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Challenge the Greenway

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  • 23-02-2012 11:16am
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    martyoo
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    Hi all,

    Just wondering if many of you will be doing this cycle. It's on March 18th.
    Well we’ve teamed up with the Cystic Fibrosis West team to help them raise the much needed funds required to build a
    very specialised day care unit at Mayo General Hospital, specifically for CF sufferers.
    To do this we’ve set ourselves a Challenge to complete the 26 mile world famous Great Western Greenway - a
    picturesque walk/cycle trail which traverses Ireland’s idyllic Atlantic coast between Westport and Achill Island -
    When? March 18th 2012. Want to really make a difference? Think you can take the challenge?....

    Challenge The Greenway - Website
    Challenge The Greenway - Facebook


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    finisklin
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    Nah, not a cyclist. It's for a good cause though.


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    nuac
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    Best of luck with this. Great scenery, especially on the Newport Mulranny leg.

    Suggest you contact the following

    Mayo News Mill St Westport
    Westport Tourism Office Mill St Wesstport
    Anna Connor Walks Officer Mayo Co Council Westport *MOD NOTE: No phone numbers*


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    irishgeo
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    martyoo wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Just wondering if many of you will be doing this cycle. It's on March 18th.



    Challenge The Greenway - Website
    Challenge The Greenway - Facebook

    got a friends wedding the day before so, i doubt it.

    :D


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    yop
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    irishgeo wrote: »
    got a friends wedding the day before so, i doubt it.

    :D

    Its a leisure cycle not the tour de france :)


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    irishgeo
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    yop wrote: »
    Its a leisure cycle not the tour de france :)

    the wedding is in mullranny , perhaps i could get a lift home to achill:D


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    yop
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    Put the bike on the back you lazy fecker! :) I will bring u on the handle bars if I am back on the bike by then. ;) Shud be great crack.


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    Mickeroo
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    irishgeo wrote: »
    got a friends wedding the day before so, i doubt it.

    :D

    Pretty sure I'm going to that same wedding :D


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    martyoo
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    Ah it will be good craic alright. I did Newport to Achill and back a few months ago. The wind on the way down was a nightmare but on the way back the bike nearly cycled itself. :)

    p.s There will be sugary tae en route!


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    TonyStark
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    So, Anyone doing the challenge this Saturday. Myself and a friend have signed up but really don't know what to expect.


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    happyoutscan
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    TonyStark wrote: »
    So, Anyone doing the challenge this Saturday. Myself and a friend have signed up but really don't know what to expect.

    As long as your bundled up and take your time you'll be grand.


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    Kristopherus
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    I thought this event was fixed for last Monday:confused:. By the way next Saturday is promised to be a dog of a day:eek:.


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    Mickeroo
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    Kristopherus wrote: »
    I thought this event was fixed for last Monday:confused:. By the way next Saturday is promised to be a dog of a day:eek:.

    Saw a few cycling by earlier, I bet they wish they left from westport rather than cycling into that wind!


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    TonyStark
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    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Saw a few cycling by earlier, I bet they wish they left from westport rather than cycling into that wind!

    It was grand in the end... when it ended. I think it was a 20-25kmph headwind for all of it.. done a spin to Mulranny before and averaged about 22kmph... today it was 13kmph :-( Had never cycled on the Greenway to Westport...Good fun all the same!


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