Sorrento Cycling Club

Chairman John O’Sullivan;  Secretary  Andy Kavanagh; Treasurer Clare Irwin; Racing   Joanne O’Shea;  Touring Paul Murray; MTB  Conal Higgins; Social John McInerney; Coaching   Dave Peelo and Aidan Ryan.

An EGM will be held in conjunction with a reconvened prizegiving evening in the coming weeks to elect a Chairman.

It is with deep sadness that I have to inform members of the death of long time member and founder of the club, Danny O’Shea, following a long illness. Danny played a leading role in the club, all down the years, and was a leading commissiare and timekeeper in Irish cycling.  The club expresses its sympathy to Geraldine and Joanne at this sad time.

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Danny’s removal will be from Sheahan’s Funeral Home , 71 Georges St. Upr., Dun Laoghaire to Dalkey church on Tuesday 1st November for 5 o’clock arrival and the funeral mass will be at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. See notice here

The club will be providing a  (cycling) guard of honour for the Tuesday removal.  Please contact John O’Sullivan on 086 8549881 or osulljp@gmail.com

Aidan Ryan’s circuit training will resume on Wednesday 19th October at a NEW location, St Thomas VEC, Novara Avenue, Bray. Unfortunately the only slot available is 7pm-8pm. This is half an hour shorter that in past years, and considerably earlier.  We hope to run the circuit training through to mid December, subject to demand.

It is impossible to know if this new arrangement will suit people. The first night is FREE so come along if you can. If numbers are poor we will take it as a sign that it does not suit and is unlikely to work and we will probably not then run the series. We anticipate costs being similar to last year at roughly €5 per head and €2 for underage (will depend on numbers again).

Djouce upper car park.  Sunday October 9th, 10.30am

Well done to Paul O’Donoghue, John O’Sullivan and Andy Kavanagh on completing Paris Brest Paris (1,230km) at the end of August. The event runs every 4 years, so plenty of time for all club members to train for 2015!

Congrats to Jamie Noone on being first Junior in the recent national hill climb championship

Congratulations to former Sorrento member Chris Jensen who has joined Saxo Bank, one of the leading Pro Tour teams. Read more here.

Hard working Racing Sec

The last few weeks saw fast and furious action in club league, and championships, with some notable performances.  Congratulations go to club secretary Mark McGarry on capping a fine season by winning the league by two points from Eileen O’Sullivan. Eileen applied the pressure in winning the final CP race, but Mark had things under control to finish 4th on the night and effectively take the league ( with just the hill climb remaining).  In third place was our talented newcomer Jamie Noone, competing in his first full season. Though Jamie didn’t win a race, he placed 2nd or 3rd in seven of the ten races he rode. He missed one race, which proved costly in the end. Close behind came Andy Kavanagh and Paul Cullinan. Had Andy not missed two races, nor gone off course in the TT, he would have been very close to taking the top spot. Overall It was a great league and once again our thanks go to Joanne for all her hard work.

The club Road Race championship was run over the alternative Filterbeds course. It was a hotly contested affair, only settled by a withering attack on the last hill which saw Dave Peelo finally shake off Jamie Noone and Paul Cullinan. Jamie took the sprint for second. Dave and Jamie also took the top two places in the final Championship, the Hill Climb, with Brian Geraghty third.

See full results on the Club League page.

The final Interclub League race , a 32km CP, takes place at Calary on Thrusday August 4th. Jamie Noone and Dave Peelo are well up on the overall standings and in with a chance of top spot.  I’m sure that both would welcome teammate support on the night in their quest for glory.

Apologies for lack of results. I hope to get them posted in the coming days.

Congratulations to Paul O’Donoghue and John O’Sullivan (the audax one!) on completing the 2011 edition of the 24 hour TT in Chesire over the weekend. To see a video of complete nutters in action here is the link http://youtu.be/coDkSXAAHbE

Watch Clare Irwin audition for a job in the feed zone on the Tour de France as she expertly passes the musette to Paul, in the dead of night!   Bonkers!

Prizewinners listed HERE

The draw for the 2011 TDF sweepstake has been made. You can find the draw HERE. Can those of you who have not returned  tickets please e-mail me the purchaser details so that I can complete the draw listing.

We will be operating on a “first past the post” basis. Whoever stands on the rostrum in Paris will be considered the winner, regardless of arbitrations and appeals at a later date (pity to have to say that at all  in relation to our sport).

Best of luck to everyone.   John O’Sullvan.

FULL RESULTS HERE. Congratulations to Sandra Fitzgerald who took the Women’s Commission bonus for lowering the event record by 1 second!
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The club will run its 7th Annual Open 10 Mile TT on Saturday 23th July at Kilpeddar.  This year we are delighted that the event will also incorporate a round of the Women’s National League series. As an incentive, the Women’s Commission are putting up €150 for the setting of a new women’s record for the event, which currently stands at 24:00 by Jenny Fay (Orwell) from 2005.

Sign-on will open at 9:45am with the race start at 11am.  Race HQ is in The Grove Inn (Devereaux’s), 1 mile north of Kilpeddar Village, off the northbound carriageway of the N11, 5 miles south of Bray.

Entry fee is €10 for Seniors/Vets and €5 for Juniors. Underage are free. A racing license is required and one day licenses will be available.

The course runs from Kilpeddar to Coynes Cross and back. Turns will be marshalled and the road marked.

The Mick Byrne  is over again for another year. Mother nature did its utmost to spoil the party. Thankfully everyone returned in more or less one piece!.  Thanks to all who helped on the day and to all the hardy cyclists who braved the weather to support the event.  To see  some super photos taken on the day (thanks to Karl Monaghan and Andy Kavanagh)   click HERE

We received the following note from Cycling Ireland:

“Can you please inform your riders if you are speaking with them to bring last years back/ racing number to this weekends race as the 2011 may not reach them in time.”

We are about to order a stocking order of short and long sleeve jerseys, bibshorts and bibtghts. If you want any other items, such as skinsuit, winter jacket or gilet, you need to contact me ASAP by e-mail. You can see the range of clothing at http://www.wattcustom.com/. Note that their  pricing does not include VAT.

The Sorrento mad lads can’t be housebound for long!. And you can all join them on Sat 4th on Stephen Healy’s Snow tour No. 2.  See the photos here.

And the video Here

The 2011 Audax list of events has been issued and can be seen here.

Underage champs:

1st Caolan Higgins
2nd Liam Hayes
3rd Peter O’Sullivan

Senior champs

1st Paddy Mackey
2nd Conal Higgins (Jnr)
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Circuit training resumes on Wednesday 6th October, 8pm, at Presentation College, Bray (until 8th December) run by club coach, Aidan Ryan.

€40 for the series or €5 per night.  Junior & Underage €10 for the series or €2 per night.  No charge for second and subsequent underage family members.

All welcome.