Irish National Championships - Sligo

1bryan

elchupanebrey wrote: »

Moved to the saturday with the juniors so hopefully they can be ran at separate times.

hmm, not good. Very disrespectful to the elite women.

1bryan

circler wrote: »

Brammeier just announced his retirement, so I guess that's him out.

his retirement from cycling and his retirement from being Irish.

68 lost souls

Sad to see the Hillary Hughes biked stolen as she was set ot travel to nationals the other day. Broke into her garage, ripped the controls off the wall, smashed her car rear windscreen to get into the car and take the bike that was inside ready to go.

Please share this in the hope that maybe someone might spot my stolen bike

Between midnight and 7am this morning in Milltown Dublin my garage was broken into and back window of my car smashed in. Out of it was taken this Scott Foil 2013 Team Issue bike (black, white and green), with Fast Forward carbon deep section wheels, a wahoo bike computer and a stages power meter.

I had my car packed to hit the road early and head west for the national championships this week. A very unfortunate thing to happen so soon before champs or ever

- please keep your eyes peeled and if you can share this post I would really appreciate it, the guards said the more it is shared on social media the better the chance of getting the bike back,

Thank you

marvin80

Untitled Folder wrote: »

Anyone know what time the u23 TT is expected to start on Thursday? We have a lad hoping to do it and would love to get off work to go over to support him.

Keep an eye on Eir Og facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Eire-Og-CyclingClub-1609779649269779/

From the website:

http://irishcyclingchamps.info/

Schedule

Time Trial: June 28th

Para Riders & Junior Ladies 1 Lap

All other riders 2 Laps

Sign on opens: 11:00

Sign on closes:

First rider off: 13:31

Mos Eisley

I am thinking of bringing my young lad to the nationals on Sunday. Where would be the best viewing point? Would somewhere on the climb would be a good spot assuming it will be accessible to cars?

Thanks

Taxuser1

Deleted User wrote: »

Hopefully no repeat of what happened the women's race last year.

i think there is always the threat of this issue reoccurring if the women's race isn't run separately to the men's, hopefully not if put off with Juniors. As the nationals course has to be around/under 16km an average speeds by the men 10kms per hour quicker than the ladies may have them caught within their race time of around 2-2.5 hours. even in ras na mban full of internationals, the average speeds for the flatter stages was under 37 kmph, in the men's nationals last year, first 2 hours in the peloton was just under 44 kmph on a lumpy circuit.

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Taxuser1 wrote: »

i think there is always the threat of this issue reoccurring if the women's race isn't run separately to the men's, hopefully not if put off with Juniors. As the nationals course has to be around/under 16km an average speeds by the men 10kms per hour quicker than the ladies may have them caught within their race time of around 2-2.5 hours. even in ras na mban full of internationals, the average speeds for the flatter stages was under 37 kmph, in the men's nationals last year, first 2 hours in the peloton was just under 44 kmph on a lumpy circuit.

Does the nationals course have to have a max distance? A bigger loop and better timing would solve the problem.

Thud

1bryan wrote: »

How's his form though? He dropped out of the giro with fatigue. Even if he's recovered, he hasn't raced in so long. In saying that, if he can respond to whatever early action takes place and is still in the reckoning towards the latter part of the race, his experience could well see him win it (though I doubt there's a handy win there for anyone this year).

Nico not in BMC Tour team

http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/bmc-racing-announce-riders-will-help-richie-porte-try-win-tour-de-france-384278

Was that in his plans or was he aiming for Vuelta?

godtabh

Thud wrote: »

Nico not in BMC Tour team

http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/bmc-racing-announce-riders-will-help-richie-porte-try-win-tour-de-france-384278

Was that in his plans or was he aiming for Vuelta?

I think that was always on the cards after the Giro start. I think I remember that he said it was a later call up to the Giro and his plans would then shift to the Vuelta after that.

Taxuser1

well he just did this on the Poggio

https://www.strava.com/activities/1665430749/segments/41745115615

bang in form if you ask me! that's a difficult uphill climb.

Paul_Mc1988

800watts for over a minute....ouch

ednwireland

Mos Eisley wrote: »

I am thinking of bringing my young lad to the nationals on Sunday. Where would be the best viewing point? Would somewhere on the climb would be a good spot assuming it will be accessible to cars?

Thanks

there is a car park and a pull in at the top of hungry rock (called hawks rock on google unless i have my bearings completely wrong.)
https://www.google.com/maps/search/hungry+rock+sligo/@54.1943798,-8.5842274,1136m/data=!3m1!1e3

Takca

ednwireland wrote: »

there is a car park and a pull in at the top of hungry rock (called hawks rock on google unless i have my bearings completely wrong.)
https://www.google.com/maps/search/hungry+rock+sligo/@54.1943798,-8.5842274,1136m/data=!3m1!1e3

Thats the carpark alright, it isn't very big so you may want to be early incase others have the same idea

MPFGLB

Taxuser1 wrote: »

well he just did this on the Poggio

https://www.strava.com/activities/1665430749/segments/41745115615

bang in form if you ask me! that's a difficult uphill climb.

Nico over trained for the Giro and was cocked from the off and then with personal issues added to the mix had to retire after 2 weeks racing exhausted


Its a pity but he has been caught from overtraining before in the past but the good thing is he usually comes back stronger after a rest

But he was never up to ride the Tour this year . Hopefully he can have form for the Vuelta and gets to ride that GT as the course really suit him this year

neris

Good interview with Sam Bennett about the nationals on this weeks Cycling Podcast

circler

TT

Elite Women:

1. Kelly Murphy
2. Eileen Burns
3. Eve McCrystal

Elite Men:

1. Ryan Mullen
2. Marcus Christie
3. Paul Kennedy

Source: https://twitter.com/IreCyclingFed/status/1012376057872297984

circler

https://twitter.com/IreCyclingFed/status/1012383098368032768

There doesn't appear to be an official Twitter account for this years nats

Farloo

What's the name of podcast?

Farloo

Farloo wrote: »

What's the name of podcast?

https://thecyclingpodcast.com/podcast/a-pre-tour-de-france-ramble-part-one-episode-22

ednwireland

I hope i have this right but the start/sign on is in collooney and the finish is in coolaney just in case anyone doesnt realise !

Eamonnator

ednwireland wrote: »

I hope i have this right but the start/sign on is in collooney and the finish is in coolaney just in case anyone doesnt realise !

Is that a suburb of Sligo?

retalivity

Eamonnator wrote: »

Is that a suburb of Sligo?

Its a town 10 mins out on the galway road. Coolaney is further away again

Mos Eisley

ednwireland wrote: »

there is a car park and a pull in at the top of hungry rock (called hawks rock on google unless i have my bearings completely wrong.)
https://www.google.com/maps/search/hungry+rock+sligo/@54.1943798,-8.5842274,1136m/data=!3m1!1e3

Thanks for that

buffalo

circler wrote: »

There doesn't appear to be an official Twitter account for this years nats

It's a massive undertaking for a club to run the champs. Social media is usually near the bottom of the list of priorities.

Takca

buffalo wrote: »

It's a massive undertaking for a club to run the champs. Social media is usually near the bottom of the list of priorities.

The club running it are posting updates on their facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Eire-Og-CyclingClub-1609779649269779/posts/?ref=page_internal

marvin80

buffalo wrote: »

It's a massive undertaking for a club to run the champs. Social media is usually near the bottom of the list of priorities.

The website they have is handy for info: http://irishcyclingchamps.info/

Be good if it was used as the website for it every year.

Inquitus

Eve McCrystal wins the Women's Elite from a small breakway group sprint.
Adam Ward wins the Junior Men's in a two up sprint from a small breakway group.

Lusk_Doyle

Fair play to Mrs Raam for taking part this year.

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Inquitus wrote: »

Eve McCrystal wins the Women's Elite from a small breakway group sprint.
Adam Ward wins the Junior Men's in a two up sprint from a small breakway group.

Oh awesome! are the full results out somewhere?
Anyone have the story of the race?

magicbastarder

http://www.stickybottle.com/races-results/eve-mccrystal-cycling-champion/

that's taken at the finale, but far enough away that you don't get to see anything except the reaction.