25 Results for tag: leisure cycling
This is the second part on how to climb better for sportif and touring events
Seated or Standing?
Stay mostly seated as standing generally uses more energy and should be kept for harder efforts, steeper sections and stretching out on a long climb. When you get out of the saddle beware of "kick-back". This is when you ...
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If you think your Ireland's answer Marco Pantani then this guide may not be for you. It's an easy guide to climbing better for people who struggle in the hills.
In many Irish leisure events there are two main factors that make it a "challenge". That is distance and hills. All events, no matter how enjoyable, tend to ...
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While temperatures had dropped considerably it didn’t deter the hardy annuals from taking in some good quality climbing.(Richie, Paul, Michael, Martin and myself.) The first assent of the day was Kilmashogue Lane, scene of the 2011 National Hill Climb Championships. This set the scene for the remainder of the spin!!
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Back in my day Parkvale was the starting point for our weekly spins so it was great to get back to the Southside of the city to go bike riding down into Wicklow. It was a fine spring morning and a large number of riders turned up for a stretch of the legs. After the usual preliminaries and small talk the groups split into ...
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Some weekends the weather gods are with you. Most of us crawled out of bed early on Saturday morning last and thought oh $%^&. It was cold, wet, dark,and yet nobody bailed and all who had agreed to make the trip south for the annual training weekend showed up in plenty of time at our South Wexford bolt hole. We got bikes ...
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After last week's great turnout for the Pre-spin Marshalling course, we once again met in the spiritual home of St. Tiernan's Cycling and Adventure Club. It was an unexpectedly nice morning as we assembled in Park Vale. After belting over, I was too out of breath to participate on the route discussion and was delighted to ...
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Well what a day for a bike ride. Cool, sunny and dry. Perfect for Wicklow hills. After Mr. Hayden gave a club briefing on appropriate marshalling for the inter club league, the touring or step up group rolled for Enniskerry with a plan to press on to Kilmacanogue and home via Bray. Robbie and Charlie proposed an alternat...
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With quite a few riders crying off before Saturday it was not expected that the groups would be as large as last week. However 13 riders assembled outside the Maldron with some old and new faces making up for the missing in action. 10 riders therefore formed the racing group, while Mick Moore led out 3 in the recently ...
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