The first round of the Dick O’Brien Leisure League took place on 14th January with a good turn out of riders setting off from Wheelworx Bikeshop in Lucan. A report on the tour, together with photos is supplied below by Jimmy Murphy (2 pages).
The next round of the League will take place on 11th February. Further details will be posted on the website closer to the date.
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The 1st Round of the 2018 Dick O’Brien Leisure League will take place on Sunday next, 14th January.
The event will start at 10.00 am, departing from Wheelworx Bike & Triathlon Store, Unit 48, Fonthill Retail Park, Lucan, Co. Dublin. There is plenty of parking available.
The distance will be approx 75km with a tea stop planned for Clane. This is a great opportunity to get in some good miles early in the year with the IVCA and all members are welcome to join in the spin. Many thanks to Jimmy Murphy for organising this event.
For Wheelworx location map click here: http://www.wheelworx.ie/opening-hours
For a route map of the tour click here: http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/954625837
A fine calm morning, Just a bit of drizzle out Trim way for the turn.
Seven pairs lined up for the start and all finished intact. Just one mixed pair among them.
William Parnell and Ned Costello take the trophy riding to just 13 seconds of estimated time, the only ones within a minute of estimate.
Next Sunday, 1st September draws the season to a close with the Kilmacanogue Hill Climb. We hope to see a good turnout.
Phil.
ttcomm@theivca.com
Photo’s courtesy of Tom O’Connell.
A great day had by all. Really lucky with the weather window.
Many thanks to Hugh, Stephen, John and Tom for the organization on the day.
Results to follow in a separate post.
Phil.
Just 12 riders turned out for a final attempt to improve FAR / BAR times and were greeted by a fine and relatively calm morning.
Only eight of the scheduled twelve marshals turned up for duty leaving us very short with four roundabouts to be marshalled. Thanks to those who showed up. The defaulters will be sanctioned by racecomm.
Six of the twelve riders managed to post seasons bests showing the importance of the options day opportunity. Also having moved it to an earlier date was shown to have been a good move by ttcomm.
Now to the task of checking and sorting before producing the final results.
Phil.
ttcomm@theivca.com
A tough day at the office for the nine riders with the remnants of Storm Gert battering us on the outward leg. Probably most having one of their slowest ever outward legs followed by a correspondingly fast return. As always though the aggregate is a disappointing time. It would have been no surprise if no one had beaten handicap but Tony O’Malley managed to beat the odds.
Pat Byrne is the winner on Age Standard from Joe Sheehy and Ken O’Neill with each gap just two seconds.
Ken was Fastest ahead of Joe and Tony.
I’ll highlight the final league tables in a later posting after checking. Anyone with queries shout quick and loud please. Hopefully there will be no changes from what you will see on the relevant result pages .
Thanks to Harry for the timing. No marshals to thank this week but all got around safely. Thanks also to our paramedic for the watchful eye.
BAR / FAR Options day next week 27th to round of the season apart from the Two up and the hillclimb after a few weeks rest.
Phil.
Sat TT_10 takes place at Johnstown Bridge 19th Aug.
SIgn On / HQ Hamlet Court Hotel.
10 Mile TT.
First man off 0930.
Banter tea & coffee afterwards.
A fine evening, possibly the best conditions of the season. Just fifteen riders and again a full compliment of marshals and timekeepers plus the Medic , whom I seem to have been overlooking ( apologies for that ) to look after the riders.. Thankfully the recently chipped road surface was not too loose but it was certainly rough.
Fergal May was fastest and also took the Age Standard points closely followed by Ken O’Neil and Joe Sheehy in second and third, again in actual time and age standard categories.
Colm Cassidy won on handicap followed Oliver Bright and Peter Raftery..
So that’s the last of the TTL League
and just Johnstown Bridge on the 19th to complete the Saturday League series.
After Sundays miserable weather I suspect we may have a good turnout on options day on the 27th to bring the BAR and FAR competitions to a close.
The League positions are available to see on the results sheets but I’ll post a separate summary on those and the after the options day results are processed.
ttcomm@theivca
Phil.
A miserable cool, wet and breezy morning greeted 19 starters at Mother Hubbards.
Thanks to the full compliment of marshals and Harry and Paul on the watches.
Congratulations and kudos to Hugh Davis on a fine 2:07:23 for a plus 26:16 and another Gold Medal to add to his tally.
Pat Byrne with a 1:58:23 for +23:09 takes the Silver Medal.
Joe Sheehy with a 1:59:34 for + 20:29 takes the Bronze Medal.
Adrian Byrne, 2:07:50, +20:17. Tony O’Malley, 1:58:26, +19:11 and Peter Raftery, 2:10:48, +17:19 take the minor places.
First on Handicap Rodney Joyce making a massive improvement on last year followed by Colm Cassidy also with a big improvement and equally Pat Byrne in third. Peter Raftery, Ed O’Brien and Ian O’Hara took the minor handicap placings.
Fastest on the Day, Pat Byrne, followed by Tony O’Malley and Joe Sheehy.
Jimmy Murphy fastest of the two road bikes the other being Bernadette O’Brien, both making their first attempt at the 50 mile test and now with handicaps to shoot at next time.
The Options 25/50 is just two weeks away, on the 27th, providing the last chance for 2017 BAR / FAR qualifying times. Is it to much to ask for clement conditions 🙂
Tuesday 8th sees the last of the midweek racing. Be nice to see a good turn out from the road men.
The final Saturday League TT is at Johnstown Bridge on the 19th.
I’m short on current TT photographs so Tony gets the honour this week for making the fifty his first TT of the season.:-)
ttcom@theivca
Phil.
The shift to Kilcock seems to have been a good move with 50% of the starters beating handicap. We were blessed with a fine morning though not a float one, nevertheless the wind was in the most favorable direction for the course.
Best on Handicap ( and first and only road bike ) was William Parnell who smashed his handicap out of the park. Well done William.
Incredible close competition over the next six places, Ian O’Hara and Sean Darragh in second and third respectively.
Best on age standard and the fastest time of the day went to Joe Sheehy with a super 22:03 and an age standard plus of 3:55 which is up in Ian Cassidy class. First and only lady Ciara Kinch on plus 3:18 in second place on age standard, another elite performance. Third on plus 2:37 was Ian O’Hara then just 22 seconds on age standard separating 3rd to 8th place. Super close competition.
A down side to the day and a story becoming frighteningly common in cycling is Noel Guinan being, apparently deliberately, run off the road by a tractor / trailer . Thankfully Noel did not suffer injury but his bike did.
It’s for incidents like this that I recommend the use of the Fly6 rear light / video camera. They are not cheap but in a case like this, invaluable, as the whole incident would have been available for a complaint to Gardaí.
Thanks to Harry and the full compliment of marshals ( maybe we need one on the junction of the incident in future ) . A late Friday phone around was needed to get the marshal cover. I think next season we will need to consider making a roster of the known Saturday riders pre the start of competition to make marshal cover more predictable.
So, just one more Saturday TT left, Johnstown Bridge on August 19th. Competition is close in the league tables so there is room for changes down at the wire.
ttcom@theivca
Phil.
