Sorrento Cycling Club

.NO…I had an allergy to the volcanic ash……………I kept going…..ashoo! ashoo!

………………………it's all this Norwegian  volcanic ash……it sort of clouds my recollection of events…………like todays MTB spin……….you insisting on another lap just to thrash us……….cruel, so very cruel

THERE WAS JUST ME PAUL C. LINDA AND A NEW FACE NIALL BROWN A FORMER MEMBER OF HIBERNIA CYCLING CLUB (AND WE ALWAYS WELCOME PEOPLE IN WITH A NICE TOUR)……………SO DOWN TO GREGORY'S GARAGE AND UP SLAUGHTER HILL WE WENT VIA KILMURRY CEMETERY…OVER THE TOP AND DOWN PAST SKIRMISH AND ON TO CALARY TOWARD ROUNDWOOD………….LINDA SAID HER LEGS FELT LIKE ANOTHER CLIMB AND INSISTED WE GO UP LUGGALA…..SHE STAYED AT THE BACK AND MADE SURE WE KEPT A BRISK PACE GOING . THEN SHE HECKELED US " FASTER WIMPS UP TO SALLYGAP YE LAGGARDS"……….BLOODY HELL WE WERE DOING OUR BEST. NIALL WAS ENJOYING HIS FIRST SPIN WITH US AND SAID JOHN O SULLIVAN REALLY DID HIM A GREAT FAVOUR BY RECOMMENDING OUR TOUR TO HIM. AT SALLYGAP WE SWUNG FOR GLENMACANASS. THIS IS WERE WE WERE SNUBBED BY A LONE CYCLIST WHO WIZZED BY US. pAUL C. THOUGHT THIS VERY RUDE…….YES WE CAUGHT HIM AND STAYED 10 METRES BEHIND HIM FOR 5KM AND CHATTED AWAY LOUDLY……….YES HE KEPT TRYING TO LOSE US……YES IT WAS MEAN…………YES HE CRACKED………….YES HE BLEW HIS LIGHTS………..YES WE DROPPED HIM ……….ALL HE HAD TO SAY WAS "HI" AND WE NEVER WOULD HAVE PICKED ON HIM……………….SO WE TOTALLY IMMERSED ORSELVES IN THE LESSON……………SPREADING THE WORD…….DO ONTO THOSE AS YOU ETC ETC……………WE ARE NICE PEOPLE AT LARAGH WE DECLINED LINDA'S OFFER OF BANANA BREAD, SOUP AND TEA……….NEXT TIME WE PROMISE……………WE BID FARE THEE WELL TO NIALL AS HE WAS GOING TO CABINTEELY VIA ROUNDWOOD ( HE LOOKED DELIGHTED AND PROMISED TO BE ON ALL OUR FUTURE TOURS- GOOD MAN) PAUL AND ME WENT DOWN TO NEWTOWN VIA BALLYDUFF AND THEN HOME………………………………………………COME JOIN US NEXT WEEK WERE THERE WILL BE A 200KM TOUR ( STEADY SENSIBLE PACE) OVER THE MB CIRCUIT AND LOADS OF TURN BACK PLACES FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT FANCY THE FULL 200KM.