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paddy-martin-randonee

  • 09-07-2015 8:28am
    #1
    ted1
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    Anyone doing this?

    The climb in the 90km looks severe, http://www.braywheelers.com/paddy-martin-randonee/

    Has anybody done the 90km or 120 route? how tough are they? particularly the 90km.

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  • #2
    tonytiger81
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    Think the Martin Codyre cycle starts from Bray on Sunday and does a similar distance and route. I'm debating which one to do. Be interesting to know which will be busier as I'm only back in the saddle after years away and would rather not get left behind :)


  • #3
    Plastik
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    They're very similar routes really and the additional 30km that you do for the 120 is not very taxing with a long easy flowing descent from Rathdrum to Woodenbridge, a rolling/flat road to Aughrim and only a small drag leaving Aughrim before you're back onto the 90km route again.

    The main climbs on both routes are the same. You climb from Ashford up to Moneystown (3.5km @ 3.5%). You climb the Shay Elliott out of Glenmalure (3km @ 8%). The same direction that the Shay Elliott Memorial races over it earlier in the year. Great climb. Steep ramp at the bottom which once you get over you can settle into a nice rhythm to the top. And you have a the lumpy road back from Laragh via Lough Dan to Roundwood.

    The Paddy Martin Randonée isn't a mass start event. Similar to the Wicklow200 and ROK, you sign on and you're free to his the road whenever you like. There were about 150 signed on last year I think. There will be a group of Bray Wheelers aiming to average 22-25kph leaving from the clubhouse at about 9.15 for the 120 and there will likely be another group from the club doing the 120 at a faster pace leaving closer to 10.

    90km has about 1300m climbing, the 120 about 1500m.


  • #4
    ted1
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    Sounds like i'll do the 90km. while the extra 30km mightn't be to taxing, it'll take another hour and I'm on Dad duty in the afternoon.

    If i have any energy left i can do the one on the Sunday too. :)

    The 3km @ 8% sounds liek hard work : http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/08/01/a-handy-guide-to-climbing-grades/


  • #5
    wanderer 22
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    Looks good, I think I'll do the 90k - cycle there and back will give me close to 140k for the day


  • #6
    easygoing39
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    Anyone do this and have a ride report to post?
    Would have loved to have ridden it myself.


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