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  • #422
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,499 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Staro wrote: »
    I suggest 3 laps of the Harry Reynolds circuit?????
    Too many hillocks around there .... ;)


  • #423
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    Too many hillocks around there .... ;)

    Pu$$y!


  • #424
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,499 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Lusk Doyle wrote: »
    Pu$$y!
    So what's the distance then LD?


  • #425
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    So what's the distance then LD?

    Distance.


  • #426
    crosswords
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭crosswords


    Great race last night in group 4. The extended circuit works really well.

    Thanks to the marshal who shouted a warning about the potholes on the new bit. You've got to stay over on the right hand side on that section otherwise it's curtains.

    Very surprised that we didn't catch the leaders with all the all the good work by everyone, but we stayed away from scratch.

    Love that circuit except for the dogs. Dogs everywhere.


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  • #427
    greenmat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭greenmat


    Lusk Doyle wrote: »
    Group 3 was very surprising yesterday evening. We set off and at the filling station where we turned right the first time I was at the front. I was feeling good so didn't mind if I had any prolonged periods at the front pulling the group along. Very quickly there was just three of us (me, Killalaner and another lad in black and green). How had this gap formed so soon into the race? I made a quick calculation that if this had happened so soon that the group would never catch the earlier groups and would indeed be caught by the later groups and decided to push on in order to catch the others up front.

    The three of us were then joined by the small dublin wheelers chap, the lad who wears the quickstep gear on the Saturday morning spin (I think), one of the Coleman bros and number 288 in a black jersey. We all pushed on but I found that each time another person came to the front that the pace was dropping too much. I knew that I had a chance to get away and maybe catch those in front. The first part of group three was never going to be able to make it, it was clear to me.

    We passed Raam and his lady at one junction and they shouted 6"35 to the front of the race or something like that. We kept going. I was constantly at the front now and at the base of Ardcath I decided to go alone and try to catch the lads up the road so I pushed on up the hill and got a nice gap very quickly.

    The next time passing Raam and co the gap was down to approximately 2"30 or so. Feeling good and closing fast I was spurred on. Out of the saddle on all the drags powering up the road I was beginning to pass the stragglers from earlier and just before the last left turn before the run up to Ardcath I saw the lead group.

    At the bend in the road in Ardcath the next groups lead car came past me and I got such a fright and thought that the game was up. Not so - they were still way back as I crested the hill for the last time. Passed more riders on the final run in to Garristown and as I crested the top of the last hill before the finish I had almost bridged the gap but it was too late and there was not enough road left to get across. Dave, in the orange team Worc gear came past me on the hill but was also unable to get up for a place.

    I really enjoyed that race and was delighted with how strong I felt all the way through. No result but that matters not a bit!

    Edit: Average speed 37.1kph, Max speed 67.1kph, Total time 57:22, Cadence 80, Average HR 174, Max HR 189, Strava Analysis - "Sufferfest"!!!
    Great race report. What was the time difference given between group 2 and group 3 at the start? By what your saying we must have worked harder than I thought to stay away, and in fairness the 6 or so riders who did put in loads in group 2 took the points. Brillant circuit, well done to all who organise and give us the opportunity to race.


  • #428
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    I think the gap was 3.5 minutes from group two back to three plus whatever the gap from one to two was.


  • #429
    greenmat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭greenmat


    Lusk Doyle wrote: »
    I think the gap was 3.5 minutes from group two back to three plus whatever the gap from one to two was.
    G1 to G2 was 5 mins I think, only caught the last 2 from G1 about 1km after Ardcath climb on last lap. Got a few F's when passing:).


  • #430
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    greenmat wrote: »
    G1 to G2 was 5 mins I think, only caught the last 2 from G1 about 1km after Ardcath climb on last lap. Got a few F's when passing:).

    So that means that two mins were made up by the first time we passed Raam and a further four mins the second time we passed him with contact to the leaders almost being made at the finish. The spacings were almost perfect so.


  • #431
    greenmat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭greenmat


    Lusk Doyle wrote: »
    The spacings were almost perfect so.

    I knew without really pushing we were doomed, think I sacrificed an even better placing for the good of the group, or in other words the noobie got screwed.:(


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  • #432
    manwithaplan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,201 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    That's a hard call - 5th in the group when it means something is better than 1st when it means nothing.


  • #433
    greenmat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭greenmat


    manwithaplan wrote: »
    That's a hard call - 5th in the group when it means something is better than 1st when it means nothing.
    That placing meant a lot. It amazing, all your told and all you read means nothing till your in the thick of it. You still do things wrong but you live to fight another day. Was some thrill knowing I was in the front of the race with everyone else chasing me down, loved it. Joined this year hoping to experience that and was really worth all the effort. Imagine if I had of won, definatly would have retired.


  • #434
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,444 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Anyone coming along?


  • #435
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Anyone coming along?

    I'm planning to. Will have to see if I get out of work on time.


  • #436
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Anyone coming along?

    Yes.


  • #437
    dario28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭dario28


    Lusk Doyle wrote: »
    Yes.

    Fast or hilly or both ?

    Report please


  • #438
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    dario28 wrote: »
    Fast or hilly or both ?

    Report please

    It's a surprise! I wouldn't want to ruin it for you ;)


  • #439
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,499 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Lusk Doyle wrote: »
    It's a surprise! I wouldn't want to ruin it for you ;)
    Flat, apart from the hills... ;)


  • #440
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,444 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    dario28 wrote: »
    Fast or hilly or both ?

    Report please

    Both.....(Make sure you know where the finish line is too!)


  • #441
    GlennaMaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭GlennaMaddy


    It's two years since I raced this circuit, I seem to remember it comprising both pristine fast rolling tarmac followed by some of the roughest surfaces in NCD.


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  • #442
    jimbo28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭jimbo28


    Is sign on in garristown for this lads? What time is first group off?


  • #443
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,789 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Nice night to Marshall anyways. Do I shout the time to Grp 1 to assist all the chasers? or the time to the next group up the road? Also could I bring the young lad along to help or is marshalling no place for kids?


  • #444
    jimbo28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭jimbo28


    Scratch that..........just checked the club website:o


  • #445
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Nice night to Marshall anyways. Do I shout the time to Grp 1 to assist all the chasers? or the time to the next group up the road? Also could I bring the young lad along to help or is marshalling no place for kids?

    Next group up for me please. I won't be able to see because I'll be drafting off the ambulance.


  • #446
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Nice night to Marshall anyways. Do I shout the time to Grp 1 to assist all the chasers? or the time to the next group up the road? Also could I bring the young lad along to help or is marshalling no place for kids?

    Time gap to the front please, nice and loud and keep saying it till the last person in the group passes (me!).

    What age is the little'un? Should be fine but remember you are standing on a road!


  • #447
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,789 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Hungrycol wrote: »
    Time gap to the front please, nice and loud and keep saying it till the last person in the group passes (me!).

    What age is the little'un? Should be fine but remember you are standing on a road!

    He's 6, so should be grand I think.


  • #448
    Billycake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 77 ✭✭Billycake


    I'm due to marshall tonight but stuck in work so I'm going to have pull out. Problem is I've no contact numbers for the chief marshall for tonight or anyone else for that matter. I've emailed one of the commitee and the chief marshall but I want to make sure they know before the race. Anyone here got a number they can PM me by any chance?
    Thanks & enjoy the race (& weather)


  • #449
    GlennaMaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭GlennaMaddy


    Billycake wrote: »
    I'm due to marshall tonight but stuck in work so I'm going to have pull out. Problem is I've no contact numbers for the chief marshall for tonight or anyone else for that matter. I've emailed one of the commitee and the chief marshall but I want to make sure they know before the race. Anyone here got a number they can PM me by any chance?
    Thanks & enjoy the race (& weather)
    pm sent


  • #450
    jimbo28
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭jimbo28


    jimbo28 wrote: »
    Scratch that..........just checked the club website:o

    Seems i can predict the future.Arrived for my first league race off the year tonight and what a night for it.Went up to sign on and the bould beasty kinda :) insisted that i should be put in group 4.It turned out that only 5 scratch lads showed up and so the groups were combined.Cant be too bad I thought.Turned out i was ok for the first lap and contributed fairly well to the up and overs.......sat-in 1 or 2 times to get a breather and then up again.Felt o.k until we hit the hill in garristown for the first time.I started at the front and just seemed to drift all the way to the back and then before I knew it there was a gap to the back of the group........was gasping (The auld weekend smokes are killing me altogether) and had to put in a steady effort to get back on.From here on it was the same thing for all of lap 2,had the back wheel fishtail on a manhole during the second lap at a time when the hammer was down and again nearly got dropped off the back again.The second time up the hill was not so bad as we had group 3 caught and this seemed to steady the pace a bit for a while.At this stage I just sat on the wheels of group 4 and rolled into the finish ( Tried to join back into the up and overs but only got in the way).Enjoyed it all the same but it was fast.I turned off my computer at the start when i heard scratch were joining us and was probably better off........someone said our average was 42kph but i cant confirm that.Gonna try and stick with group 4 for the next few weeks and hopefully it will not be as fast.Savage training all the same, think i need a bit more of it.Thanks to lads for marshalling and organising.Roll on next week.


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  • #451
    honkjelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭honkjelly


    Horrendous move by me on the run into the finish Garristown. Should have backed off when I saw the jeep. Apologies.


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