Sorrento Cycling Club

My first post!! Hope it’s working…   Denis, in Gorey, try Paul C’s nutrigrain bars, did wonders for me Saturday anyway!  Thanks Paul M for leading the way on Sunday, think we all had a great day  (so many Paul's, hard to keep track… )

unless you can enlist the help of the same flock of sheep I drafted up kippure?

who said sheep weren't a "DOMESTIQUE" animal ! 

Post edited 4:34 pm - Saturday, March 27, 2010 by Paul S Murray

AS A LOT OF YE CAN'T RIDE THE TOURS DUE TO RACING ETC WE SEEM TO HAVE ONLY FIVE OR SO OUT THESE DAYS, SO WE RIDE STRANGE ROADS TO MAKE IT INTERESTING! TODAY WE WENT UP BY AVOCA HANDWEAVERS THEN ONTO THE ROAD TO POWERSCOURT WATERFALL BUT DESCENDED TOWARD KNOCKREE THEN TOOK A LEFT WHICH BROUGHT US OVER TO CRONE. THERE WAS ME, PAUL, LINDA, DENIS AND MARK A FRIEND OF DENIS. WE CLIMBED TO GLENCREE (DENIS TOOK A 1KILO FLYER UP THE LAST BIT AND WAITED. WE THEN ASCENDED TO THE GATES OF KIPPURE. LINDA WAS PROMISED IF SHE CAME WITH US WE WOULD RIDE BACK BY GLENMACANASS TO LARAGH…..WE LIED! UP WE BATTLED INTO A STIFF HEADWIND TOWARD KIPPURE ON THE NARROW BUMPY ROAD. DENIS AND PAUL RODE AWAY, LINDA AND MARK DROPPED BACK AND ME? WELL I WAS THE MEAT IN THE SANDWICH: I DIDN'T WANT TO DROP BACK SO I DRAGGED MY SORRY ASS UP TO PAUL 200 METRES FROM THE SUMMIT. DENIS HAD PUT 200 METRES INTO HIM AND THAT'S WHEN I SIMPLY STOPPED…..TOTALLY BANDJAXED AND WAITED FOR THE OTHERS. WE GOT TO THE SUMMIT AND WE WERE NOW HIGHER THAN DJOUCE MT……YES BY 25 METRES! THE VIEW WAS SUPERB. WE DESCENDED TO THE SALLYGAP ROAD AND LINDA HAMMERED US ALL THE WAY TO SALLYGAP ( WHERE DID YOU GET THAT FROM????) SO WE 4 WENT TO LUGGALA NOT GLENMACANASS, LINDA DID THAT ON HER OWN (THAT'LL TEACH YA NOT TO PICK ON US OLD LADS)….SORRY LINDA BUT WE WERE PRETTY KNACKERED ! I TOOK THE PRIME AT LUGGALA BUT IT MEANT NOTHING AS DENIS HAD DESTROYED US ON THE REAL CLIMB. WE WENT DOWN TO ROUNDWOOD AND SLAUGHTER HILL AND HOME ….I NOW PREDICT A TOP 10 ON G.C AND A STAGE WIN FOR DENIS IN THE GOREY 3-DAY……OH THE PRESSURE!!!!