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Sean Kelly 160km - Simulated route

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  • 24-07-2008 6:01pm
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    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok, so I was thinking that there is a month to go until the Sean Kelly and its great to get as many miles and climbs onto the legs possible.

    I am pretty bad when it comes to plotting routes and it seems a few people here are handy with their GPS-es and mapmyrides and so forth.

    So, I was wondering if anyone could recommend (or plot) a route that could be used maybe on one of the saturday spins as a Sean Kelly practice route, i.e. fairly rolling up until the last three, leg crushing climbs?

    Something in the 120km range would be what I was thinking.

    I'll have a go myself and post my amateurish, finger painting-style route later on. Perhaps a more seasoned navigator of magellan-caliber would care to try?


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    blorg
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    The 130km I suggested for Saturday might not be too far off that, rolling at the start with the climbs at the end although only the ascent up Lugalla is really steep- throwing Kippure into the mix might help, it's another 250m climb and quite steep.


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    TinyExplosions
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    I'd say doing the Saturday spins are the way forward, there's usually a fair amount of climbing, and there's always someone (Blorg) willing to go further


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    RobAMerc
    Registered Users Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    blorg wrote: »
    The 130km I suggested for Saturday might not be too far off that, rolling at the start with the climbs at the end although only the ascent up Lugalla is really steep- throwing Kippure into the mix might help, it's another 250m climb and quite steep.

    Sweet jebus - if thats comparable to the SK 160 - its the 100 for me !


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    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    that's a good route and will be great training for SK.


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    FrankGrimes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,031 ✭✭✭FrankGrimes


    Is there any way to import that route into MapMyRides.com and/or Garmin software to have a look at the profiles and maybe import it onto an Edge 305 (in a few months when I'm ready for the mentalness of it)?


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    blorg
    Registered Users Posts: 15,989 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Here you go:

    http://www.mapmyride.com/route/ie/dublin/434783365

    The route we did today was pretty good too, we replaced the flat bit at the start with a bit more climbing :D

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055341858&page=5


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