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Leisure News

IVCA – Dick O’Brien Leisure League – Round 8 – The 100 in 8 Tour – 2023

Hi All,
The  IVCA wish to invite members to participate in round eight of the Dick O’Brien Leisure League – The 100 in 8 Tour – 2023 on  Sunday 20th August 2023. Sign on at the Grasshopper Pub Car Park Clonee, Co. Meath, from 08.30am. Departure 09.00am sharp.
Total distance = 160 KM Approx.. There will be a tea stop in Delvin as usual. All those wishing to participate must be
IVCA members and or CI licence holders and the rules of the road must be observed.

https://strava.app.link/vxOwnC9jHBb

Please see attachment for the route map. Please note the STRAVA link  aboveshould start and end in Clonee and should only be 160KM.

Regards,

Brendan Johnston

CHAIN GANG / General News

Dick O’Brien Leisure League – Round 7 Sunday 9th July 2023

The IVCA wish to invite members to participate in round seven of the Dick O’Brien Leisure League – The We’ll Meath Again Tour – 2023 on Sunday 9th July 2023. Sign on at the Grasshopper Pub Car Park Clonee, Co. Meath, from 08.30 am. Departure 09.00 am sharp. Total distance = 75 KM Approx.. There will be a tea stop at Summerhill as usual. All those wishing to participate must be IVCA members and or CI licence holders and the rules of the road must be observed.

Link to route on Mapmyride

https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/5605321684/

Regards,

Brendan.

Road News

IVCA Track – How To Get Involved

IVCA Track – How to get involved.
By Hugh Byrne

I know that there is interest within the IVCA in trying out Track but many of you are not quite sure how it works and how to get involved.

Track Racing requires a two stage ‘Accreditation’ with the first being attendance at an official Track Accreditation at Eamonn Ceannt Stadium, Sundrive Road, where you will be taught how to ride a fixed wheel / no brakes bike safely and how to deal with moving around on the track and the etiquette involved for training and racing. The second stage is to attend a normal training session and put all you have learned into fitting into that session.

Your options regarding ‘Accreditation’ is to either attend a normal public one in Saturday May 13th or Saturday June 03rd at 1430 and you can book in advance via https://eventmaster.ie/event/yzmwtP0SVy  at a cost of €15. Use of a hire bike is included in that price.

Your second option is to attend the IVCA Track Accreditation (Free) night on June 9th at 7pm. I will circulate a link to sign into IVCA sessions closer to those dates. Either way you need to attend a normal training session on either at Saturday at 10am or Monday SQT. Details of all public coached sessions are listed on the calendar on www.trackcycling.ie as is how to sign in and pay for them.

We then have an IVCA Race Night (for Accredited riders) on Friday June 30th at 7pm followed by the IVCA Track Championships on July 22nd /23rd featuring Match Sprint / Pursuit / Standing Start 500m TT / Scratch Race and Team Sprint – all categorised by age.  This forms a nice prelude for the Master National Track Championships on Saturday September 9th.

Track Racing is exciting, fast, fun and social and will compliment your road skills. Sessions can be quite structured, technical and efforts are short, defined but generally intense.  You do need to put a bit of time into it of course to get the best out of yourself but we have superb coaches to help you with that. You don’t need a bike to start with as we have an extensive fleet for hire. There are fitted with Look Keo Pedals (we also have shoes) and gearing is low for training. Low gearing will however help with the transition as cadences are higher than we would use on the road.

The website for information is www.trackcycling.ie and the contact email is sundrive@trackcycling.ie or indeed you can contact me directly at 086-3488708

Hugh Byrne (Sundrive Track Team)

Leisure News

Dick O’Brien Leisure League – Round 5 – Sunday 14th April – The Mind the Gaps Tour – 2023

The  IVCA wish to invite members to participate in round five of the Dick O’Brien Leisure League – The Mind the Gaps Tour – 2023 on  Sunday 14th May 2023. Sign on at the Cycle Superstore car park in Airton Rd, Tallaght, from 08.30am. Departure 09.00am sharp. Total distance = Approx. 120km. There will be a tea stop at Laragh as usual. All those wishing to participate must be IVCA members and or CI licence holders and the rules of the road must be observed.

 

Please see below link  for the route map.

Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/Xe73N3cHPyb

regards,

Brendan….

Brendan Johnston – Touring director – 2023

General News

Memorial mass for Gay Farnan – Saturday 25th March

Hi all,

The family of the late Gay Farnan wish to invite all members to a memorial mass in his honour on Saturday 25th march at 18.00 in the church of Our Lady Mother of the Church, Caste knock, with refreshments afterwards in Myos restaurant.

Kind regards,

Brendan Johnston – touring director 2023

Leisure News

Dick O’Brien Leisure League – Round 4 2nd April – The Liam Horner Memorial Tour 2023

Hi all

The IVCA wish to invite members to participate in round four of the Dick O’Brien Leisure League – The Liam Horner Memorial Tour 2023  on Sunday 02nd April 2023. Sign on at the Grass hopper pub car park in Clonee from 09.30am. Departure 10.00am sharp. Please see below link for the route map. Approx. 80km. There will be a tea stop on Tara Hill as usual. All those wishing to participate must be IVCA members and or CI licence holders and the rules of the road must be observed.

https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/4910864242

regards,

Brendan Johnston – Touring director – 2023

Leisure News

Sunday 12th March – Dick O’Brien Leisure League – Round 3 – 50 in 4 Tour

Hi all

The IVCA wish to invite members to participate in round three of the Dick O’Brien Leisure League – the 50 in 4 Tour on Sunday 12th March 2023. Sign on at the Grass hopper pub car park in Clonee from 09.30am. Departure 10.00am sharp. Please see below link for the route map. There will be a tea stop in Summerhill as usual. All those wishing to participate must be IVCA members and or CI licence holders and the rules of the road must be observed.

https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/5414407087/

Regards

Brendan Johnston

General News

New Mailing List – Check your SPAM!

Hi all

The IVCA has set up a new emailing list for the 2023 season.  You will start to receive emails from the address ivcamembers2023@googlegroups.com

Please check your spam folder if you don’t start to see emails in your Inbox over the next few days, as the Race Committee are sending out notifications in preparation for the 2023 season.

Many thanks,

Mike Haynes – Race Director

Tony O’Malley – Web Admin

Leisure News

Wheel Meath in February Tour – Sunday 12th Feb

Hi all

The second tour of the IVCA Dick O’Brien Leisure League – Wheel Meath in February Tour – will take place on Sunday, February 12th next, at 10.00am departing from the Grasshopper pub car park, Clonee, Co.Meath.

See route map here: – https://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/5378399581/

The distance will be approx. 70 KM and there will be a tea stop in Ashbourne.

All IVCA members welcome and all riders must hold a current CI licence