Club Updates 17/5/2012

Weekly Spins continue every Tuesday evening from St.Josephs Boys National School Abbeytown Boyle at 7pm. All abilities welcome.

Sunday Spin 9.30am Advanced and 11.00am intermediate and beginners same start point as Tuesday evening.

Training time trials continue Thursday evening 17th and 24th of May distance 10km at 7.00pm at the Doon turn off on the main N4 Sligo direction (at East Brothers). Thanks very much to all members who have helped out at these events and especially Seamus Gallagher who has been time keeping every Tursday. All members are welcome  and all abilities catered for so if you haven’t been to one already why not come out this week and give it a try. It’s a great way to track your progress or if you have any questions email curlieuwheelerscc@gmail.com

Training  continues  for the 5 members who will be completing the L’Etape Tour in July. Various fundraisers will be  held between now and July so keep an eye out for local events . Well done  all members who are completing challenging training camps in Spain and France to ensure they are ready for July.

If any members have any cycling equipment or bikes for sale please email Carmel at curlieuwheelerscc@gmail.com and I will put it up on the blog and facebook for you. Or if you are training or have completed an event please forward me on the details  so i can update  the blog and the Local papers.

Fundraising Table Quiz

In The Moylurg Inn

On Friday 18th  of May @ 9pm

 In aid of Cancer Care West – Leukaemia Support Fund

On July 14th next, 5 members of the Curlieu Wheelers Cycling Club will be leaving the “Curlews” behind, and heading for the Pyrenees to take part in L’Etape du Tour 2012. They will be completing a 200km stage of the Tour De France, which includes 5 Category climbs, in one day. Various fundraising events, including the table quiz mentioned above, will be held between now and July, and all funds raised will be donated to the Cancer Care West – Leukaemia Support Fund. So please spread the word and come along to support a very worthy charity.

Tables of 4, 20 euro per table. Other events on the night too.

Sunday Spin 13th of May

Well done to all members who made it out to the spin this morning. 33km around Lough key instead of Lough Arrow due to the cross winds this morning and finished off well with a coffee stop in Lough Key Activity Centre. Let’s keep that spin going once a month where everyone goes in the one group. See all Tuesday or Thursday Eve.

Sunday Spin 13th May

This Sunday the club spin will be a 37k loop around Lough Arrow for all cyclists. All members of all abilities are urged to come out and cycle as one group for this Sunday's spin, meeting at the boys school at 11.00am.

Anyone who wants to do a bit more could go out earlier and meet back at the school for 11.00am.

It would be nice if as many members as possible could turn up and cycle and have a chat with members they may not have met from the other groups.
See ye all there.

Local Events 6th of May

Curlieu Wheelers were out in force over the Bank holiday weekend participating in different local events. There was a large present of Wheelers at the Local Duathlon In Lough Key Forest Park in association with the Ciara Grehan Foundation.  Well done to fellow club members David Gunning and Roy Kelly and Local Man Tommy Sherdian on the hard work , time and effort than went into the organisation of what has quickly become a hugely anticipated event in the North West.

Congratulations to all Curlieu Wheelers who won the following sections:

First Local Male: Martin Supple
Second Local: Peter Gavigan
Third Local: Alan Tiernan

All displaying fantastic times with Martin having a very strong bike time of 34.43. A great start to the season.

Second Overall Female: Sarah Neary with a great 5km run time of 19.21
Second  Local Junior: Conor Neary ; Definitely one to watch for the future.

Well done to Joan Gardner, Enda Madden, Aileen Madden,Damien Regan, Kiernan O Reilly, Margaret Hayden, Carmel Mc Golderick, Hanora Lavin especially people who have completed there first multi sport event.

Thanks to all marshals who came out from the club to give their time to help out.

Well done to all Wheelers (Ray Hannon, Kevin Mullen, Brian Mc  Mahon, Veronica o Connor, Gavin Brenann and Gary Daly) who completed the  Sligo An Post Tour . They also enjoyed  glorious sunshine  and ideal conditions for the Leisure cycle  covering distances of 60km / 100km/160km.

Weekly Spins:Regular spins continue to run every Tuesday evening from St Josephs Boys National School at 7.00pm sharp. (All levels of fitness will be catered for) and Sunday morning 9.30am Advanced,11.00am intermediate and beginners. ( Same start point)
Routes change every two weeks and will be posted on http://curlieuwheelers.blogspot.com/ or find us on facebook or email curlieuwheelerscc@gmail.com for more information.

Training time trials take place on Thursday the 17th at 7.00pm at the(Doon turn off at East Brothers)in  the direction of Sligo on the main N4. It will be 10km distance. For more details email the above address.

All new members are welcome please contact us to find out more information

The Eire Og Summer Cycling League 9/5/2012

The Eire Og Summer Cycling League kicks off tonight; sign on is from 6pm at Carraroe.  Good luck to all racing!!

Eire Og Cycling Club will be holding a summer league series of races in Sligo this year. The league is open to cyclists from all cycling & triathlon clubs in Sligo and the surrounding areas. Riders must have a minimum of a club competition license in order to take part in the league, otherwise they will have to purchase a 1 day license.
The league will consist of 6 events with 5 to count towards the overall and points awarded for marshall duties.
Dates for the races are as follows:  venues will be listed shortly.  Carraroe, sign on from 6 - 6:45. Race start at 7. (More details on older blogs)

Wednesday 9th May               Wednesday 30th May
Wednesday 6th June
Wednesday 27th June
Wednesday 11th July
Wednesday 18th July
cing.

Training Time Trials Thursday 10th/5/2012

Training time trials will take place again this Thursday eve at 7.00pm sharp / same start point as last week from Doon Boyle (The turn off the main N4 for Doon Shore/ Corrigeenroe) Meeting point at the  Boys National School Abbeytown at 6.30pm to cycle out to start point and warm up. Can Time keeepers be there at 6.40pm for de-briefing. If you are cycling direct to the start point please give your self adequate time as training starts at 7pm sharp. Email Aaron at curlieuwheelerscc@gmail.com to get start times. Same distance as last week 8km and next week it will move to 10km. Great numbers out the last few weeks so lets keep that up.  See everyone Thursday!

No helmet .. No spin ... No excuse!!