Swords Cycling Club Summer
Newsletter
Club Leisure Tour
The annual club tour will take place on June 3rd
from Fingallians GAA Club. Registration is at 8.30 a.m.,
departing at 9.00 a.m. Registration fee will be
€15. There will be a 90 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). In addition there will be refreshments
and shower facilities available after the tour in
Fingallians GAA Club. I have also organised a lead car
and motorbikes to provide assistance in relation to road
crossings etc.
See the club website for details of the route at www.swordscc.com
Please come along and support this event. There were
sixty ‘cyclists’ on the tour last year so a
good turnout is expected as it is good preparation for
the wicklow 200 which takes place on June 10th.
Weekend Away:
Our annual weekend away takes place on Saturday 20th and
Sunday 21st of October. The venue this year is Glencarn
Hotel, Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan. It seems to be a good
venue with modern leisure facilities etc. The cost per
person for evening meal, bed and breakfast is €75.
The payment arrangements this year is that you pay the
hotel directly when checking out rather than sending me
cheques etc. All you have to do over the next few months
is let me know if you are going as the number of places
is limited to 30.
You can contact, Martin Joyce at 086 3809039.
Season so far.........
This season has been marked with the rise of a new star
in the Swords colours and very special start to the
season for one of it’s eternal ones. Firstly Colm
Cassidy made a meteoric rise through the C rankings with
2 wins before using his TT ability to set uo a great
placing in the Gorey and taking the TT stage in the
Corkman. Most remakable of his achievements to date in my
opinion though, was taking his Club C/ship TT in what
turned out to be a course record for previous league
events that has stood since 2000 and which was set by
Time Trial ‘supremo’ Aidan Hammond. An
achievement made all the more remarkable considering the
pouring rain.
Supervet Sean Lally has
notched up 6 road victories and a 25 Mile C/ship in the
IVCA is superb displays of tactics, hard riding and
powerful sprinting while the clubs star climber, and most
improved rider last year, rode an excellent Shay Elliot,
taking the 1st B prize. Meanwhile Sean Rock
& Stephen Halpin are gaining invaluable experience in
their progression to the next level, riding with the Sean
Kelly team in Belgium and most recently rode the tour of
Turkey with the men from Stamullen. Most recently we are
seeing a new direction for Swords with new member David
O’Neill notching up top 5 results in Mountainbike
racing, while the track season has had a slightly weather
induced delay, and where we will soon see powerful track
sprinter Colm Sevastopulo do his thing!!!
We as a club are very
pleased to welcome so many new members in all categories
and we hope that our club league improves you all and
helps you all achieve what you are cabable of. It was
also quite pleasing to see so many father & son
combinations at the TT last week and its no coincidence
that our potential & current superstars take the lead
from the dads –afterall first step is beating the
dad --- next step world domination!!!!!!!
CALL
TO ARMS
The FBD RÁS to finish in Skerries again in 2007
Hi Folks,
Following a fantastic finish to the FBD RÁS in 2006,
Skerries has again been invited to host the final stage.
I hope you will all agree with me when I say what a
fantastic day Sunday 28th May last year was when the FBD
RAS came to Skerries great day with a Carnival atmosphere
that greeted the RAS riders as they entered Skerries in
the closest ever finish in the 53 year history of the RAS.
By all accounts based on feedback we have received from
the RAS organisation and the cycling racing fraternity
the "Skerries Stage End Finish" is being spoken
of as one of the best ever stage end finishes, needless
to say this great would not have been possible without
your support and that of the Swords Cycling Club.
I know that both the RAS organisation and the riders were
blown-way with the fantastic reception they received with
hundreds of people cheering them on when they reached the
"Black Hills" but even more when the riders
raced through the main street (Strand Street) with crowds
in excess of three thousand standing four and five deep
on the pavement cheering on these "Men of the RAS"
again you were responsible for helping this to come about
It is a credit to you and our club Swords CC the
volunteers that we have been asked to host the Final
again this year.
In order to make this happen we need you to come out and
help again, please leave Sunday 27th May'2007 free to
give us the help and support we need to make this day
another GREAT success.
Please
contact Pat Halpin or Paul Deans at the following :-
Pat Halpin email @ pathal@eircom.net or telephone 086 2394695
Paul Deans email @ paul.deans@bif.ie or telephone 086 2394695
Attention
Ladies:
Hope you are all well. Just to let you know that there
will be a seperate races for the ladies for the Club
Championships on Wednesday 27th June. This year we are
lucky to have a lot of ladies in the club so that we can
have a seperate race. The ladies will do two and a half
laps of the Ballyboughal Corduff Circuit. (The lads will
be doing three and a half.) We will be given a head start
to get over the Nag's Head hill before the lads catch us.
Hope to see you there! Only Swords CC riders can do this
race. If you know of any friends that could help with the
marshalling on the night, please let me know. Regards,
Bernie
BTW congrats and welcome to Louise Harlwich on some great
results recently and to Norah Daly who currently leads
the Ladies points series
Next few League
Events
30th May Corduff CP (3 Laps) Sign on & park at GAA
Club Ballyboughal
Sean Lally Ron O'Rourke,Thomas Smyth, Norah Daly, Kevin
McFeely, Kevin Morrison, Conor McGrane,
6th June Oldtown CP (3
Laps ) Sign on & park at Oldtown Church
Martin Joyce Thomas Markham, Ken Brennan, Jim Ludden,
Sean Halpin, Patrick O'Dwyer, Dave Blake
13th June Bog of the
Ring (5 Laps) Sign on & park at Ring Commons Sports
Centre
Pat Halpin Thomas Cleary, Neil Kelly, Paul Kelly, Neil O'Brien,
Fergus Ryan, Chris McGuirk Alan Sheppard
20th June Oldtown CP
Sign on & park at Oldtown Church
Aidan McClean Kevin Donagher, Mick Rock, Fran Rooney,
David O'Neill, Eamonn O'Murchu, Nicholas Sparks
www.swordscc.com
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