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Wicklow 200 - 13th June 2010

[Deleted User] · 2009-10-09 23:22:51

Too soon? Just noticed on the website that the date has been put up for the 13th June 2010 (that's a Sunday). Registration isn't open 'til December though :) http://www.wicklow200.ie/

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#452 13-06-2010 12:13PM

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Named and shamed. Thanks Dirk.

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#453 13-06-2010 12:14PM

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Just home. Did the 100k. Cycled down n back so about 140k total I reckon. Went around with Irishmotorist. Met Blowfish n Gimmeaminute briefly on Sugarloaf. They turned off to do the 200. Well done lads.
Lovely day for it. Warm, little wind. 100k is an easy enough route. Glad I did it though.

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#454 13-06-2010 12:15PM

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Raam wrote: »

Named and shamed. Thanks Dirk.

Sorry, I'll edit my post.

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#455 13-06-2010 12:16PM

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DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Sorry, I'll edit my post.

I'm just ribbing, I don't mind

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#456 13-06-2010 12:39PM

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Just back and had a great day. As Planet X mentioned above, we did most of the course together. Big thanks to him when I was starting to fade a little bit for the work he put in - it really gave me a bit of rest time and I was able to finish strongly enough. Met Blowfish and Gimmeaminute near the start bot broke off at the 100/200 split point. Rolling time of 3:39 which was ahead of my expectations so I'm delighted with that.

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#457 13-06-2010 12:46PM

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Just home as well. It was nice day, but it was boring doing all by myself. The first 50k was really easy, second 50k it was so and so. 3:48 saddle time which is quite ok for my unfitness.

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#458 13-06-2010 01:20PM

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One thing that I forgot to say was that when I was driving down the M11 towards the start, I passed a car with 2 bikes on the roof. I remember thinking to myself that I'd never trust myself to drive with my 2 wheeled P&J perched on top of my 4 wheeled P&J - I'd surely clobber it off something.

Anyway, a minute later as I'm looking in my rearview mirror, I see one of the bikes coming OFFthe car and obviously hitting the road. There was another car behind it that had to make a bit of an emergency move to prevent steamrollering it. That must have made for one disappointed man picking up pieces of his bike off the motorway.

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#459 13-06-2010 02:11PM

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Well done to everyone today, had a great day out.

Did the 100 - 3:34, 28km/h - happy with that

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#460 13-06-2010 02:23PM

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Just finished myself....feel a lot better than I did last year so that's good Weather was pretty amazin givin the forecast...the wind was a bit blustery and I never really knew which way it was blowing. I was with 3 mates who were a good bit slower than me so I managed to ditch them at about 60k and catch on to a nice paced peleton all the way back to Greystones. Have to say I was quite disappointed with the food. I don't like butter or mayo on my sandwiches so there was nothing for me at Rathrum and I was given a pathetic portion of pasta at the end....but overall it was much better organised (sign posted) than last year.

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#461 13-06-2010 02:45PM

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4:15 for me for the 100, relatively pleased with that. On my own for most of it but got in with a nice group for a while on the way back in which helped a bit.
Looks like the weather has turned, hope it's not too bad for those still out.

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#462 13-06-2010 02:50PM

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Yeah, poor souls will be getting it very hard with the increased wind and rain at the moment,

http://www.irlweather.com/wxradar.php

Must be murder up in the hills.

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#463 13-06-2010 04:02PM

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did the 100, no idea of rolling time (I mistakenly did a total reset on my computer at the start) about 5 hrs total including a leisurely break in rathdrum.

organisation was fine, though a bunch of us missed the turn in Ashford as it was marked by just one arrow on the road - elsewhere junctions were well marked, plenty of sandwiches in Rathdrum, saw marshalls in a good few places. (@Fletch - I'm sure they would've given you more pasta if you'd asked)

glad I did it - only really started cycling any distance this year, I enjoyed the day, helped by the pleasant weather (God help the 200k riders though, its been pissing down since I got home.) Fair dues to the guys I saw doing it on full-sus MTBs too - that must be the equivalent of 200 on a road bike.

Biggest struggle was the hill out of Avoca - I knew it was there from the map, but didn't expect it to be so long, turned out to be tougher than Long Hill which was the one I had been worried about.

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#464 13-06-2010 04:25PM

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myself and fran oconnor from here did the 100

it was my first sportive, so did in just a little over 4 hours, (including a few stops for stretching), so im happy with that

we left greystones at about 7, so nice and early ,i thought the food stop was great myself, very well organised, clean toilets, and nice cold water, again, seeing as we where there early, the place wasnt overly busy

my only complaint, and im just being a wee bit fussy here, was when we where leaving Newcastle, there was a V in the road, with no sign to kilcoole, myself and fran where second guessing ourselves for a few k's but thankfully we where grand

i also thought the grub at the end was pretty good, all the drinks where cold, and the food was fine, obviously not michelin standard, but it did me

and im chuffed with my little medal

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#465 13-06-2010 04:44PM

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and courtesy of the Greystones/Charlesland board, someone did do it on a db:

photo by pixbyjohn

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#466 13-06-2010 05:01PM

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100km in 4hrs 20mins and 23kmph avg speed, bit windy for the later starters..... but lovely day...

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#467 13-06-2010 05:15PM

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I did the 100 for the first time today. I thought it was well run with one exception: confusion over the location of the start. I and lots of others arrived at the Shoreline Leisure Centre good and early only to find no sign of any registration. Eventually someone established that there was another Shoreline Leisure Centre in Greystones. I think this confusion could easily have been avoided by a bit of foresight by the organisers.

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#468 13-06-2010 05:20PM

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hurricane147 wrote: »

I did the 100 for the first time today. I thought it was well run with one exception: confusion over the location of the start. I and lots of others arrived at the Shoreline Leisure Centre good and early only to find no sign of any registration. Eventually someone established that there was another Shoreline Leisure Centre in Greystones. I think this confusion could easily have been avoided by a bit of foresight by the organisers.

there's one in Bray and one in Greystones - I think the organisers fairly clearly stated that the event started in Greystones, but I can see how anyone coming off the N11 at Bray might have got confused.

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#469 13-06-2010 05:39PM

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Did the 100 in 5:10 enjoyed it apart from the Avoca - Glenealy stretch, very inconsiderate of the organisers to put hills where I hit my 60km wall! That being said last year I just wanted to throw my bike in the ditch at Moneystown and go asleep in the hedge so bitching is progress!

Check in was much better this year and the route was well marked.

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#470 13-06-2010 05:47PM

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First sportive and only 4th spin over 100k this year. Met a fair few boardsies and a few lurkers (hi all!).

The only disapointing thing about the day was that I didn't get in all that many decent groups. I had a group up to Sally Gap and one from Donard to Sleive Man. The rest of the time I was pretty much solo.

The highlight for me though definitely had to be the last part. Despite already having cycled further and done more climbing than I had before in a single sitting, with about 50k to go I realised that if I managed to do the last bit in an average speed of about 32kmh I could break the 7.30 mark, even though I hadn't managed anywhere near that average so far.

The legs wanted to give up, back was in bits, chest was burning, I was soaked to the skin as it was pouring down and my backside and nether regions were completely numb. Despite this, something in me didn't want to let go and I pushed on. Total rolling time:

7h23m.

F*cking epic.

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#471 13-06-2010 05:51PM

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^^^^^

Well done.

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#472 13-06-2010 06:12PM

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did the 100k on my full sus GT mtb on fat tires in just under five hours, and very very happy to get in before the rain!! back got pretty sore coming into newcastle but otherwise fine. Great morning for it and great event, really enjoyed it.

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#473 13-06-2010 06:19PM

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great day all round i got in a group(a team based in meath)from start to rathdrum so the first 50k was grand.the second fifty was hard but good crack.saw one guy hit a ditch on a descent but later on he finished with us.fair play to him he was cut up and all but kept going.we got lost near the finish as well but got back to graystones with a detour.again great day and well organised

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#474 13-06-2010 06:27PM

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Horrible, horrible weather...shivvering enough to make the bike jump around......

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#475 13-06-2010 06:30PM

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robs1 wrote: »

great day all round i got in a group(a team based in meath)from start to rathdrum so the first 50k was grand.the second fifty was hard but good crack.saw one guy hit a ditch on a descent but later on he finished with us.fair play to him he was cut up and all but kept going.we got lost near the finish as well but got back to graystones with a detour.again great day and well organised

Was that on the Sleive Mann descent? I passed a guy there picking his bike off the ground, but I was going about 50 at that point and there were a couple of people right behind me so braking to see if he was ok would have just caused a pile up.

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#476 13-06-2010 06:42PM

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no it was on the 100 route just after avoca.

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#477 13-06-2010 07:06PM

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Just back after my first 200. Really enjoyed it apart from the last 50k. Saw a few Boardsies and got to follow Sean Kelly down off Slieve Mann (for about 30 seconds!). Great day. 9 and a bit hours in the saddle.

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#478 13-06-2010 07:15PM

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202km for me. Cycled over Sally Gap on the way back to add a bit more climbing with Nietzchean and niceonetom and it was HORRIBLE: Hail, rain, cold, was shivering all the way down.
Saw a good few boardsies, Donal, cadex, buffalo, unionman to name a few. RAAM and Dirk wimped out at Kilbride ... I guess having no body fat is not always ideal when it gets cold ( I don't blame them though, you lucky feckers )

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#479 13-06-2010 07:30PM

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283km total for me. Most cycling I've ever done in a single day. Oddly enough I felt pretty good coming home even with the rain. Think my whole body has just gone into shock tbh, have a feeling tomorrow is going to be a bad day. Gonna be the slowest commute in history

Did the 200 in 7:13 which I'm really happy with, I wanted to get a sub 7:30 so hooray! Did lots of it alone too which makes me happier about the time, no group to help out pretty much from Aghavanna to the end. The reason I had no group though... the dudes from Drogheda CC were machines!! 3 times, once at the start and once after each foodstop I ended up in a group with them, and every time they shot me out the back like I was standing still. Fair play to them.

BTW was there another person who did it on a DB?? When me and ryaner were cycling down this morning we passed a guy on the N11 heading south who was in full cycling gear on a DB. At 5:45 on a Sunday morning I doubt he was going to work.

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#480 13-06-2010 07:38PM

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That almost turned into a disaster !! Had planned on a 6:30 7:00 ish start, that didnt happen 9:00 start way to late couldnt find anyone good to cycle with so done about 120km solo , the saddle sore on my hole drove me crazy i sat sideways for 150km.

But after everything going wrong felt great on the two climbs sleive m and shay e and passed about 100 people on each climb

All in all 7h 20min

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#481 13-06-2010 07:43PM

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Forgot to mention that I did not recognise Daniel Day Lewis at the hippy cafe in Laragh when he was sitting just in front of me ... he later overtook us up Sally Gap as well.

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