Harbour Estate 30th July

Every week seems to bring a new legend to the party, with the crew able to offer a warm welcome to Fiona McCrystal for her first outing tonight. Fiona misunderstood the concept of a TT, proudly proclaiming that she was just out for a wee spin... needless to say it didn’t take her competitive spirit long to kick in and go full throttle! Welcome to the joyous pain of the time trial!

Vaughan led the posse home tonight in typically blistering fashion, followed home by the Conor’s McGandy and Preshaw - whatever happened to the Preshaw - Pollock rivalry?

Emma used the motivation of having Michelle start ahead of her to take the ladies honours.

Mezczyzni
Vaughan P - 30:48
Conor Mc - 31:02
Conor P - 33:15
Glen P - 34:09
John McC - 34:48
Mark G - 35:40
Peter K - 36:00
Peter Mc - 37:09
Ryan C - 40:50
Gary H - 41:17

Kobieti
Emma. - 37:40
Michelle - 38:54
Fiona - 45:05

Thanks to Steve and John for marshalling duties and to Ronnie for taking the action shots.

Killynure - 23rd July 2019

Back to "Hillynure" after a two week recess and nine eager beavers turned up to bath in the pleasant sunshine.

Nicola undertook timekeeping duties for the first time. Not one to settle on what has gone before she made the suggestion that riders could shout their own times at the finish. Oh what a night of PBs that would have been. In the end the traditional way of timekeeping was taken and once the discovery made that mins only update every 60 seconds it was plain sailing. Everyone got home safety and got a pretty accurate time (thanks to the use of mobile phone technology for doing time subtraction - and to think astronauts made it to the moon 50 years ago with less computing power!).

Worthy call out to Stevo (ex-QUBTRI, ex-Invictus) who turned up from nowhere and posted a solid time on a road bike.

Keep on movin' 
Keep climbin' 
Keep the faith, baby 
It's all about — it's all about the climb 
- Miley C

Results

Vaughan    20.02
Stevo      21.06
Conor P    22.43
Adam       23.39
Ronnie     23.45
Mark G     24.02
Peter McG  24.28
Michelle   25.45
Emma K     26.28

Thanks to time keepers Nicola and Mal.

Legends Duathlon July 2

A nervous night for the organisers bringing the inaugural outing of the Legends Duathlon.. Happy to say that there were plenty of useful ideas from all to help the event run pretty well.

Despite some last minute changes to the plan to the ensure safety, the competitors, sorry, the training participants, coped well with the challenges that came. Peter Morrison had a ding dong battle with John Connaghan with Peter just about coming out on top by just 48 seconds.

The battle for third was no less intense with Olympians, Mark Gormley, John McCullough and Ronnie Smart all appearing in transition after the bike lap within 30 seconds of each other. Mark eventually came out on top to claim the final podium spot. (Unsubstantiated allegations of drafting were made!)

Ryan Campbell was comfortably in 6th spot a couple of minutes of the next bunch of closely matched competitors; 1 minute separated Emma Kerr, Peter McGuckin and Michelle McCoy with some remarkably consistent running from Emma and Michelle in particular. Desi also showed some consistent running pace as well, coming home just behind.

Congrats to Emma McWilliams who chose our first duathlon to make her first appearance! Challenges don’t much bigger than that.

Thanks to Aidan and Nicola for helping Gary keep it all ticking over.

Name.            1st Lap.     2nd Lap.    Bike Lap.        3rd Lap.      Total
Peter M.        6:38.           6:47.          21:05.             7:30.             42:00
John C.          6:44.           6:48.          22:01.             7:15.             42:48
Mark G.         6:48.          7:05.          24:26.              8:10.             46:29
John McC.    7:24.           7:30.          23:38.              8:12.             46:44
Ronnie S.       7:35.           7:40.          23:04.              8:42.             47:01
Ryan C.          7:28.           7:28.          25:13.              8:13.             48:21
Emma K.        8:14.           8:20.          24:58.              8:39.             50:11
Peter McG.     7:36.           7:54.          26:03.              9:18.             50:41
Michelle McC. 8:09.           8:13.          26:27.              8:33.             51:11
Desi McH.       9:05.            9:05.          24:15.             9:47.              52:12
Emma McW.   9:14.            9:28.          29:38.              10:36.           58:56

Two weeks summer break now. Hope the sun remembers to come out and play!