Sorrento Cycling Club

Post edited 11:30 pm - Monday, May 10, 2010 by Paul S Murray

THIS TOUR STARTED NICELY WITH A TAILWIND, WE GOT PUSHED ALONG DOWN THE N11 BY A FRIENDLY BREEZE. INITALLY THERE WAS ME, PAUL C, POD AND CLAIRE , DENIS AND LINDA. WE MET DENNIS BRENNAN AND WERE THEN JOINED BY ROSE AND JOHN AND SIOBHAN DUGGAN. AFTER THE CULLENMORE WE SWUNG UP TO KILLISKEY AND LOST ROSE, JOHN, POD AND CLAIRE WHO WERE ON THERE TANDEM. THEN DENNIS WENT OFF SOMEWHERE. SO LIKE JESUS I WAS LEFT WITH A FEW FAITHFUL APOSTLES. OVER TO NUN'S CROSS ( WELL HAVE YOU EVEN SEEN ONE OF THOSE!!) THEN LEFT UNDER THE DEVIL'S GLEN HILL AND UP TO THE AREA KNOWN AS BALPEEN AND THEN WE DESCENDED TO THE BRIDGE AT CLARA CHURCH. THIS CHURSH IS SPECIAL BECAUSE A VERY SPECIAL PERSON GOT MARRIED THERE IN 1982. AFTER THE VERY STEEP ASCENT TO YHE VALE ROAD DENNIS PUNCTURED…..WE WAITED AND HE EVENTUALLY GOT THE TYRE INFLATED, WITH MY HELP OF COURSE…..POOR LAD HAD A PROBLEM WITH PRESSURE!………..JUST THEN EILEEN AND SADIE FREEWHEELED UP TO US….THEY TOO HELPED DENIS……ON WE WENT AND THEN TOOK A VERY SPECIAL ROAD…..UP AND UP IT WENT AND THEN ……

….IT JUST WASN'T THERE ANYMORE……..AHEAD LAY AN ANCIENT RELIC  (NO, NOT ME) A ROUGH BUMPY EARTHEN TRACK…………ISN'T THIS FUN LINDA SAID…..EILEEN AGREED AND THE REST NODDED THERE HEADS (THEY HAD NO CHOICE AS THE ROAD WAS SO VERY BOUNCY)……SOMEONE KEPT SAYING "JESUS" AND I THINK THAT IS VERY SWEET……….HAPPY PEOPLE MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. NEXT UP WAS A RIVER CROSSING: SADIE LASHED ACROSS IT NO PROB………TRULY I SAY TO YOU……………YOU'RE  A 3F'S BIKER………….FEARLESS AND FOOLISH ENOUGH TO FOLLOW ME!!!……..JOINED THE ELLIOT DESCENT AND DOWN TO LARAGH WE ALL SWEPT. SOME FOR ASHFORD THE REST FOR LOUGH DAN/ROUNDWOOD AND HOME. BLESS YOU ALL AND MAY GOD KEEP YOU SAFE AND WELL ESP. ON ONE OF THESE EVANGELICAL TOURS…GO FORTH I SAY AND DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT……..GO………BE YOURSELF…BE FREE…..OOPS! SORRY FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T LISTEN TO ME……………………………………………………….GO ON GO FOR IT! NEXT WEEKS TOUR WILL INVOLVE TOTAL IMMERSION