Wicklow 200 - 13th June 2010

Blowfish

Raam wrote: »

Ride faster

True, plus from looking at it, I've an extra ~25km trip each way to get to/from it.

Caroline_ie

Ah feck i was in a meeting will never have a low number now ...

mfdc

God damn it... cycling back from Greystones afterwards is going to suck, especially if the weather is bad UCD and the Wicklow 250 last year wasn't too bad, but an extra 40k on top of that will be a killer.

e: Ah hell and I've just realised that it means getting up at 4am to cycle down... bring back UCD

interested

Ive no idea regarding reasoning behind the change of start/finish and would have thought the route almost identical to last year apart from the initial 15 km and final 30 or 40.

I would reckon that the start and more specifically the finish in Greystones will be safer than trundling down through stepaside and in/around dundrum. Traffic on the newcastle/kilcoole road to Greystones should be non-existent as opposed to Enniskerry village on a sunday afternoon in June.

Chips Lovell

Start/finish in Greystones mean it will be more like the Wicklow 250 for me.

blorg

Missed that, start in Greystones is a pain in the neck to be honest.

Caroline_ie

blorg wrote: »

Missed that, start in Greystones is a pain in the neck to be honest.

Maybe the burgers and chips will be nicer ?

Beasty

Blowfish wrote: »

Is it just me or is there nowhere near as much climbing as last year? Maybe I'm missing something, but even as a newbie I'm kind of wishing it was a bit tougher.

Total ascent per Mapmyride was 1,815m in 2009 and will be 1,678m in 2010, an overall reduction of 7.5%
An extra 1.52km distance to make up for it though:)

Blowfish

Last time I was down in Greystones, there was an Asian place that did an all you can eat buffet on Sunday afternoons for €10. Wonder what they'd think of several hundred people in Lycra descending on them.

Beasty wrote: »

Total ascent per Mapmyride was 1,815m in 2009 and will be 1,678m in 2010, an overall reduction of 7.5%
An extra 1.52km distance to make up for it though:)

Ah ok, must have misremembered. I thought it was about 2,300m last year.

Lumen

Blowfish wrote: »

Ah ok, must have misremembered. I thought it was about 2,300m last year.

Garmin meters, probably.

Beasty

Blowfish wrote: »

Ah ok, must have misremembered. I thought it was about 2,300m last year.

It probably was, but Mapmyride significantly understates it (that's why I compared both of their figures)

Hopefully 665 participants will not have registered before me this time:)

blorg

Blowfish wrote: »

Ah ok, must have misremembered. I thought it was about 2,300m last year.

Depends on how you measure it; Garmins would put it substantially higher as they count every little undulation while MMR averages it out more.

72hundred

Greystones start. A little inconvenient, I really don't fancy the Wicklow 300 (including cycle from C'knock)!

fletch

Thank God for my THULE 591 Pro Ride Roof Carrier that's all I'm saying

Beasty

fletch wrote: »

Thank God for my THULE 591 Pro Ride Roof Carrier that's all I'm saying

Thank God for my big boot that's all I'm saying:)

ROK ON

Disappointed that main part of route is unchanged.
Would like to see Long Hill, Lugalla, Sally Gap, Wicklow Gap, SM & SE then Sally gap from Laragh down to Kippure Holiday camp and up the back of Kippure.
Btw my fantasy WW200 would start at bottom of stocking lane.

MadHatter

I won't be doing it this time, heading off on holidays on Fri 11th.

So if anybody wants to borrow a couple of Thule Outride bike carriers for the trek to Greystones you are more than welcome

dario28

Any-one got link to blogs on the day, do ya stop at shops along the way for munch

Training plans

General time plan for someone who is sub 85 min half marathon fit - and will be first big bike event

Anything else I should need to know

When will it sell out

Blowfish

dario28 wrote: »

Any-one got link to blogs on the day, do ya stop at shops along the way for munch

Training plans

General time plan for someone who is sub 85 min half marathon fit - and will be first big bike event

Anything else I should need to know

When will it sell out

Last years thread. Lot's of stuff in there, most of it wont have changed.

Lumen

dario28 wrote: »

General time plan for someone who is sub 85 min half marathon fit - and will be first big bike event

Get a few 100km spins in beforehand, you'll be fine. Sub-8 hours no problem with that level of fitness.

I can run that fast too. For about a minute.

blorg

ROK ON wrote: »

Disappointed that main part of route is unchanged.
Would like to see Long Hill, Lugalla, Sally Gap, Wicklow Gap, SM & SE then Sally gap from Laragh down to Kippure Holiday camp and up the back of Kippure.
Btw my fantasy WW200 would start at bottom of stocking lane.

That is vaguely similar to the Boards 200 we did last year. The Wicklow 200 is a mass participation event you must remember, they can't make it too insanely difficult.

The main issue I would have if they are starting it in Greystones (which I consider to be nuts) is that starting 20km south of UCD they could at least extend the route further south around climbs we are not so familiar with.

el tel

Not having done this event before I was all set for this starting at UCD this year. Back to the drawing board with travel & accomodation arrangements now! Might an advance Boardsie meet somewhere in Dublin be on the cards?

jag con

I have just signed up dont care where it starts or finishes i just want to do it and have started my training plan looking forward to it now

Caroline_ie

Mmmm another thread gave me an idea.... Canine powered WW200 ...

irishmotorist

I didn't see anywhere on the site - where are the food stops this time? I still have a sour taste in my mouth from the Donard stop last year and if it's there again, I'll have to seriously consider if I'm going to go in for it.

briano

Donard and Rathdrum it says, Food in Donard isn't up to much?

penexpers

Maybe they moved it to Greystones as a way to control numbers?

niceonetom

briano wrote: »

Donard and Rathdrum it says, Food in Donard isn't up to much?

Not the quality that was really the issue last year, just the huge queues. A 45 minute wait for a sambo and cuppa is a chore. It certainly takes any sense of momentum out of the ride and it can take a long time to get the blood flowing again.

I'd be tempted to do this guerilla style this year. Do the route, but not register and simply provide for ourselves with food. Hopefully by the time June comes around I'll be in the kind of shape where I can give it a good effort for the whole course, and will be comfortable enough with only stopping to refill bidons and pockets.

Lumen

Lumen wrote: »

See, 3 into 1 does go

threads merged

Bah.

Signed up as soon as I saw the e-mail (funnily enough, was on the website earlier today). Didn't see the Greystones start at first. That'll suck.

Lumen

Dónal wrote: »

Bah

Anyone else? :pac:

tomc

ROK ON wrote: »

Btw my fantasy WW200 would start at bottom of stocking lane.

Here....here...........lets start a petition.:)

Vélo

tomc wrote: »

Here.Hear...here..Hear.........lets start a petition.:)

Fixed that for you.

I used to make the same mistake

irishmotorist

briano wrote: »

Donard and Rathdrum it says, Food in Donard isn't up to much?

Sorry to question this, but I still can't see that on the page - either in text or on the maps. Was it definitely not an old edition of the WW200 that you're referring to?

fenris

Signed up!

This could be a good first run for Tiny's proposed cargo bike/mobile cake&caffeine stop!

c0rk3r

Well this is going to be a massive pain in the ass. For me the greystones start adds 30km each way so its really a wicklow 260 or maybe i could just do the 100 and convert that to 160km but its just not the same. I hope the organizers can get in touch with the dart service and come to a once of agreement allowing bikes on, just 1 day or between certain hours.

I know on the weekends there used to be a special dart, no doubt due to demand that ran from connolly station to Dun Laoghaire. Cant the same be done for this one day. Or there was one occasion, well two when i was allowed bring my bike on the dart. One was when i had a flat tyre, they told me to remove both wheels in essence making the bike "luggage". The second was something similar, they wouldn't allow me bring the bike on the dart but there was a train that runs on Sundays from Wexford to connolly that stops of at Dun Laoghaire which they allowed me bring the bike on. I hope something could be arranged

These are just ideas at the moment nothing to start panicking about now. Who knows i may have learned to drive by then (disgusting as that sounds)

briano

irishmotorist wrote: »

Sorry to question this, but I still can't see that on the page - either in text or on the maps. Was it definitely not an old edition of the WW200 that you're referring to?

No worries, it's on the entry page

http://www.wicklow200.ie/2010onlineentry.php wrote:

The 2010 Wicklow 200 - Sunday June 13th 2010
On-line Entry page

Use this page to enter the 2010 Wicklow 200 Classic (200km) or the shorter
Wicklow Challenge, and to pay the entry fee online.
Both will take place on Sunday 13th June 2010, starting and ending at the
Shoreline Leisure Centre, Greystones, County Wicklow.

The entry fee is 42.00 Euro. The entry fee includes your certificate, medal, refreshments at Donard (Wicklow 200 only) and Rathdrum, Water stations on the route,and refreshments at Shoreline Leisure Centre when you finish, use of changing and shower facilities at the start/finish, and various support services during the event.

Lumen

40km from my house to Greystones.

At this stage, with 193 days to go, the "Wicklow 280" sounds like a great idea.

Eoin D

0 km from my house to Greystones. Yeeeeow, might have to sign up

lafors

Will ye all relax with the "Feckin Greystones" start point
I'm sure there'll be plenty of boardsies driving to the start line who'll offer lifts to lads nearby them. Plus you've got 193 days, 11 hours, 58 minutes, 43 seconds to learn how to drive/arrange to get there

Beasty

Cheer up guys - at least it's starting in Wicklow next year. Another 8km or so and it would even be 200km long:)

EDIT - maybe we should ask them to start the Ring Of Kerry in Dublin next year to make up for this.

jwshooter

well it is called the wicklow 200

why should it start in the dublin city ,is there not a dart going to greystones.

no dart or public transport for us country boys, its a hour and twenty mins drive from me.

petethedrummer

So now I have to not go to Greystones instead of not going to UCD.

sy

Blowfish wrote: »

Is it just me or is there nowhere near as much climbing as last year? Maybe I'm missing something, but even as a newbie I'm kind of wishing it was a bit tougher.

Just like the TDF over the past 20 years, shorter and easier. This young generation are just not tough enough :rolleyes:

blorg

Esroh wrote: »

Is the real problem with W200 not that its been run by the Vet Assoc.
These are hardened Knights of the Road who would ride 200km on a 500ml Water bottle and a Banana. This is what they always did
You can see them thinking the rest of us should HTFU and do it on a few mars bars and a sambo.

That's called audax and it costs a fiver.

penexpers

c0rk3r wrote: »

I know on the weekends there used to be a special dart, no doubt due to demand that ran from connolly station to Dun Laoghaire. Cant the same be done for this one day.

There will be no trains operating at 6am on a Sunday morning.

Lumen

penexpers wrote: »

There will be no trains operating at 6am on a Sunday morning.

All aboard the El Tonto Train!

ROK ON

@Lumen. I presume I can get a lift from you again next year. This time I will be on time and promise ti actually serve up a tasty nutritious breakfast.

irishmotorist

briano wrote: »

No worries, it's on the entry page

Oky doky - thanks for that. I reckon I went as far as the page before that but didn't want to sign up without the full information.

uberwolf

tempted. I actually want to do this.

Rules would be no food stops (newsagents for fresh drinks and doughnuts would be allowed)

Nietzschean

well the route looks boring, might aswell have a decent hammer fest down the N11 for warm up

Signed up regardless, but less than enthusiastic i must admit...still marmotte warm up it is


quite OT, but have most planning on doing that booked stuff for it yet?