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tunney

The accounts that I have heard of this say that this was a total draft fest. Farcical levels of drafting. Anyone else to confirm/deny this?

pgibbo

tunney wrote: »

The accounts that I have heard of this say that this was a total draft fest. Farcical levels of drafting. Anyone else to confirm/deny this?

If you read back a few posts you will see that both Rodney & Bryan pointed this out. Sounds like it was nuts.

rodneyr1981

tunney wrote:

The accounts that I have heard of this say that this was a total draft fest. Farcical levels of drafting. Anyone else to confirm/deny this?

Confirm. Groups making no effort. Spent a large portion of first 40km getting caught and breaking away from one particular train. At one stage they were calling out potholes like a Sunday spin!! Any shouting I did landed on def ears.
Don't want to sound like a negative Ned. Enjoyed race other than this.

tunney

pgibbo wrote: »

If you read back a few posts you will see that both Rodney & Bryan pointed this out. Sounds like it was nuts.

Apologies, so reports confirmed. A totally facial draft fest, that was a NC and NS and really by all accounts has yielded totally inaccurate results due to widespread cheating and non-enforcement of rules.

But hey the NC and NS are important........

rodneyr1981

tunney wrote:

But devils advocate - it wasn't a race then. If you were riding legal but no one else was it wasn't really a race. Just a mickey swinging exercise (not suggesting by you)

To say nobody else wasn't riding fair isn't true as there was loads of honest too but look I had my own targets splits wise and I ain't going to be podiuming so ain't going to loose sleep over it.

bryangiggsy

It was more noticeable on Sunday because of the one wave start..(too many people on the bike course at same time) the fast flat course (less oppurtunities for folk to get dropped) and the complete non existence of policing. If they had 5 motorbikes policing 15-20k of road the groups would have been broken up.
Lads spinning 200 watts sitting on the wheel of other pushing 280. It was comical
I saw 1 motorbike official the whole 90k. I got great pleasure in seeing 1 guy in a highly visible yellow cycling jersey who must have sat on the back of a group and wheel for 40k get blown out with 20k to go.
I would like to do the race again if it was policied properly but for €145 it definitely was not worth the cash and i would not sign up at this price again. the nutrition on the course was a joke....and they ran out of coke after lap 2 of the run.

tunney

bryangiggsy wrote: »

It was more noticeable on Sunday because of the one wave start..(too many people on the bike course at same time) the fast flat course (less oppurtunities for folk to get dropped) and the complete non existence of policing. If they had 5 motorbikes policing 15-20k of road the groups would have been broken up.
Lads spinning 200 watts sitting on the wheel of other pushing 280. It was comical
I saw 1 motorbike official the whole 90k. I got great pleasure in seeing 1 guy in a highly visible yellow cycling jersey who must have sat on the back of a group and wheel for 40k get blown out with 20k to go.
I would like to do the race again if it was policied properly but for €145 it definitely was not worth the cash and i would not sign up at this price again. the nutrition on the course was a joke....and they ran out of coke after lap 2 of the run.

doesn't bode well for challenge galway............

Podge83

tunney wrote: »

The accounts that I have heard of this say that this was a total draft fest. Farcical levels of drafting. Anyone else to confirm/deny this?

Interesting thing about the drafting on Sunday was that in 90k I saw one Bike marshall in a race where marshalling should have been easier (although waves would have helped). At Dunmore east where marshalling was impossible due to the amount of bikes on the road I saw several in 20k, (although little action taken).