Cycling Events 2001

Round 1 Batterstown:

There was over a 100 starters and everybody had to walk and cycle through disinfectant mats before and after the start. It was a damp misty day and the 1st group of vets and juniors had 6 mins on the next group. This group was supposed to be 2nd cats only but the race were short on bodies and the 1st cats went with them. It will not be the same next week. The race was 50 miles long, with three 15 mile circuts of the Drumree/Dorreys Forge/Mullagh circuit. In the first group, Jim Cassidy, Garda Motor World and Sean Bracken Usher I.R.C. , left the group after 2 miles and kept going until they were caught on the 3rd assent of Dorreys Forge by Shane Baker, Usher I.R.C and Andrew Donnellon, Dublin Wheelers. Bracken hung onto these two. In pursuit at 15 seconds were Morgan Fox and Vincent Gleeson, West Clare C.C. This pair caught up just after Mullagh and with 5 miles to go , they attacked and left the other three. Fox won from Gleeson, with Baker 3rd at 20 seconds and Brian Lennon, St.Tiernan's, leading in the bunch at a minute

1st Morgan Fox Athlone 50 miles in 1hr 59mins 30secs 2nd Vincent Gleeson West Clare C.C. S.T. 3rd Shane Baker Usher I.R.C. @ 20 secs 4th Sean Bracken Usher I.R.C. @ 25 secs 5th Andrew Donnellon Dublin Wheelers S.T. 6th Brian Lennon St.Tiernan's 1 min 7th David Lane U.C.D. S.T. 8th Paul Milligan Omagh Wheelers S.T. 9th Finn O'Sullivan Kildare/Newbridge C.C. S.T. 10th Rob Looby Kildare/Newbridge C.C. S.T.

1st Senior B - Ciaran Farrell Ravens C.C. 1st Junior Stephan Enwright Usher I.R.C 2nd John Nolan Navan 3rd Jim Maguire Staggs Lucan 1st Vet Tosh Lavery Garda Motorway

League Overall 1st Sean Bracken 16 pts 2nd Morgan Fox 12pts 3rd Vincent Gleeson 11pts 4th Shane Baker 10pts 5th Andrew Donnellon 8pts 6th Brian Lennon 7pts 7th David Lane 6pts 8th Paul Milligan 5pts 9th Finn O'Sullivan 4pts 10th Rob Looby 3pts

Round 2 Roundwood:

There was about a100 starters for the race. It was 7 laps of a 6.5 mile circuit. The rain eased off for the start and it turned out to be dry and sunny. The laps had a drag in it after Annamoe and the circuit all round was very testing and dead. The vets and juniors had 4 mins on the B bunch and the A,s were another 2 behind. The A,s caught the B bunch on the start of the 4th lap but the vets and juniors were riding well and had a gap of about 2 mins.On the 6th lap Sean Bracken fell off on a dodgey corner and the group lost some ground. On the last lap a leading group of 8 riders were away and at the bell the gap was 20 secs behind.They caught up on the drag out of Annamoe and just after that Kieron Mc Mahon and Karl Donnelly broke away. They were clear by 10 secs at the finish and Mc Mahon won easily.The rest were taken in by the new league leader Shane Baker with Tim Cassidy winning the sprint from Brian Lennon.

1st Ciaran Mc Mahon unnattached 1 hr 50 mins 20 secs 45mile 2nd Karl Donnelly Usher I.R.C. S.T. 3rd Shane Baker UsherI.R.C. @ 10 secs 4th Tim Cassidy Usher I.R.C. st 5th Brian Lennon ST.Tiernans st 6th Willie Byrne GSM Racing Team st 7th Vincent Gleeson West Clare CC st 8th Paul Healion Usher IRC st 9rh David Rawlins Usher I.R.C. st 10th Sean Lally Mc Nally Swords st

Round 3 CLONEE:

There was 110 starters today .The race was handicapped in 3 groups with 5mins seperating each group.It was 3 laps around the Drumree /Dunsany and Warrenstown circuit.About 16 started in the first group and at the start of lap two this was down to 8 riders.This group rode well and consistanly .The B group were not making much headway and on the last lap were still 3mins behind . The A Group rode better and had the B's in sight.With 10 mile to go the 1st group still had 2.30mins.In Batterstown Stephen Enright attacked and held on to the finish just before Black Bull.With a half to go James Lattimore clipped off for 2nd with Tosh Lavery winning the sprint for third.Sean Bracken won the league overall from Enright and Lattimore.The league had been designed to promote B racing but not one B scored a point.The other races were not handicapped properly however and this did not help matters .So its back to the drawing board for next year.Any ideas would be welcome send them to sbracken@eircom.net

Sean Bracken League Co-ordinator Leinster Cycling Federation.

1st Stephen Enright Usher I.R.C. 1Hr 48 MINS 30SEC 2nd James Lattimore Usher I.R.C. @20sec 3RD Tosh Lavery Garda @25sec 4th Sean Bracken Usher I.R.C. s.t. 5th Seamus Kennedy Navan cc s.t 6th Terry Ferris Dublin Whls s.t. 7th Hughie Davis Eagle cc s.t. 8th Sean Lally Mc Nallys s.t.

Final positions: 

Stephen Enright 2nd, Tom Keenan LCF President and League winner Sean Bracken 

POINTS 1st 10pts 6th 5pts 2nd 9pts 7th 4pts 3rd 8pts 8th 3pts 4th 7pts 9th 2pts 5th 6pts 10th 1pt

The category you sign on at the start of year will stay with you till end, unless the licence that you got at the start was given to you by mistake The overall prizes i.e. 1st to 8th can be won by any category. All riders must start the course to qualify for points and prizes . Prizes on the day are up to the promoting clubs. Riders finishing on the same points overall will be separated by better placing. All races are handicapped so that every rider has a chance of winning. Double points will be awarded to every category except sen1 for a top 10 placing. Also all riders that start and sign on the race sheet will get a further 2 points. It is important that riders in the handicapped groups ride to the best of their ability.