to get off and walk up one pretty short steep climb right at the end for a few minutes which was a bit disheartening but other than that a really enjoyable spin. We averaged 18kph so not too bad considering we were carrying panniers and doing hills for the first time

113km / 800m / 23km/h on Saturday night

Fully dark for most of it love night cycling

You're codding me......ill get my coat and leave

Was out for an off road spin yesterday and before entering wood had to cross Sir Thomas's bridge over Suir.

Its about 1km from bridge to base of Ticincor and it that time I passed a lone male jogger and what looked like a couple; she was running and he was cycling beside her. If I wasn't kind of local they would have looked like your ordinary Sunday morning folk taking exercise.

Instead I had just passed a man who once podiumed at the cycling national championships, rode the Nissan classic, a woman who has won marathons and the man on bike who has ran the fastest Irish marathon this year.

I was nearly going to turn around and go home 😕

15km on th mountain bike over the hill behind the house. considering the doom and gloom forecast. out in shorts and a gilet. bit wet because riding through wet cloud on the hills

Day off, so I headed off at 10. 76km around a very mucky North County. Fantastic morning to be out, 18c when I left, thin base layer, ss jersey, shorts, very happy with that for early October.

Nice handy spin up to Ashbourne for a coffee, I am terrified to venture back near the mountains after last weeks exertions so I’m sticking to the flat stuff for a while!

Just a short spin on the beater in the hills above Caragh Lake west of Killorglin. Can’t wait to get back here on the road bike. The roads and the views are fantastic.

Spun the emptiest roads in a while to Skerries.

Julianstown to stamullen then Happy Valley to Man O War and across the hill to Skerries via a little stop at Loughshinney.