Sorrento Cycling Club

Post edited 11:07 am - Monday, November 21, 2011 by Paul S Murray

FIRST TOUR BY THE NEW TOURING CAPTAIN WAS A STRANGE AFFAIR…….SIMPLY BECAUSE THREE OF THE NEW COMMITTEE WERE ON IT…….ALL THREE WONDERING JUST WHY? WHY ME?…………..AS WE MADE OUR WAY UP TO KILPEDDAR, ACROSS THROUGH NEWTOWN AND UP BY DUNRAN HILL…..THEY MUTTERED ALONG TO THEMSELVES, "WHY? WHY ME? WHY?"……….I EVEN TOOK UP THE CHANT UNTIL WE LEFT ASHFORD AND HEADED UP TO MONEYSTOWN. HERE THE THREE OF US WERE TOLD IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS TO STOP OUR SNIVELLING OR ELSE………….BUT WHY? WHY ME?……….AND THE ANSWER CAME AS WE BUMPED OUR WAY DOWN KNOCKNAFRUMPA LANE AND IT WAS THIS…………….WHY NOT!!……………..AND SO AS OUR COLLECTIVE MOOD IMPROVED, WE CHATTED AWAY AND AT LAST LOOKED AROUND AT THE VERY BEAUTIFUL SCENERY……….HAPPY THOUGHTS FILLED OUR HAPPY LITTLE HEADS AND OUR HAPPY LITTLE FACES WERE ILLUMINATED AS IF FROM WITHIN BY ALL THOSE HAPPY BRIGHT IDEAS………ONE WAS :  "I'LL BRING THESE SODS OVER EVER SINGLE BUMPY/RUTTED ROAD IN WICKLOW IN THE NEXT EIGHT WEEKS AND THEY'LL BE AT MY MERCY ALL WINTER……HE HE HAW HAW HE HO HO BLOODY HO……..THEY WILL LEARN TO CYCLE TWO BY TWO, THEY WILL LEARN NEVER TO HALF-WHEEL, THEY WILL SUFFER MY CONSTANT WATCHFUL, CRITICAL GAZE……OH SUCH HAPPY THOUGHTS"…………………ON ACROSS KNOCKFADDA AND WE SUNG AROUND AT CORNCRAKE AND ACROSS TO CALARY, SOME FOR TEA AND "BUNS" AND OTHERS TRIPPED ALONG  HOMEWARDS BOUND………..DAVE AND GILLIAN, JAMIE, PAUL C, FINTAN, ENDA, BRIAN, STEPHEN AND  " WHY ME? ANDY"…."WHY ME? CONAL" AND OF COURSE "ME, BUT WHY ME? ME"