Cycling Ireland 2024 road calendar

The leinster champs which was 1st September has dropped off the calendar, anyone know if it is cancelled?

It was listed as Dublin so looks like it was never going to be traders cup in the first place and possibly hoping to get another club to host?

Best of luck getting it off the ground this late.

Locally the Tipp Championships didn’t take place this year due to delay after delay or little contact to queries sent to CI for approval, a very frustrating process seemingly.

They do have to be same weekend for about past 5 years or so.

So no Leinster championships? I'd be spit out the back pretty quick but was gonna give it a go.

Does anyone have an idea how many races were cancelled this year? Seems to have increased significantly if I’m not mistaken.

No and I should have. I probably peaked around end of April / start of May and I was completely burned out post ras (and didn’t recognise it). Had enough residual fitness to do ok until the start of July but then I essentially needed to take a month off completely.

Felt really good at the Newry 3 day until I blew the lights out of nowhere on stage 2 (dunno what I was expecting given the lack of training). I was training hard since August 2023 so something had to give it’s just not ideal I had to take an off season around now

Enjoying being back on the bike again now even if the fitness wasn’t where it was. I’ll be going to Denmark for the experience and will prob do L’etape in Kerry but my race season is done. Lessons learned for next year but all in all I’ve achieved more this year than I ever thought possible so I can’t not be happy 😃

He did I’m just a stubborn bollox 😂

Cyclocross season around the corner...

You can take it that you are A3 now, just speaks to comms on the day beforehand.

From what I've seen, most of the complaints are existing riders getting C1! C3 races are doable on a LC iirc? If your club has an open race, that was always doable on a LC.

LC can race maybe 2/3 open races but that hasn’t been clarified yet.

I’ve been classed C2 as expected but appealed for C3 on age (48) and one or two other factors.
One drawback for C3 is the short races <70km which to be honest doesn’t warrant a full winter of hard slog. C2 though will be super competitive and goals like a top 10 or a race win will be beyond me for 2025 sadly.

Also first years jnrs are C3 which being frank is a terrible decision. An option for C2 should be there for those who possess ability beyond or believe they have. Early C3 races will be laughable.

There is some high class first years juniors coming through that will just ride away from the vast majority of C3 lads. Races will be all over the road in March and April.

I went from A4 to A3 this year and I'm in C2 next year. I have mixed feelings about it to be honest.

In any of the handicap races this year I was getting blown out by the A2's, in A3 only I was there or thereabouts, caution probably kept me out of the sprints. My A4 points all came from early moves, again out of caution.

A lot of A3 seem to have gone to C2 and maybe the stronger A2 have gone to C1 making it doable. I have a big winter ahead of me I think if I want to be up there.

That said, I'd have a big winter if I wanted to be doing anything in A3 either way maybe.

I set a goal to get out of A4 this year so achieved that. I'm not sure I'll be setting any such goals this year. This was my first year open racing with only the club league done before that after coming from more of a leisure background.

I’ve no issue with the C3 cat for first year juniors, the point I wanted to make was the option of C2 for those lads who clearly have ability beyond open racing in Ireland.