Archive for April, 2011
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novice racing me…..
A few hardy souls ventured south last night for the first of the Slaney CC novices races on the nice quiet 4.7 mile Davidstown circuit. The course has no climbs too mention and juts 2 left hand bends, so it really couldn’t be any safer. At the helm was of course Liam Ruth and Pat [...]
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Sprocket Rocket….
Mick Considine has been working hard at promoting the Subway Sprocket Rocket courses around schools in Wicklow. In total he has trained over 150 kids so far and counting. The course has just started in Ballymoney with another 20 kids taking part for their easter break. The club has plans in the pipeline to roll [...]
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Sprint design inc. summer league 2011
The format of the 2011 Sprint Design Summer League is as follows:
Wednesday 1st of June 2011.. 7pm The Monument Gorey, 2 laps of Craanford.
Wednesday 8th of June 2011.. 7pm Toss Byrnes, 2 laps of old N11.
Wednesday 15th of June 2011 7.15pm Old Rugby club road Arklow, 1hr Criterium.
Wednesday 22nd of June 2011..7pm The Monument Gorey, [...] -
3 days with the man from ronseal…..
The annual pilgrimage to Dublin for the Gorey 3 day started early last saturday morning, with myself been collected at the monument by Eoin O’Shea. Waiting there also was Carrick Wheelers Kevin Shelly. We piled into Eoin’s mammy wagon and headed to the stage start.Along side us was Martin Mazjeski… or as he became known [...]
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Wedding bells…
Belated wishes to the new Mr and Mrs Ryan from Ballyyoughter , Sarah a native of Bray and Kevin (Club member and MTB’er) native of Limerick who meet each other while teaching in Wicklow tied the knot last week in Tara Hill and had a reception in the Ashdown hotel. They have gone off for [...]
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Slaney novice races….
4 riders headed south for the first of the Slaney cc novices races…. Gerry, myself, Gary Walsh and club guest Paul O’Shea. The first night was a 4.71 mile TT to decide what groups best to put in the riders for next week. A strong ride from veteran cyclists Stephen Kelly saw him the only [...]
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Gorey 3 day
SERC has 2 riders in this years Gorey 3 Day, unfortunatly John Maguire, Garrett Mc Cabe and Derrick Evans will not be part taking because of work and other training commitments. The club is fully behind Anthony Mills and County Champ Tony Breen Jnr for the weekend. The team will be supported by Derek Webb [...]
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Ian Lacey epic voyage
On July 15th 2011, Ian Lacey from Gorey, Co. Wexford will begin his bicycle challenge with an American friend Lee Saville from northern Alaska to southern Argentina. This cycle – which is completely unsupported – will take 350 days and they aim to raise €100,000 for the Carer’s Association of Ireland, who provide in-home respite [...]
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Les Deux Michaels….
Dublin man and veteran cyclist, Michael Sheil and Gorey native and long-term Arklow resident. Michael Considine hope to be the first two members from the club to complete the very prestigious Paris Brest Paris epic cycle in August of this year. The Paris Brest Paris event is a test of resilience and endurance [...]
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Copper coast delight…
3 members of SERC made the trek to Waterford this saturday to complete the 100km Copper Coast classic held by Comergh CC. Myself, Gerry and Martin Askins left at 7.30 for the drive to the Waterford Sports centre for sign on. At a coffee stop in New Ross we bumped into Slaney cc Stephen Kelly [...]
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Ironman training
Hi all,
Just thought I may put up a post about the training myself and Derrick are doing for the Ironman we are doing in Roth Germany in July. It is amazing how difficult it is to get the hours up when you are training for three disciplines. When training for the Gorey 3 day it [...] -
Slaney novice races…..
Slaney are running Novice, A4 and U12/14/16 league again this year starting next Wednesday on the Davidstown Circuit. The first event is a TT while the following events will be road races. The TT is one lap (about 4.5miles) while the road races are 4 or maybe 5 laps (about 18 or 22.5miles). The league [...]
