McNally Swords Cycling Club
Late Summer Edition
2006
Club Leisure Tour
The annual club tour will take place on
September 3rd from Fingallians GAA Club.
Registration is at 8.30am, departing at 9.00 a.m.
There will be an 80 and 50 mile route as in previous
years. The tour follows the same itinerary as the last
few years with a tea stop in Jullianstown (The Old Mill
Hotel).
<Details of route>
Weekend Away:
Our annual weekend away takes place on Saturday 21st
and Sunday 22nd of October. The venue
this year is Bloomfield House Hotel which is situated
just outside Mullingar. The cost per person for evening
meal, bed and breakfast is €80. A route has yet to
be organised for those wishing to drive to the hotel and
then cycle. Anyone wishing to reserve a place should do
so as soon as possible as I have booked for 30 people.
Cheques should be made payable to Bloomfield House Hotel
and forwarded to me Martin Joyce, 14 Seabury View,
Malahide, Co. Dublin. Phone 086 3809039.
Club Spins:
The weekly club spins continue to be the following times:
Thursday (tea stop) - 9.15am (Lord Mayors) - Distance 60
miles
Saturday - 8.30am (Blakes Cross)- Distance 50miles approx
Saturday (tea stop) - 9.00am (Lord Mayors) - Distance 50/60
miles
Sunday - 9.15am (Lord Mayors) - Distance 60 miles approx
More info on Noticeboard page on Club website
Photo courtesy of Triathlon Ireland
Caroline Kearney
The shock of Carolines untimely passing will
remain with us for some time to come. She was a member of
our club since she was 16 and her name appears many times
on our Club TT Trophies. She was well respected by all
accross the sporting divide as a top class athelete. We
considered her very much one of our own and although we
took great pride in her Triathlon achievements many of us
wished she would stick to cycling and we were sure we
would have a national Ladies Champ in our Club. Her loss
is still felt deeply by all her friends, training
partners, and by all who cared about her in our club and
across the many clubs of which her diverse sporting
disciplines brought her. She will be the inspiration for
many young Triatheletes for many years to come (Hugh
Byrne)
(The photo above was taken by Arthur O'Donnell -
one of the Belpark Tri club and is from one of this years
Duathlon Series in the Phoenix Park this year)
Racing update:
Brian Crinion - season report
This month I am going to give the limelight to Swords
Club member & Triathlete, Brian Crinion. He had some
illness problems during the early season, but under the
direction of Dr Conor McGrane made a full recovery. Also
on Conor’s advice he didn't push himself too hard on
his comeback, and now is in flying form as his recent
results show.
On the 25th of June he placed 5th in the 'Hell of the
West Triathlon..Everyone's allowed to have a bad day!!!!
.Then on the 8th July he placed 6th in Athlone. This was an
elite race with the draft legal format.This format suits
the top swimmers and works against the reasonable
swimmers, like Brian, as you end up chasing a well
organised pack. The next week he won the Ballina
Triathlon in a sprint finish, and was 2nd the following
week in Bray. August started with a 3rd place in the
Dublin City Duathlon followed by a DNF in the Castwellan
Tri. As he put it "My first dnf in years,
the zip wasn't there so stopped trying to flog a
dead horse and saved it for the next weekend".
This turned out to be a wise move as he took back to back
wins on the 12th & 13th of August. A remarkable
feat, made all the more remarkable as he beat 3 full time
atheletes in the process!
His stats for the year so far are:
Races: 15 Wins: 4 (Plus the Limerick Tri, where he
was penalised for not having 6 toes); 2nd: 4; 3rd: 2; 5th:
1; 6th: 1; DNF: 1& one 17th place in the Home Nations
Duathlon Champs.
"To be honest, I'm surprised to be still racing,
giving how broken I felt in April. I going to
finish my season with the Midland Duathlon in September.
I'm going to give the European Duathlon Champs in Italy a
miss as I don't think I'll last till October, plus my
first cousin is getting married the same day".
Where to now?
August: Lough Neagh Tri (top 3 aim)
September P&O Tri (only a maybe)
Dublin Tri (top 3 aim)
Mullingar Duathlon (top 3 aim)
Plus there's the ongoing pipe dream of bringing
home 20 race wins for Belpark Tri club in the clubs 20th
anniversary, currently we're at 18.
The nearest rival club at 10". (Hugh
Byrne)
Extra event (not counting towards
League)
Club C/ship 25 Mile TT
Saturday 2nd September : Batterstown
Sign on 10.30 for 11am start
Visitors welcome
<Details
of course>
Anyone available to stewart on the
day please e-mail Hugh
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