Sorrento Cycling Club

The club prize presentation will be held on the Friday 6th November at 8pm in the Esplanade Hotel, on Bray seafront. There is a charge per person of 15 euro to cover finger food. This is a good chance to catch up with everyone. It is important for all the prize winners to come on the night.

As I need to commit to numbers soon please contact me by return to let me know if you are, or are not, attending (and if anyone will accompany you). You can contact me at geraldinec.oshea@gmail.com

This years Avonmore challenge takes place on October 18th. The event is open to all club members but especially aimed at our underage mountain bikers.

The event will start in Rathdrum at 10am. All groups will finish at a Glenealy Hall at approx 1:30pm and will receive certificates. Some food will be provided afterwards, but parents are asked to bring along some additional food if possible as the riders will be hungry. All club members and their parents are most welcome

See Aidan’s training advice and other details of the event here. Hope to see you all there.

Wicklow Local Sports Partnership will be holding a 1 day Sports Injuries First Aid Course on Saturday 10th October 2009, 9.00am-5pm at Shoreline Leisure Centre, Mill Road, Greystones, Co. Wicklow.

The course which is certified by Heartbeat Saftey, will bring participants through the basics of emergency care focusing on:
- Aprroach to an accident
- Disorders of breathing & CPR
- Wounds & bleeding
-Fractures & broken bones
- Spinal injuries
- Burns & scalds
- Medical emergencies

Places available are limited and pre-booking is essential. The cost of the course is EUR30 per person. The Club will pay half this fee for any club member who want to attend this course. Course information and application forms are available by contacting Wicklow Local Sports Partnership on 01 287 8184 or emailing TBunyan@wicklowcoco.ie.

Circuit training will start on Wed 30th September at 8pm in Presentation College Bray. €40 for the series (Wednesdays to mid December, except for Oct mid term) or €5 per night. €2 per night for Juniors and underage, or €10 for the series. 2nd and subsequent kids in each family go free.

All levels are catered for. For more information please contact Mark Loughran 086 822 5310 or info@identikit.ie.

The last race in the league is on Monday 31st August at 7pm. It is a MTB event at Kindlestown woods, near Delgany. You can see al of the results to date here.

The Murphy & Gunn Interclub League prize night, is on Fri 11th of Sept, at 8.00pm in the Bray Clubhouse. This will be the prize giving for both the senior and also the underage leagues.

There will be refreshments, some spot prizes for the underage, and a slideshow of photos of the riders in action. Anyone willing to bring cakes etc, would be very welcome.

The upcoming Audax events on Sat 5th September will start and finish at Bray Wheelers Clubhouse.

Dying Sow 300k 06.00hrs
Dying Cow 200k 08.00hrs
Dying Sparrow 160k 09.00hrs

Entry fee is 5 euro. A.C.P medals available for anyone who rides 200/300 distances
Shower facilities/coffee at finish. Insurance required but day licences available on the day.
Sit down control at Hacketstown

Preliminary route sheet for 200k Dying Cow here. There may be some changes posted to the final route sheet.

Route sheet for 160k Dying Sparrow here.

Route sheet for 300k Dying Sow here.

GPS map for Dying Sow here

Congratulations to Enda Ryan who capped a fine season by taking first place in the Interclub League, the first time that a Sorrento rider has taken that honour. Enda finished second in the fifth and final race to win the title in style. See the full results and table here.

The club Hill Climb Championship was won by Dave Peelo with Conal Higgins (Jnr) second and Mark Prendergast third. In the club League, the final places were settled with Roy Bowden taking top spot for 2009 after a very consistent series of results over the season. Second place went to the 2008 winner, Enda Ryan, who beat Dave Peelo on countback. Full resultshere.

I’m sure I speak for all the riders in thanking Joanne O’Shea for running another super league. Thanks also to Danny and Geraldine O’Shea for their invaluable help each Thursday night, rain or shine.

Congratulations to Enda Ryan on capping a great year on the bike by winning the U-16 Scratch Race title at the Underage National Track Championships last Saturday. Enda also took bronze medals in the 500m TT and Sprint events.

Update… Congratulations to Joey Keane (ticket sold by Aidan Ryan) on scooping the top prize of €125 in the sweepstake with Alberto Contador. All the winners are listed here and distribution of the prizemoney will happen shortly (through the ticket sellers).

Hi everyone. Thanks to all those who bought and sold tickets in the 2009 TDF sweepstake. The draw has taken place. You can see your star (or dogs!) here.

The blank area will be filled in when those tickets have been returned.

The winner of the first stage was Fabian Cancellara and the winning ticket was bought by Conal Higgins Jnr. He wins €25.

Talk about the calm before the storm. We got lucky on Saturday with a measure of calm weather before the gales and rain of the afternoon. Many of the riders took advantage to put in great performances, recording fast times or PB’s. First home was Paul Healion in a new course record time of 20.16, followed by Colm Cassidy and Anthony Walsh, both of whom broke 21 minutes. First veteran was Cathal Millar in 22.02, pipping Sorrento’s Mark Prendergast by 11 seconds. The ladies prize went to Eithne Dalby with 26.45. Enda Ryan took the U-16 category in 25.18 and Fintan Ryan the U-14 in 31.45.

Well done to the Sorrento riders who set PB’s on the day…Mark Prendergast, Enda Ryan, John O’Sullivan (Audax), Eileen O’Sullivan and Fintan Ryan.

See full result here.

Karl Monaghan took some great pictures, now loaded on the club Flickr account, here

A blue overtop with a Suburu Team logo was not collected from the starter after the race. Contact John O’Sullivan (see contacts page) to reclaim.

The club is running its annual open 10 mile TT at 11 am on Saturday July 11th at Newtownmountkennedy (opposite Gregory’s Garage).

Sign-on from 9:30am to 10:30am. Entry Fee €10 (€5 for Juniors, free Underage). Open to all categories from U-14 upwards.

Contact Joanne O’Shea (see contacts page) for further details.

You can see the course here.

Great performances from Sorrento riders in Round 7 of the National Points Series race held at Djouce, promoted by MAD. Conal Higgins, Matthew Cosgrave, and David McKenna took 1st, 3rd and 4th respectively in the Junior race, a fantastic achievement by the lads. Paddy Mackey took 5th place in the Vets race. Well done to all!

The club offers its condolences to John Piggott on the death of his mother Agnes. Funeral service , Church of Ireland, York Road, 11am Sat 13 June.

Those of you with a facebook account might like to join the Sorrento Cycling Club group that has been set up for current and former members

The club offers its condolences to the Claire Irwin and Paul O’ Donoghue on the death of Claire’s mother, Margaret. Removal Tuesday 28th April, to Monkstown church, arriving at 5 o’clock. Funeral on Wednesday after 10 o’clock Mass.

See new photos of the Ballyhoua underage MTB trip on the photo page

Thanks to everyone who took part in the 2009 running of Sorrento’s annual open MTB race and to the many people who helped organise and run the event on the day. The full results are available here.

The first audax date of this years calender is on Sunday April 5th, starting at 8:00am.

The route is designed to be relatively flattish with a routesheet that is easy to follow. The start will be from Bray Wheelers Clubhouse.There will be parking and showering facilities on site. See here for full details, routesheet and entry form.

The club offers its condolences to the Conal Higgins and his family on the death of Conal’s father, Kevin. Go ndeana Dia trocaire ar a anam.
Removal Tuesday 31 March from Quinn’s of Glasthule to the Church of S.S. Alphonsus and Columba, Ballybrack, arriving at 5 o’clock. Funeral on Wednesday after 11 o’clock Mass to Deansgrange Cemetery.