Team Boards.ie/Wheelworxs Race Around Ireland from September 14 2010

Hermy

TS04 should be coming up soon at the current pace.

ednwireland

still v windy up here keep it up lads

Hermy

Team Renegade came through TS04 at 08:44.

shaungil

From what I can gather they will be going in pairs with stints of each pair for a few hours. So Rider A starts bin car C&D go up the road in camper and take over in afew hours. Riders A&B then alternate every half hour or hour.

Aidan started and Raam was in civvies so I reckon he was taking over later about 1-ish I think.

Looked great was very jealous last night. If a little cold.

penexpers

Just reading the facebook page there, apparently one of the teams is alternating riders every 10 minutes, which sounds a bit crazy.

Chips Lovell

Between this and the Vuelta time trial, it's going to be an interesting day.

Hermy

I think it's every ten kilometres. A lot of changing though even at that.

And still no mention of Team Boards having come through TS04.

Hermy

Through TS04 at 09:06!

shaungil

Thru at 9.06. so 22 mins behind. Not sure if this takes account of the 5 min start so could be 17mins behind. so they're now heading south into the horrible wind so the real funs begins.

The 10 min changeover can work but you need to have your changeovers spot on. In theory you can blast for 10 mins then 10 mins rest and then blast again. In practice not as straightforward as you have to find a place to pull over and do change over and no point in doing it half way up a steep hill (or maybe there is) also if it's lashing rain you are changing clothes a lot as you cannot sit in wet gear cos you're wasting energy. Last year we planned 1/2 hour changeovers during day and hour long at night. when we lost a rider we had to change tactics hugely and were doing much longer solo stints (up to 5 hours on 2 nights for me).

There's no hard and fast rules and it's up to the crew to decide which tactics work best for terrain riders abilities riders form and stages of the races.

RobFowl

shaungil wrote: »

Thru at 9.06. so 22 mins behind. Not sure if this takes account of the 5 min start so could be 17mins behind. so they're now heading south into the horrible wind so the real funs begins.

The 10 min changeover can work but you need to have your changeovers spot on. In theory you can blast for 10 mins then 10 mins rest and then blast again. In practice not as straightforward as you have to find a place to pull over and do change over and no point in doing it half way up a steep hill (or maybe there is) also if it's lashing rain you are changing clothes a lot as you cannot sit in wet gear cos you're wasting energy. Last year we planned 1/2 hour changeovers during day and hour long at night. when we lost a rider we had to change tactics hugely and were doing much longer solo stints (up to 5 hours on 2 nights for me).

There's no hard and fast rules and it's up to the crew to decide which tactics work best for terrain riders abilities riders form and stages of the races.

Did the feeling in your foot ever come back ????

Beasty

shaungil wrote: »

From what I can gather they will be going in pairs with stints of each pair for a few hours. So Rider A starts bin car C&D go up the road in camper and take over in afew hours. Riders A&B then alternate every half hour or hour.

Aidan started and Raam was in civvies so I reckon he was taking over later about 1-ish I think.

Looked great was very jealous last night. If a little cold.

Did you double up at all last year shaungil? I realise you were quickly down to 3 men, and so it may have been impractical.

Do you know if they are just doing this for the (head) windy stretches, or is this the tactic for most of the race (can't see any point in doing it in the hills though)?

They're still averaging nearly 29kph despite the conditions, and appear quite a bit faster than both 8-person teams - we may have missed a trick here guys - another 4 of us could have joined up, each done 5 minute stints, then spent time in the campervan "recovering", and taking all the glory at the end:D

manwithaplan

The cumulative times at TS04 actually show them 27 minutes down. This would suggest that they started 5 minutes before Renegade Cycling as they are only 22 minutes behind on the road. That is odd as Renegade are number 401 and our lot are number 402.

Beasty

shaungil wrote: »

when we lost a rider we had to change tactics hugely

Just as a matter of interest, did he ever turn up, or should the boards crew be on the lookout for some poor bloke on a bike, abandoned by his team, and still going round in circles in the west of the country because of some dodgy Garmin?

shaungil

They started 5 mins behind. My toe is okay now but does numb it quicker than the rest of my foot.

Our 4th rider got the train home from sligo and I see him (as have you Beasty) on a regular basis. At the time I wanted to strand him in the middle of nowhere but I'm very forgiving.;)

We did double but it ended up the other two lads for some reason. I think it might have been so the lads in the car wouldn't have to listen to me. Reading Roches diary about trying to do as little as possible was not possible for me. I was hyper for all three days and the crew chief wanted to kill me.

Beasty

manwithaplan wrote: »

The cumulative times at TS04 actually show them 27 minutes down. This would suggest that they started 5 minutes before Renegade Cycling as they are only 22 minutes behind on the road. That is odd as Renegade are number 401 and our lot are number 402.

Based on their time through the checkpoint, and shaungil's confirmation they started 5 mins later (at 8.05 I presume) they appear to be 17 mins down.

It will be interesting to know if Renegade Cycling are the ones doing the short shifts

Hermy

Beasty wrote: »

It will be interesting to know if Renegade Cycling are the ones doing the short shifts

I had assumed this was the team people wear referring to.
From Facebook:

Team Atlanta depart TS03 at 06.18 riders are in good form and say that they change every 10km will be interesting to see how this tactic pays off as the race goes on.

Lumen

Wind is bad.

Over and out.

Hermy

Lumen wrote: »

Wind is bad.

Upset tummy?
Poor Caroline.:p

Beasty

Latest tweets

Raam:

"Going out for a short cycle. Managed to avoid Mamore Gap. Blowing a bloody gale here."

team:

"Peter doing well" - picture

Beasty

Team Renegade through checkpoint TS5 at 12.08 - hopefully the guys will be through there by now also

shaungil

boards 12.38 so 25 mins behind.

shaungil

Team RPM only 2 mins back in third. All ex-rowers but looked handy to me when I saw them last night. This has the making of a good race which will push the lads even harder. Great stuff.

manwithaplan

The website has corrected the gap between Team Renegade and the boards lads at TS05 - deducting 5 mins rather than adding it on - but I can't see how they arrived at the Team RPM time. If they passed the time station 21 mins after boards, they should be 16 mins down (having started 5 mins later) rather than only 2.

I'm know I'm too anal about this - I'm sure it will all work out in the end. It shows how close it is when a few minutes over a 2000 km-plus race has any chance of making a difference.

Chips Lovell

Has anyone got a helicopter?

Beasty

el tonto wrote: »

Has anyone got a helicopter?

It's on the need/must have list, but the new wheels are currently ahead of it, so I'm afraid I can't help on this one

LDB

shaungil wrote: »

From what I can gather they will be going in pairs with stints of each pair for a few hours. So Rider A starts bin car C&D go up the road in camper and take over in afew hours. Riders A&B then alternate every half hour or hour.

Aidan started and Raam was in civvies so I reckon he was taking over later about 1-ish I think.

Looked great was very jealous last night. If a little cold.

Yeah they are splitting into 2 teams of 2. Aidan + Kevin and Peter + Tom. Each team will ride a 6 or 4 hour shift depending on the time of the day and the riders will alternate during the shift every hour or so. This way the riders off shift will have maximum time to eat and sleep. The weather conditions sound just terrible at the moment but the ave. speed is amazing! I was there to see them off last night, it was very exciting.

godihatedehills

Lazarus!! Welcome back LDB

LDB

godihatedehills wrote: »

Lazarus!! Welcome back LDB

LOL 'working' from home so can actually access the website!

jimm

Cycled out to Navan with The tax man to see the start. Hope the knee is feeling better today tax man (I seem to be saying this every time I see you!!!).

Was mistaken for a team member at one stage and almost got interviewed, which was flattering.

Good to meet you too sy, pity about the camera. Best of luck to the team/support crew, you're in for a savage few days ahead, keep the spirits up.

Will post up a few photos later.

BTW, I lost my cycling glasses there, if anyone has them give me a shout. Only a cheap Decathlon pair so no huge loss.

jimm

Beasty wrote: »

Beasty prediction:

Wayne will score at the moment you set off this evening:D

What's her name?

Bunnyhopper

Renegade Cycling reached TS6 (Sligo) at 1607h, Wheelworx/Boards.ie reached it at 1628h. That's a gap on the road of 21 minutes, and (I think) a lead for Renegade of 16 minutes.

petethedrummer

Jaysus, hard to believe they're in Sligo already.

Go n'éirí an bóthar leo.

Chips Lovell

Bunnyhopper wrote: »

Renegade Cycling reached TS6 (Sligo) at 1607h, Wheelworx/Boards.ie reached it at 1628h. That's a gap on the road of 21 minutes, and (I think) a lead for Renegade of 16 minutes.

Good work by the Boardsies. Looks like they've pulled a few minutes back.

shaungil

21 mins up on 3rd place.

Disclaimer alert we had a few spurious time gaps last year where there were mistakes made and wrong times went up on he site. Happened people got tired calling in at stations.

jimm

Some photos of start. Quality not great, fading light, etc.

Inquitus

Gap up to 19mins at the latest checkpoint.

Beasty

Bribery will get you everywhere

Caroline has been giving away the fancies!!

Beasty

A few dodgy characters in these:

Beasty

Renegade were through TS8 at 23.38, having covered 806.3km in 27hrs 38mins and keeping up an average speed of 29.1kph

Going to have to stay up until the Boards team time goes up now!

Beasty

No direct comparison between the first 2 as they are through different checkpoints at present

Renegade are through TS10 in 34h 37mins - average 29.61kph
Wheelworx/Boards TS9 at 3.59 this morning, which I work out to be 31h 54mins, although the website is showing 24hr mins (I suspect that is an earlier checkpoint time) - average 28.25kph

RPM are 46 mins down on Boards

Keep it going guys - soon be half-way

AstraMonti

They are flying! Way to go guys! Keep it up! I wish they could hear me though :rolleyes:

lescol

Am gutted that I won't be able to see the team in Kerry today, have had to go to Dublin. This race is more exciting than the tDF! So come on lads there's tons of support for you!

Passed a solo rider near Firies about 8.30 last night, couldn't see who it was.

Beasty

Through TS10 in 36h 38m - 1,030.6km at 28.1kph
Renegade seem to have had a good night, and are now 1h 51m ahead of them

Beasty

Team RPM seem to be getting pretty close - only 12 mins down at the last checkpoint

Looks like they will be overtaking the last solo rider any time.

Chips Lovell

Videos from the team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTTvwpKZSeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl2YWGQwkg

Beasty

Tweet, from about an hour ago

"Somewhere in Clare 35km past Ennis. Waiting for keV and Aidan to come back to base for a changeover. The boys are wrecked & so is the crew"

Hermy

Team Boards went through TS11 at 12:01.

Vélo

This is definitely more exciting than any other race!

Well done to all.

TomMc

Unusual that the 1hr 51min gap remains exactly the same after stage into Limerick as it was into Kilkee.

The overall (website listed) times to date for both teams 401 & 402 do not tally.

I'm playing Devil's Advocate here ... Go Renegade Go!:D

penexpers

Oh no!

On our way to Killarney. Messed up a bit due to lack of sleep. Looks like we might have lost our 2nd position as a result. This is tough!