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Anyone doing the Wicklow 200...?
Hi,
Here it is December 11th and I'm feeling a wee bit depressed as I look out my window and see rain, lotsa' a wind and a thermometer that says it's really cold outside (Pacific Northwest!). I'm thinking of more joyful times of riding my road bike under much better conditions, that's for sure! Anyway, enough melancholy, I'd like to go to Ireland and do the Wicklow 200 Challenge this coming June 12th and was wondering if there are any other cyclists out there considering doing the same ride? I'd like to hear from anyone who has either done this ride or is planning on doing it...It would be nice to chat with others about the Wicklow 200, Sally Gap, Wicklow Gap (I believe featured in the 1998 Tour de France). I have plenty of cold, wet training rides (until the spring!) ahead of me to get prepared for what I understand is a very strenuous ride! I realize I must be a bit of a masochist to be thinking of riding up some long steep mountain road with my heart rate monitor on 'TILT!', my bike barely moving, sweating my brains out and my head feeling like the lit end of a match...(aahhhh, those are the days!) during the holiday season but, hey, what can I say! P.S. Also around July 2nd is the Killarney SummerFest that includes a supported(?) 112 mile ride around the Ring of Kerry...I understand that riding the Ring of Kerry between June thru August can be very challenging due to the narrow roads and summer tourist traffic! I've seen pictures of the Gap of Dunloe and all I can say is I'd hate to crest that climb and have a truck (lorry?) reaching the top from the other direction at the same time! Anyway, let's have a 'bit of a chin wag' to get through another crappy winter...Okay, okay I know Winter doesn't start for another ten days...Get over it! George |
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"Bubba" schreef in bericht ... Hi, Here it is December 11th and I'm feeling a wee bit depressed as I look out my window and see rain, lotsa' a wind and a thermometer that says it's really cold outside (Pacific Northwest!). I'm thinking of more joyful times of riding my road bike under much better conditions, that's for sure! Anyway, enough melancholy, I'd like to go to Ireland and do the Wicklow 200 Challenge this coming June 12th and was wondering if there are any other cyclists out there considering doing the same ride? I'd like to hear from anyone who has either done this ride or is planning on doing it...It would be nice to chat with others about the Wicklow 200, Sally Gap, Wicklow Gap (I believe featured in the 1998 Tour de France). I have plenty of cold, wet training rides (until the spring!) ahead of me to get prepared for what I understand is a very strenuous ride! I realize I must be a bit of a masochist to be thinking of riding up some long steep mountain road with my heart rate monitor on 'TILT!', my bike barely moving, sweating my brains out and my head feeling like the lit end of a match...(aahhhh, those are the days!) during the holiday season but, hey, what can I say! P.S. Also around July 2nd is the Killarney SummerFest that includes a supported(?) 112 mile ride around the Ring of Kerry...I understand that riding the Ring of Kerry between June thru August can be very challenging due to the narrow roads and summer tourist traffic! I've seen pictures of the Gap of Dunloe and all I can say is I'd hate to crest that climb and have a truck (lorry?) reaching the top from the other direction at the same time! Anyway, let's have a 'bit of a chin wag' to get through another crappy winter...Okay, okay I know Winter doesn't start for another ten days...Get over it! George If it was an mtb event, I would -- Posted by news://news.nb.nu |
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