Planet X

4th Dec.

FRIDAY: 4 X (10 X 30kg.) Bench Press.
Not alot but just starting off. Do some each winter.

SATURDAY: 4:45min. Hilly. AvHR 132BPM.

TUESDAY 8TH.: 5 x (10 x 30kg.) Benchpress.

FRIDAY 11th.: Christmas Party, problem!

SUNDAY 13th.: 5 X (10 X 30kg. ) Benchpress.

Not a good week.
Half hour commute every day. Piddle.

Will crucify myself next week.

17th. January.
Vets Tour; 5hr. AvHr. 146bpm.

23st. January
Club run: 5hr. 15mins. AvHr 142bpm.

Club, Sorrento, 3.9 mile TT . First club league race

Wednesday night.

19 starters.


Pulled in second at 7:56.
Got second off scratch.
12 seconds off a clubmate who done 21 odd Ras's. Dave Peelo.
Just below, apparently, 30 mph. 3 turns.
Disc rear..............but does it matter over 4?

Pancake flat I suppose. Up n down over a flyover was about it really.

Came 5th last weekend, Longford,

IVCA.



RACE 2
140 DOYLE Damien 1 10 BRAY WHEELERS
147 GRIMES Brendan 2 9 TULLAMORE CTC
191 DOOLAN Wayne 3 8 IVCA
190 McNAMARA Aidan 4 7 TULLAMORE CTC
119 KILROY Alan 5 6 SORRENTO CC
186 SCULLY Mick 6 5 TULLAMORE CTC
181 MORAN Francis 7 4 IVCA
169 KEHOE Robert 8 3 TEAM SPORTS MED
198 KENNEDY Seamus 9 2 DUNBOYNE CC
196 DONEGAN Patrick 10 2 TULLAMORE CTC
103 BYRNE Hugh 11 5 SUNDRIVE TRACK TEAM
180 MONGEY Eddie 12 2
118 KENNEDY Mick 13 4 DUNBOYNE CC
160 FITZSIMONS Paddy 14 2 DUBLIN WHEELERS
126 McSHARRY John 15 3 NEWRY WHEELERS
101 BARBER Tom 2 GARDA CC
105 CASEY Pat 2 LUCAN CC
107 CLARKE Larry 2 BRAY WHEELERS
111 DARRAGH Sean 2 IVCA
115 HARTE Gerry 2 NAVAN RC
120 LAWLESS John 2 DUBLIN WHEELERS
125 McNAMARA Brian 2 ORWELL DTC
128 HILL Michael 2
144 O'TOOLE Shay 2 Lakeside Wheelers Mullingar
145 NUGENT Jack 2
146 O'BRIEN Damien 2
156 EBBS Arthur 2 ORWELL DTC
164 HENNESSY Mick 2
166 HYNES Victor 2 IVCA
173 LAVERY Tosh 2 DUNBOYNE CC
176 McCANN Ray 2 ORWELL DTC
178 McFEELY Kevin 2 SWORDS CC
188 WALPOLE Leslie 2 LUCAN CRC
189 WALSH Eamon 2 BRAY WHEELERS
197 McINTYRE Kieran 2 DUBLIN WHEELERS
199 HEARY Aidan 2 NAVAN RC
102 BOYLAN JJ dnf 2 IVCA
133 O'MARA Susan dnf 2 DUBLIN WHEELERS
165 HOGAN Liam dnf 2 GARDA CC
182 MORELLI Romano dnf 2 ORWELL DTC

45 miles.



............Very dangerous run in as far as I'm concerned......................about 300 to the finish......................coming off the N4, into a roundabout, 40 odd, guy outside me did a front wheel wobble in about 3 inches of gravel, and I thought.................fcuk, he's off the bike. He stayed up.
I was well down the bunch coming out of the r'about. Too far down I thought, RHS was open, now, after having driven the guts of a 100 miles in the car............"Come in legs", Yeah, I rolled up the RHS and, miraciously, passed about 15 odd sad souls, couldn't believe myself, started looking around in disbelief......................Jasus nearly there.
4 Guys rolled in in front of me.
Happy days.

Kentstown. IVCA DMS. 80k. Last Sunday.
3 laps.
Sorrento guy, Ian Murphy, legs it on the second lap with another guy.
Stays away. Big lead. Good. Within view all the time. I suppose we sat up. Flatish run. Started raining, last lap, talking to Victorcarerra (Boards) about how mucky it was on a wheel, tight. Took the glasses off, still dogs.
Got into the last 3 miles, up front'ish. Was going to get points! So I thought.
Last bend into the run in (about 3/4 mile). Getting tight. Sean Lally on my wheel. Go Go Go.
Two guys were about 200 in front of us. I was behind a good wheel. Bunch on my shoulder. Legs burning. Couldn't pull off. 5th in line.
Burning legs. Couldn't hold for the sprint. Got 26th I think in a bunch of 50.


I've done it before...............I still don't learn. Adrenaline.

Stay in the bunch and kick with the bunch. Much better chance of gettin up.

4 laps of the Newbridge Open circuit last weekend.
Newbridge GP.

Boston Hill was the killer.



About 6/7 Boardsies did the initial race.


Hilly.
4 laps.
Very hard.
We, the Greens, split the Green bunch on the first lap.........................................stayed away till the 3rd lap.
Caught by.....who was the first to fly by but Paul Dolan,...... again.,
I don't know won, but alot of people hung up their pedals on 1/ 2 laps.

Victorcarerra did well in the sprint. Admiration.

Pulled in a 1:03:30 for 40K on Sunday. Apparently. Results not out yet.
New PB. regardless.
Disappointed.


Thought I'd get closer to 2.
C'est la vie.

Planet X wrote: »

Goal: Sub 24 minute 10 mile TT.

Got it tonight. 23:57. New pb.

Club Championship 10 Mile TT. Came 5th.
(4th. got a 23:56. Didn't really want to hear that, anyway.........)

Very draggy course, Kilpeddar (N11) down to Coynes Cross roundabout and back.
Doing a Vets. 10 on Saturday morning on a flattish course so aiming to beat the above.
Happy enough.

Nah, wouldn't be our guys. Virtually everyone drives out.

Planet X wrote: »

Goal: Sub 24 minute 10 mile TT.

Mission Accomplished.

Getting ready for the Vets. kick off.

Second Sunday League race this morning. Transferred from the Kentstown circuit to the same Warrenstown circuit as last weekend. The one with the uphill / bypass finish after 4 laps, 64k.
Was going well considering I hosted a fairly "good, late, wet" curry Friday night, 7 adults. Third lap got a puncture about 5 minutes after the chasing bunch caught us but was up the front end of the mixed bunch. Not to worry, first puncture in 4 years of racing ain't too bad.
Think mc2000 got a puncture a few miles earlier on from me.
Popped around to the finish line to witness the sprints. Bray lad soloed to victory followed by a Tullamore? guy 50 yds back. Next came the main bunch thundering along uphill. Terry Cromer, Sundrive took that gallop I reckon.
Unfortunately a crash about 300 from the finish, Clubmate, George O'Rourke was "bad" lying on the road for a good 5 minutes or so. Hope he's OK.

My Thursday afternoon fix up around Johnnys. Listening to the news all morning at work, weather forecast saying that it'll clear up any minute and burn off, so I wore my short sleeved jersey to work for my afternoon spin.

No, not going to happen. Actually, up at Glencullen Pitch n Putt Club visibility was down to about 70/80 yds. Dense fog. Tempted to turn back. Went down to Johnnys and travelled over to Cruagh Wood. Pea soup, the silence was really nice. Waiting for a big 'Hound of The Baskervilles" to jump out in front of me and rip my neck out. Really bad 'till I "hit" O'Connells Rock, went around a bend and it was crystal clear. Up to the Viewing Point and saw the sun shining out over Dublin below. Brill. Down Stocking and had a brief chat with a Lollipop lady at lights in Ballyboden.

Sun came out a mile from home.

With the extra hour am tempted to go up again tomorrow evening.
"Up again, down Stocking and look out for the Lollipop Lady."

8th.

Eh no.

Mate, Roy Bowden got it.

I pulled up after the Tiernans guy went over his bars on the second lap. I drifted, along with alot of people, to the other side of the road to avoid any collateral from his crash. I hit deep gravel, tried to "gently" steer out of it, and had my handlebars spin round. Had to stop twice to right them, and by then, the bunch was well away. Bars were loose enough for the rest of the race, went around mostly on my own.


Mate commented to me last week that "I seemed to be sitting up too high on the bike" and that I should "drop the bars a tad"
Raised the saddle 3mm and dropped the bars 1cm. Don't ever mess with the bike days before the race. Not tightened enough obviously. Was gutted.

That's four races and two mechanicals. Not good. Was going well in the two I finished aswell.
Ah well, next week.
Going to put in alot of training this week.............and tighten the bars, maybe.

Ah, the flat plains of Kildare.
But the Curragh circuit is the hilliest on the Vets menu.

8:30. Arrived, myself and Roy Bowden. It's bloody freezing!!
Out for a pee, shivering through the gorse looking for a quiet spot.
It was so cold that I wore my Winter Castelli windproof jacket for the race.

Two years ago on this circuit, myself and Victorcarerra and about 5/6 others legged it before the first climb, Boston Hill, a four lap race, and we held out till about 3 miles from the end, until Paul Dolan and possee caught us and spoiled our day! :rolleyes:

Anyway, from the start, about a mile in, I thought that the pace was a "Sunday afternoon spin" pace so went to the front and put the hammer down, like I did 2 yrs, ago. Kept going and heard a few guys behind me. Shared pace, great I thought, that's more like it, otherwise the Whites would be on us on the first lap or so.

We went down a few back roads until we hit Boston Hill, not too long, not too steep, kept it in the big ring up the hill. Good, about 7 of us going. Threw a few glances back down the road......Green group split....into three bunches. Game plan. Up the hill and we kept going. Tullamore guy and myself got to the top on our own and went for it. First lap. Good. Break on. We're away from the small group.

Second lap and we're still holding on. Up Boston again. Glances back. About 200 metres to the chasers. They're not giving up. I have a good idea who'se driving the chasing bunch.


Third lap:
I start to crack on the next drag after Boston telling the Tullamore guy to head on. I'm not taking equal turns on the front but soon get a second wind, downhills, flats, I drive on but cannot hold the Tullamore guys wheel. I buckle and drop back to mix with the chasers, Sean Lally et al. I knew it! Sat at the back not working, couldn't. Dropped from that group of about 6, wasted. Came to the finish and pulled up.

Embarrassed I thought, because it's the first Vets race in 4 yrs. of racing with them that I hadn't finished a race. Not too bad actually, because it seems that about 20 odd didn't do the full circuit. Loads pulled out. Talking to a mate at the finish, up in the scratch group, he pulled out in the first lap!

Ah, Jasus, that was tough. Took a few days to recover. Rarely go on a breakaway. Hard enough.

Passenger who I bring to the races, who has joined the Vets this year, Roy Bowden, took 2nd. behind Paul Dolan. Club mate. Won a race at Batterstown a couple of weeks ago.

That's handy:

Vets Weekend Two Day.

Starter: 3.2k (2 mile TT)

My first Vets June Bank Holiday 2 Day race.

Came tops in the Green group in the TT and, apparently, beat the everyone in the next group aswell, Whites, D's.
5:35secs. / 1.98 miles.