Sorrento Cycling Club

Post edited 4:36 pm - Saturday, February 20, 2010 by Paul S Murray

WE MET IN SUNSHINE AND FRIDGID AIR AND HEADED OFF AROUND 10.10 AM. DOWN THE N11 TO THE CULLENMORE BENDS. SALT CRYSTALS AS BIG AS I CARATE DIAMONDS LITTERED THE ROUNDABOUTS. AT RATHNEW WE TURNED TO GO UP THE OLD BEEHIVE HILL ROAD. KARL TURNED BACK TO FIND JOIN THE ZIMMER TOURING GROUP. ON WE WENT AT A NICE PACE OVER TOWARDS KILMACURRAGH, THEN TURNING DOWN TO THE TAP PUB AND DOWN THE N11 PAST JACK WHITE'S PUB (OOH! THE THIRST BEGAN AROUND HERE) TO ARKLOW AND ONTO THE COASTAL ROAD. WE PICKED UP A NICE TAIL-WIND HERE BUT THE GOOD FEELING SOON EVAPORATED AS THE PACE HAD PICKED UP MORE THAN JUST A LITTLE. WE NEARED BRITTAS BAY AND SOME ONE SUGGESTED WE SHOULD REALLY SLOW DOWN A LITTLE AND MABYE PADDLE ON THE BEACH OR BUILD A CASTLE……BUT NO ONE DID……SO I PRESUMED THEY WERE HAVING TOO MUCH  FUN GOING UP THE HILL PAST MCDANIEL'S PUB….. I EVEN TRIED TO FREEWHEEL DOWN THE OTHER SIDE BUT NO-WAY…..KEEP PEDDALING SOMEONE GASPED…..BLOODY HELL TALK ABOUT ENJOYING YOURSELF…..SO ON WE WENT UP THE BACK OF BALLYGUILE BEG WHERE WE STOPPED FOR ROSE BUT SHE HAD GONE EAST BY THE COAST ROAD….ON WE CLIMBED ACROSS TO BALLYNABARNEY AND DESCENDED TO RATHNEW AND UP THE COAST ROAD. PAUL C WAS DELIGHTED SO TOO WAS PADDY AND ME AS WE WERE GOING PAST OUR HOMES…YIPEE! STEPHEN EASED UP HERE AND THE LAST I SAW OF THE GROUP WAS DAVE LEADING CONAL JNR. AND FURTHER BACK HIS DADDY, WHO TOLD ME HE WAS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT GOING UP WINDGATES IN THE COMPANY OF THOSE TWO…….NOW WHAT WAS IT YOU SAID ?……RHYMES WITH BUCKET AND SPADE ( SORT OF )